![Leopold I, Prince of Anhalt-Dessau](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9e/Leopold_I%2C_Prince_of_Anhalt-Dessau.jpeg/100px-Leopold_I%2C_Prince_of_Anhalt-Dessau.jpeg)
- 1676 – Birth of Leopold I, Prince of Anhalt-Dessau, called the Old Dessauer
- 1866 – The Austro-Prussian war ends with a Prussian victory in the Battle of Königgrätz
- 1875 – Birth of surgeon Ferdinand Sauerbruch
- 1932 – Birth of GDR politician Alexander Schalck-Golodkowski