- 1436 – Birth of mathematician Regiomontanus
- 1843 – Death of poet Friedrich Hölderlin
- 1850 – Birth of physicist Karl Ferdinand Braun, winner of the 1909 Nobel Prize in Physics
- 1944 – D-Day: The Battle of Normandy begins
- 1946 – Death of dramatist Gerhart Hauptmann, winner of the 1912 Nobel Prize in Literature