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- 1830 - Birth of writer Paul Heyse, winner of the 1910 Nobel Prize in Literature
- 1821 - Birth of mathematician Eduard Heine
- 1900 - Death of mathematician Elwin Bruno Christoffel
- 1963 - Birth of football referee Markus Merk
- 1991 - Germany regains full sovereignty due to the Treaty on the Final Settlement With Respect to Germany