- 1811 - Birth of chemist Robert Wilhelm Bunsen
- 1819 - Birth of statesman Prince Chlodwig zu Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst, Chancellor of Germany 1894-1900
- 1917 - Death of physician Emil Adolf von Behring, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
- 1939 - Birth of film director Volker Schlöndorff