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![Hermann Hesse](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c1/Hermann_Hesse_1927_Photo_Gret_Widmann.jpg/100px-Hermann_Hesse_1927_Photo_Gret_Widmann.jpg)
- 1648 – Birth of composer Johann Michael Bach
- 1896 – Birth of physical chemist Erich Hückel
- 1938 – Birth of football coach Otto Rehhagel
- 1962 – Death of novelist Hermann Hesse, recipient of the 1946 Nobel Prize for Literature