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- 1750 – Death of composer Johann Sebastian Bach
- 1804 – Birth of philosopher Ludwig Feuerbach
- 1874 – Birth of philosopher Ernst Cassirer
- 1954 – Birth of mathematician Gerd Faltings, winner of the Fields Medal
- 1968 – Death of chemist Otto Hahn, recipient of the 1944 Nobel Prize in Chemistry