- 1878 – Anarchist Karl Nobiling attempts to assassinate Emperor Wilhelm I of Germany
- 1885 – Birth of neuropathologist Hans Gerhard Creutzfeldt
- 1917 – Birth of zoologist and filmmaker Heinz Sielmann
- 1920 – Birth of literary critic and Warsaw Ghetto survivor Marcel Reich-Ranicki
- 1967 – Benno Ohnesorg is shot by a policeman during a demonstration