- 1792 – Death of Sturm und Drang writer Jakob Michael Reinhold Lenz
- 1875 – Death of romantic poet Eduard Mörike
- 1877 – Birth of chemist Heinrich Otto Wieland, winner of the 1927 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
- 1882 – Birth of comedian Karl Valentin
- 1942 – Nazi leader Reinhard Heydrich is assassinated in Operation Anthropoid