- 1676 – Death of hymnist Paul Gerhardt
- 1826 – Death of physicist Joseph von Fraunhofer, discoverer of the Fraunhofer lines in the solar spectrum
- 1843 – Death of lyric poet Friedrich Hölderlin
- 1862 – Birth of physicist Philipp Lenard, winner of the 1905 Nobel Prize in Physics and outspoken proponent of Deutsche Physik
- 1951 – Oswald Pohl is executed for war crimes, having been found guilty in the Pohl Trial