- 1789 - Birth of physicist Georg Simon Ohm
- 1920 - Birth of Dorothea Binz, supervisor at Ravensbrück concentration camp
- 1920 - Birth of Traudl Junge, secretary of Adolf Hitler
- 1935 - Adolf Hitler introduces conscription in Germany to form the Wehrmacht
- 1945 - More than 90% of Würzburg is destroyed in an air raid