- 1765 - Birth of philosopher and theologian Franz Xaver von Baader
- 1845 - Birth of physicist Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen, recipient of the 1901 Nobel Prize for Physics
- 1847 - Birth of chemist Otto Wallach, recipient of the 1910 Nobel Prize for Chemistry
- 1871 - Birth of writer Heinrich Mann
- 1886 - Birth of architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe