![Karl Lehmann](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b9/Karl_kardinal_lehmann.jpg/100px-Karl_kardinal_lehmann.jpg)
- 1925 – Birth of illustrator and caricaturist Hannes Hegen, creator of Mosaik
- 1936 – Birth of Karl Lehmann, Bishop of Mainz and chairman of the Congregation of the German Bishops
- 1950 – Birth of physicist Johannes Georg Bednorz, recipient of the 1987 Nobel Prize in Physics
- 1974 – Helmut Schmidt is elected Chancellor of Germany