- 1659 - Death of poet Simon Dach
- 1832 - Birth of artist and poet Wilhelm Busch, author of Max and Moritz
- 1874 - Birth of physicist Johannes Stark, winner of the 1919 Nobel Prize in Physics and supporter of the Deutsche Physik agenda
- 1920 - Birth of politician Richard von Weizsäcker, President of Germany 1984-1994
- 1945 - British forces liberate the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp