- 1885 – Death of physician Friedrich Gustav Jakob Henle
- 1905 – Birth of physicist Kurt Diebner
- 1934 – Birth of legal scholar Peter Häberle
- 1947 – Birth of Irmgard Möller, member of the Red Army Faction
- 1965 – The Bundesgerichtshof refuses to open a trial against Rudolf Augstein, ending the Spiegel scandal