- 1858 – Death of composer Julius Reubke
- 1873 – Birth of pharmacologist Otto Loewi, winner of the 1936 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
- 1970 – Death of Reichsbank president and politician Hjalmar Schacht
- 1971 – Death of mathematician Heinz Hopf
- 1998 – 101 people die in the Eschede train disaster