- 1733 - Birth of writer and bookseller Christoph Friedrich Nicolai
- 1813 - Birth of dramatist Christian Friedrich Hebbel
- 1858 - Birth of inventor Rudolf Diesel
- 1940 - Hitler and Mussolini meet on the Brenner Pass to publicly celebrate their pact
- 1990 - The first free elections to the Volkskammer are held in the German Democratic Republic