- 1881 - Birth of chemist Hermann Staudinger, recipient of the 1953 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
- 1882 - Birth of mathematician Emmy Noether (pictured)
- 1900 - Birth of psychoanalyst Erich Fromm
- 1912 - Birth of rocket scientist Wernher von Braun
- 1933 - The Reichstag passes the Enabling Act, making Adolf Hitler dictator of Germany