- 1902 - Birth of actor and singer Heinz Rühmann
- 1940 - Birth of Sozialistischer Deutscher Studentenbund leader Rudi Dutschke (pictured)
- 1945 - American troops seize the Ludendorff Bridge at Remagen and begin to cross the Rhine
- 1954 - Death of chemist Otto Diels, recipient of the 1950 Nobel Prize in Chemistry