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![Emblem of the Fruitbearing Society](http://upload.luquay.com/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/93/Fruchtbringende.gif/100px-Fruchtbringende.gif)
- 1617 – The Fruitbearing Society is founded in Weimar by German scholars and nobility
- 1759 – Death of poet Ewald Christian von Kleist
- 1888 – Death of physicist Rudolf Clausius, who introduced the concept of entropy
- 1979 – Death of test pilot Hanna Reitsch