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- 1741 – Birth of poet and physiognomist Johann Kaspar Lavater
- 1787 – Death of composer Christoph Willibald Gluck
- 1862 – Birth of author Gerhart Hauptmann, winner of the 1912 Nobel Prize for Literature
- 1936 – Birth of singer-songwriter and dissident Wolf Biermann
- 1959 – The Social Democratic Party of Germany ratisfies its Godesberg Program, giving up on the ideas of Marxism