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- 1576 – Death of meistersinger Hans Sachs
- 1863 – Birth of economist and sociologist Werner Sombart
- 1874 – Death of poet August Heinrich Hoffmann von Fallersleben, who wrote Das Lied der Deutschen
- 1919 – Elections for the constitutive assembly drafting the Weimar Constitution take place, the first election in Germany with full women's suffrage
- 1923 – Birth of Markus Wolf, head of the foreign intelligence section Hauptverwaltung Aufklärung of the GDR