• 1765 - Birth of philosopher and theologian Franz Xaver von Baader
• 1845 - Birth of physicist Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen, recipient of the 1901 Nobel Prize for Physics
• 1847 - Birth of chemist Otto Wallach, recipient of the 1910 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
• 1871 - Birth of writer Heinrich Mann
• 1886 - Birth of architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe