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![Philipp Melanchthon](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/47/PhilippMelanchthon.jpg/100px-PhilippMelanchthon.jpg)
- 1497 – Birth of theologian Philip Melanchthon (pictured), a key leader of the Lutheran Reformation
- 1821 – Birth of explorer Heinrich Barth
- 1826 – Birth of poet Joseph Victor von Scheffel