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![Athanasius Kircher](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a5/Athanasius_Kircher.jpg/100px-Athanasius_Kircher.jpg)
- 1602 - Birth of Jesuit scholar Athanasius Kircher
- 1772 - Birth of romantic author Novalis (Friedrich von Hardenberg)
- 1886 - Birth of author Gottfried Benn
- 1892 - Birth of Red Baron Manfred von Richthofen
- 1945 - Capitulation of German forces in Berlin after the Battle of Berlin