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![Johann Heinrich von Mädler](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d8/Johann_Heinrich_M%C3%A4dler.jpg/120px-Johann_Heinrich_M%C3%A4dler.jpg)
- 1794 – Birth of astronomer Johann Heinrich von Mädler
- 1880 – Birth of historian Oswald Spengler, best known for The Decline of the West
- 1933 – Birth of conductor Helmuth Rilling
- 1934 – Synod of the Confessing Church in Barmen starts, leading to the Barmen declaration
- 1994 – Death of East German leader Erich Honecker