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![Günter Grass](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a6/G%C3%BCnter_Grass%2C_2004.jpg/100px-G%C3%BCnter_Grass%2C_2004.jpg)
- 1553 – Death of artist Lucas Cranach the Elder
- 1750 – Death of composer Sylvius Leopold Weiss
- 1906 – The Captain of Köpenick Wilhelm Voigt masquerades as an officer, which makes him famous
- 1927 – Birth of writer Günter Grass, recipient of the 1999 Nobel Prize for Literature
- 1946 – Several major Nazi war criminals are executed following the judgment in the Nuremberg Trials