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Max von Laue

• 1889 - Birth of resistance fighter Johanna Kirchner
• 1918 - Birth of oceanographer and ecologist Elisabeth Mann-Borgese
• 1960 - Death of physicist Max von Laue, recipient of the 1914 Nobel Prize in Physics
• 1964 - Death of bacteriologist and pathologist Gerhard Domagk, who declined the 1939 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine under pressure of Nazi authorities
• 1974 - East German spy Günter Guillaume is arrested
• 1982 - Nicole becomes the first German candidate to win the Eurovision Song Contest