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![Georg Wenzeslaus von Knobelsdorff](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8a/Georg_Wenzeslaus_von_Knobelsdorff_1738.jpg/100px-Georg_Wenzeslaus_von_Knobelsdorff_1738.jpg)
- 1699 – Birth of painter and architect Georg Wenzeslaus von Knobelsdorff (pictured)
- 1752 – Birth of author Friedrich Maximilian Klinger
- 1888 – Birth of physicist Otto Stern, winner of the 1943 Nobel Prize in Physics