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Emblem of the Fruitbearing Society

• 1617 – The Fruitbearing Society is founded in Weimar by German scholars and nobility
• 1759 – Death of poet Ewald Christian von Kleist
• 1888 – Death of physicist Rudolf Clausius, who introduced the concept of entropy
• 1979 – Death of test pilot Hanna Reitsch