Portal:Germany/Anniversaries/August/August 20


 * 1639 – Death of poet Martin Opitz von Boberfeld
 * 1854 – Death of philosopher Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph von Schelling
 * 1915 – Death of scientist Paul Ehrlich, recipient of the 1908 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
 * 1917 – Death of chemist Adolf von Baeyer, recipient of the 1905 Nobel Prize in Chemistry