Portal:Germany/Anniversaries/December/December 21


 * 1504 – Death of Bertold von Henneberg-Römhild, Archbishop of Mainz
 * 1917 – Birth of writer Heinrich Böll, winner of the 1972 Nobel Prize for Literature
 * 1935 – Death of journalist and satirist Kurt Tucholsky
 * 1958 – Death of novelist Lion Feuchtwanger
 * 1965 – Birth of politician Cem Özdemir