Portal:Germany/Anniversaries/September/September 21


 * 1792 – Birth of poet Johann Peter Eckermann, best known for his Conversations with Goethe
 * 1860 – Death of philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer
 * 1869 – The first Dresden Semperoper is destroyed by fire
 * 1964 – Death of Otto Grotewohl, Prime Minister of the German Democratic Republic