1901 Birthday Gustav Knuth, Braunschweig Germany, actor, Freddy Unter Fremden 1781 Death Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, writer, dramatist, art critic, Enlightenment era writer, influenced development of German literature, dies at 52 in Braunschweig, Germany 1692 Event Emperor Leopold I names duke Earnest August of Braunschweig, king
