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