March 16th
1750 - Birth of Caroline Herschel, German-born English astronomer
1789 - Birth of Georg Simon Ohm, German physicist
1794 - Birth of Ami Boué, Austrian geologist
1859 - Birth of Alexander Stepanovich Popov, Russian physicist
1867 - First publication of an article by Joseph Lister outlining the discovery of antiseptic surgery, in The Lancet.
1918 - Birth of Frederick Reines, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
1925 - Birth of Luis E. Miramontes, Mexican chemist, co-inventor of the combined oral contraceptive pill
1926 - Robert Goddard launches the first liquid-fueled rocket
1935 - Death of John James Richard Macleod, Scottish-born physician and physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate
1937 - Birth of Amos Tversky, Israeli psychologist
1943 - Birth of Ursula Goodenough, Cell Biologist
1966 - Launch of Gemini 8, the 12th manned American space flight and first space docking with the Agena Target Vehicle.
1992 - Death of Yves Rocard, French physicist
1998 - Death of Derek Harold Richard Barton, British chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
