Events
1826 - Samuel Morey patents the internal combustion engine.
Births
1578 - William Harvey, English physician who described the flow of blood though the human body (see above)
1776 - Sophie Germain, French mathematician
1856 - Acacio Gabriel Viegas, Indian physician
1865 - Richard Adolf Zsigmondy, Austrian-born chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
1908 - Abraham Maslow, American psychologist
1919 - Joseph Murray, American surgeon, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
1933 - Claude Cohen-Tannoudji, French physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
1947 - Alain Connes, French mathematician
Deaths
1950 - Charles R. Drew, American physician
1968 - Lev Davidovich Landau, Russian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
