Births
1759 - William Kirby, English entomologist
1889 - Sadie Delany, American physician
1926 - Masatoshi Koshiba, Japanese physicist and Nobel Prize laureate
Deaths
1710 - Ole Rømer, Danish astronomer
1843 - Gaspard-Gustave Coriolis, French scientist
1935 - Konstantin Eduardovich Tsiolkovsky, Russian rocket scientist
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