Births
1875 – Gilbert N. Lewis, American chemist
1905 – Felix Bloch, Swiss physicist and Nobel Prize laureate
1908 – Ilya Frank, Russian physicist and Nobel Prize laureate
Deaths
1581 – Michael Neander, German mathematician and astronomer
1944 – Charles Glover Barkla, English physicist and Nobel Prize laureate
1986 – Edward Adelbert Doisy, American biochemist and Nobel Prize laureate