Births
1845 – Zygmunt Florenty Wróblewski, Polish physicist
1912 – Richard Doll, English epidemiologist
1914 – Richard Laurence Millington Synge, British biochemist and Nobel Prize laureate
Deaths
1792 – Paul Möhring, German physician and scientist
1841 – Johan August Arfwedson, Swedish chemist
1877 – Robert Swinhoe, British naturalist
1957 – Ernst Gräfenberg, German physician and scientist
2005 – Richard Smalley, American chemist and Nobel Prize laureate