Births
1602 - Otto von Guericke, German physicist
1762 - Pierre André Latreille, French entomologist
1886 - Karl von Frisch, Austrian zoologist and Nobel Prize laureate
1889 - Edwin Hubble, American astronomer
1910 - Willem Jacob van Stockum, Dutch physicist
1926 - Andrzej W. Schally, Polish-born endocrinologist and Nobel Prize laureate
Deaths
1704 - Charles Plumier, French botanist
1778 - Francesco Cetti, Italian scientist
1934 - Willem de Sitter, Dutch scientist
1945 - Francis William Aston, British chemist and Nobel Prize laureate
1976 - Trofim Lysenko, Stalinist biologist
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Interesting lineup! Von Frisch, Hubble and Lysenko....