Posted by Births
1553 – Prospero Alpini, Italian physician and botanist
1715 – Pierre Charles Le Monnier, French astronomer
1837 – Johannes Diderik van der Waals, Dutch physicist and Nobel Prize laureate
1887 – Henry Moseley, English physicist
1907 – Lars Leksell, Swedish physician
1924 – Colin Macmillan Turnbull, British-born anthropologist
Deaths
1902 – Walter Reed, American bacteriologist
1937 – Jagdish Chandra Bose, Indian physicist
1937 – George Albert Boulenger, Belgian naturalist
November 23, 2007