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2001 – A hydrogen atmosphere is discovered on the extrasolar planet Osiris by the Hubble Space Telescope, the first atmosphere detected on an extrasolar planet.
2005 – The first partial human face transplant is completed in Amiens, France.
Births
1701 – Anders Celsius, Swedish inventor and astronomer
1754 – Georg Forster, German scientist
1857 – Charles Scott Sherrington, British physiologist and Nobel Prize laureate
1903 – Lars Onsager, Norwegian chemist and Nobel Prize laureate
1955 – Bill Nye (The science guy), American engineer and broadcaster
Deaths
1811 – Andrew Meikle, British mechanical engineer
1908 – Jean Albert Gaudry, French geologist
1944 – Leonid Isaakovich Mandelshtam, Russian physicist