Events
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
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