Births
1640 - Robert Plot, English naturalist
1662 - Francesco Bianchini, Italian philosopher and scientist
1724 - Franz Aepinus, German scientist
1867 - Kristian Birkeland, Norwegian explorer and scientist
1923 - Philip Warren Anderson, American physicist and Nobel Prize laureate
Deaths
1565 - Conrad Gessner, Swiss naturalist
1783 - Pehr Wilhelm Wargentin, Swedish astronomer
1868 - Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius, German botanist
1895 - Anyos Jedlik, Hungarian physicist
1919 - Woldemar Voigt, German physicist
1930 - Fritz Pregl, Slovenian/Austrian chemist and Nobel Prize laureate
1935 - Victor Grignard, French chemist and Nobel Prize laureate
1955 - Egas Moniz, Portuguese neurosurgeon and Nobel Prize laureate
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