Posted by Births
1852 – Henri Becquerel, French physicist and Nobel Prize laureate
1860 – Niels Ryberg Finsen, Danish physician and Nobel Prize laureate
1916 – Maurice Wilkins, New Zealand-born physicist and Nobel Prize laureate
1923 – Freeman Dyson, English-born American physicist
Deaths
1958 – Wolfgang Ernst Pauli, Austrian-born American physicist and Nobel Prize laureate