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Births
1657 – Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle, French scientist
1839 – Josiah Willard Gibbs, American physicist
1898 – Leó Szilárd, Hungarian-born physicist
1908 – Vivian Ernest Fuchs, English geologist
Deaths
1868 – Léon Foucault, French astronomer
1973 – Hans D Jensen, German physicist and Nobel Prize laureate
1976 – Alexander Lippisch, German scientist
1978 – James B Conant, American chemist
1991 – Robert W. Holley, American biochemist and Nobel Prize laureate