Births
1824 - Gustav Kirchhoff, German physicist
1835 - Simon Newcomb, American astronomer and mathematician
1838 - William Henry Perkin, English chemist
1863 - Vladimir Vernadsky, Russian mineralogist
1880 - Henry Drysdale Dakin, British-American biochemist
1881 - Gunnar Nordström, Finnish physicist
1907 - Dorrit Hoffleit, American astronomer
1925 - Leo Esaki, Japanese physicist and Nobel Prize laureate
Deaths
1991 - Ragnar Granit, Finnish neuroscientist and Nobel Prize laureate
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