February 4th
1615 - Death of Giovanni Battista della Porta, Italian physicist
1725 - Birth of Dru Drury, English entomologist
1774 - Death of Charles Marie de La Condamine, French mathematician and geographer
1778 - Birth of A. P. de Candolle, Swiss botanist
1846 - Birth of Nikolay Umov, Russian physicist
1875 - Birth of Ludwig Prandtl, German physicist
1896 - Birth of Friedrich Hund, German physicist
1906 - Birth of Clyde Tombaugh, American astronomer
1928 - Death of Hendrik Lorentz, Dutch physicist and Nobel Prize Laureate
1974 - Death of Satyendra Nath Bose, Indian physicist
1987 - Death of Carl Rogers, American psychologist
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