February 8th
1677 - Birth of Jacques Cassini, French astronomer
1700 - Birth of Daniel Bernoulli, Dutch-born mathematician
1807 - Birth of Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins, English naturalist
1834 - Birth of Dmitri Mendeleyev, Russian chemist
1856 - Death of Agostino Bassi, Italian entomologist
1907 - Death of Hendrik Willem Bakhuis Roozeboom, Dutch chemist
1957 - Death of John von Neumann, Hungarian-born mathematician and physicist
1975 - Death of Robert Robinson, British chemist and Nobel Prize laureate
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