February 15th
1564 - Birth of Galileo Galilei, Italian astronomer and physicist
1809 Birth of André Dumont, Belgian geologist
1847 - Death of Germinal Pierre Dandelin, Belgian mathematician
1849 - Death of Pierre François Verhulst, Belgian mathematician
1861 - Birth of Charles Edouard Guillaume, French physicist, Nobel Prize Laureate
1873 - Birth of Hans von Euler-Chelpin, German-born chemist, Nobel Prize Laureate
1934 - Birth of Niklaus Wirth, Swiss computer scientist and chief designer of Algol W, Pascal, Modula, Modula-2, and Oberon.
1959 - Death of Owen Willans Richardson, British physicist, Nobel Prize Laureate
1988 - Death of Richard Feynman, American physicist, Nobel Prize Laureate
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