February 16th
1531 - Death of Johannes Stöffler, German mathematician and astronomer
1698 - Birth of Pierre Bouguer, French mathematician
1727 - Birth of Nikolaus Joseph von Jacquin, Austrian scientist
1804 - Birth of Karl Theodor Ernst von Siebold, German physiologist
1822 - Birth of Sir Francis Galton, English explorer. biologist, and eugenicist
1834 - Birth of Ernst Haeckel, German zoologist
1937 - Birth of Yuri Manin, Russian mathematician
1980 - Death of Erich Hückel, German physicist
2001 - Death of William Masters, American gynecologist and sexologist
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