March 7th
1625 - Death of Johann Bayer, German astronomer
1788 - Birth of Antoine César Becquerel, French physicist
1792 - Birth of John Herschel, English mathematician and astronomer
1837 - Birth of Henry Draper, American physician and astronomer
1857 - Birth of Julius Wagner-Jauregg, Austrian neuroscientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
1904 - Death of Ferdinand André Fouqué, French geologist
1922 - Birth of Olga Aleksandrovna Ladyzhenskaya, Russian mathematician
1928 - Death of Robert Abbe, American surgeon
1938 - Birth of David Baltimore, American biologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
1958 - Birth of Alan Hale, American astronomer
1973 - Comet Kohoutek is discovered by Luboš Kohoutek.
1997 - Death of Edward Mills Purcell, Physicist and Nobel Prize laureate
I keep wanting to tell you, and somehow always missing to do so, how much appreciate you doing this every morning.
I know my Art History Major-ness is going to come through in this comment, but i just wanted to add: John Herschel may have been a mathematician and astronomer, but he also did a lot of stuff for photography, including coining the name "photography" and "positive" & "negative" (as in the negative of a photo, and the positive print). Just FYI :)