March 9th
1564 - Birth of David Fabricius, German astronomer
1758 - Birth of Franz Joseph Gall, German neuroscientist
1851 - Death of Hans Christian Ørsted, Danish physicist
1900 - Birth of Howard Aiken, American computing pioneer
1923 - Birth of Walter Kohn, Austrian-born physicist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry
1934 - Birth of Yuri Gagarin, Soviet cosmonaut
1954 - Death of Eva Ahnert-Rohlfs, German astronomer
1974 - Death of Earl Wilbur Sutherland Jr., American physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate
1983 - Death of Ulf von Euler, Swedish physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate
2006 - Liquid water discovered on Enceladus, the sixth largest moon of Saturn.
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