March 21st
Births
1768 - Joseph Fourier, French mathematician
1932 - Walter Gilbert, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
Deaths
1656 - James Ussher, Irish Anglican archbishop who claimed the universe was created in 4004 BCE
1762 - Nicolas Louis de Lacaille, French astronomer
1795 - Giovanni Arduino, Italian geologist
1980 - Peter Stoner, American mathematician, astronomer and Christian apologist
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Correction - Anglican, not Catholic.
And I'll put in a plug for Gould's fascinating piece "Fall in the House of Ussher," available on-line at http://www.stephenjaygould.org/library/gould_house-ussher.html .
Argh! That's what I get for cut and pasting from Wikipedia while not paying attentions. Sheech!