Births
1793 - Henry Schoolcraft, American geographer, geologist, and ethnologist
1892 - Corneille Heymans, Belgian physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate
1914 - Kenneth Richard Norris, Australian entomologist
1928 - Alexander Grothendieck, German mathematician
1930 - Jerome Isaac Friedman, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
1946 - Wubbo Ockels, Dutch physicist and astronaut
Deaths
1794 - Marquis de Condorcet, French mathematician, philosopher, and political scientist
1874 - Peter Andreas Hansen, Danish astronomer
1982 - William Giauque, Canadian chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
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