Events
1807 - The asteroid Vesta is discovered.
1974 - NASA's Mariner 10 becomes the first spaceprobe to fly by Mercury (see above)
Births
1824 - Ludwig Büchner, German philosopher and physician
1873 - Tullio Levi-Civita, Italian mathematician
1927 - John Robert Vane, English pharmacologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
1941 - Joseph Hooton Taylor, Jr., American astrophysicist, Nobel Prize in Physics laureate
1965 - Emilios T. Harlaftis, Greek astrophysicist
Deaths
1772 - Emanuel Swedenborg, Swedish philosopher and mathematician
1873 - Francesco Zantedeschi, Italian physicist
1912 - Edward Adrian Wilson, English physician and naturalist
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