Births
1529 - Michael Neander, German mathematician and astronomer
1683 - Mark Catesby, English naturalist
1693 - George Edwards, English naturalist
1715 - William Watson, English physician and scientist
1764 - John Abernathy, English surgeon
1934 - Jane Goodall, English zoologist, who since 1960 has been studying chimpanzees at Gombe (Tanzania)
Deaths
1717 - Jacques Ozanam, French mathematician
1827 - Ernst Chladni, German physicist
1932 - Wilhelm Ostwald, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
1998 - Mary Cartwright, English mathematician
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