Births
1651 - Ehrenfried Walther von Tschirnhaus, German mathematician
1755 - Samuel Hahnemann, German physician
1762 - Giovanni Aldini, Italian physicist
1887 - Bernardo Houssay, Argentine physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate
1917 - Robert Burns Woodward, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
1927 - Marshall Warren Nirenberg, American scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
Deaths
1813 - Joseph-Louis Lagrange, Italian-born mathematician
1920 - Moritz Cantor, German mathematician
1955 - Teilhard de Chardin, French paleontologist and theologian
1999 - Heinz Fraenkel-Conrat, German-born biochemist
2002 - Yuji Hyakutake, Japanese amateur astronomer, discoverer of Comet Hyakutake (see above)
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