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Events

1923 - Insulin first became generally available for use by diabetics.

Births

1452 - Leonardo da Vinci, Italian Renaissance polymath (above)

1552 - Pietro Cataldi, Italian mathematician

1641 - Robert Sibbald, Scottish physician

1707 - Leonhard Euler, Swiss mathematician

1710 - William Cullen, Scottish physician

1793 - Friedrich Georg Wilhelm von Struve, German astronomer

1794 - Jean Pierre Flourens, French physiologist

1809 - Hermann Grassmann, German mathematician

1874 - George Harrison Shull, American plant geneticist, and Johannes Stark, German physicist, Nobel laureate

1896 - Nikolay Nikolayevich Semyonov, Russian chemist, Nobel laureate

1907 - Nikolaas Tinbergen, Dutch ornithologist, Nobel laureate

1927 - Robert Mills, American physicist

Deaths

1704 - Johann van Waveren Hudde, Dutch mathematician

1764 - Peder Horrebow, Danish astronomer

1765 - Mikhail Lomonosov, Russian scientist

1854 - Arthur Aikin, English chemist, mineralogist, and scientific writer

1993 - John Tuzo Wilson, Canadian geologist

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