Events
1675 - King Charles II of England orders the construction of the Royal Greenwich Observatory.
Births
1733 - Jean-Charles de Borda, French mathematician, physicist, political scientist, and sailor
1825 - Thomas Henry Huxley, English scientist (above)
Deaths
1566 - Luca Ghini, Italian physician and botanist
1615 - Adriaan van Roomen, Flemish mathematician
1677 - Isaac Barrow, English mathematician
1859 - Joseph Diaz Gergonne, French mathematician
1972 - Edward Calvin Kendall, American chemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
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