Births
1707 - Carolus Linnaeus, Swedish botanist
1718 - William Hunter, Scottish anatomist
1734 - Franz Anton Mesmer, Austrian physician/hypnotist
1887 - Thoralf Skolem, Norwegian mathematician
1893 - Ulysses S. Grant IV, American geologist and paleontologist
1908 - John Bardeen, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
1917 - Edward Norton Lorenz, American mathematician and meteorologist
1925 - Joshua Lederberg, American molecular biologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
Deaths
1691 - Adrien Auzout, French astronomer
1857 - Augustin Louis Cauchy, French mathematician
1895 - Franz Ernst Neumann, German mineralogist and physicist
2004 - Ramon Margalef, Spanish scientist
Wow - lots of cool people, not just Linnaeus!