Births
1625 - Giovanni Domenico Cassini, Italian scientist
1724 - John Smeaton, English civil engineer
1745 - Caspar Wessel, Danish mathematician
1851 - Jacques-Arsène d’Arsonval, French physicist
1860 - Alicia Boole Stott, Irish mathematician
1916 - Francis Crick, English molecular biologist; Nobel laureate
1918 - John D. Roberts, American chemist
1930 - Robert Aumann, German-born Israeli mathematician; Nobel laureate
1936 - Kenneth G. Wilson, American physicist, Nobel laureate
1947 - Eric F. Wieschaus, American biologist, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
Deaths
1835 - Gian Domenico Romagnosi, Italian physicist
1970 - Abraham Maslow, American psychologist