Births
1623 - Blaise Pascal, French mathematician and philosopher
1846 - Antonio Abetti, Italian astronomer
1897 - Cyril Norman Hinshelwood, English chemist, Nobel laureate
1906 - Ernst Boris Chain, German-born biochemist, Nobel laureate
1910 - Paul Flory, American chemist, Nobel laureate
1922 - Aage Niels Bohr, Danish physicist, Nobel laureate
Deaths
1820 - Joseph Banks, English naturalist and botanist
1844 - Ãtienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, French naturalist
1979 - Paul Popenoe, American eugenicist
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