Births
1867 - Charles Dillon Perrine, American-born astronomer
1902 - Karl Popper, Austrian-born philosopher
1904 - Pavel Alekseyevich Cherenkov, Russian physicist, Nobel laureate
1915 - Charles Townes, American physicist, Nobel laureate
1925 - Baruch S. Blumberg, American scientist, Nobel laureate
Deaths
1869 - Jan Evangelista PurkynÄ, Czech anatomist
1930 - Allvar Gullstrand, Swedish ophthalmologist, Nobel laureate
1968 - Otto Hahn, German chemist, Nobel laureate
2000 - Abraham Pais, Dutch-born American physicist, science historian, and biographer of Albert Einstein.
2002 - Archer John Porter Martin, English chemist, Nobel laureate
2004 - Francis Crick, English molecular biologist, Nobel laureate
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