Births
1673 - Richard Mead, English physician
1722 - Richard Brocklesby, English physician
1858 - Christiaan Eijkman, Dutch physician, Nobel Prize Laureate
1905 - Erwin Chargaff, Austrian biochemist
1912 - Eva Ahnert-Rohlfs, German astronomer
1926 - Aaron Klug, Lithuanian-born chemist, Nobel Prize Laureate
1938 - Branko Stanovnik, Slovenian chemist
Deaths
1851 - Lorenz Oken, German naturalist
1854 - Macedonio Melloni, Italian physicist
1972 - Max Theiler, South African virologist, Nobel Prize Laureate
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