Births
1660 - Hubert Gautier, French scientist and civil engineer
1665 - Giacomo F. Maraldi, French-Italian astronomer
1816 - Charles Frédéric Gerhardt, French chemist
1826 - Karl Gegenbaur, German anatomist
Deaths
1814 - Benjamin Thompson, American physicist
1836 - Claude-Louis Navier, French physicist
1957 - Harald Ulrik Sverdrup, Norwegian meteorologist and oceanographer
1995 - Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, Indian-born astrophysicist, Nobel laureate
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