Births
1644 - Ole Rømer, Danish astronomer
1773 - Agostino Bassi, Italian entomologist
1798 - Jean-Baptiste Ãlie de Beaumont, French geologist
1839 - Karl Alfred von Zittel, German palaeontologist
1866 - Thomas Hunt Morgan, American geneticist and Nobel Prize laureate
Deaths
1986 - Nikolay Nikolayevich Semyonov, Russian chemist and Nobel Prize laureate
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