Births
1832 - Edward Burnett Tylor, English anthropologist
1852 - William Ramsay, Scottish chemist
1907 - Alexander R. Todd, Baron Todd, Scottish chemist and Nobel Prize laureate
1914 - Jack Parsons, American rocket scientist
1917 - Christian de Duve, English-born biologist and Nobel Prize laureate
Deaths
1927 - Svante Arrhenius, Swedish chemist and Nobel Prize laureate
1987 - Peter Medawar, Brazilian-born scientist and Nobel Prize laureate
2002 - Heinz von Foerster, Austrian-born physicist and philosopher
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1573 - Simon Marius, German astronomer
1638 - Nicolas Steno, Danish geologist
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