Births
1731 - Henry Cavendish, British scientist
1780 - John Abercrombie, Scottish physician
1930 - Yves Chauvin, French chemist and Nobel Prize laureate
Deaths
1708 - David Gregory, Scottish astronomer
1876 - Charles Joseph Sainte-Claire Deville, French geologist
1930 - Adolf Engler, German botanist
1986 - Gleb Wataghin, Ukrainian-Italian physicist
2006 - Michael John Rogers, English ornithologist
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