Births
1875 - Gilbert N. Lewis, American chemist
1905 - Felix Bloch, Swiss physicist and Nobel Prize laureate
1908 - Ilya Frank, Russian physicist and Nobel Prize laureate
Deaths
1581 - Michael Neander, German mathematician and astronomer
1944 - Charles Glover Barkla, English physicist and Nobel Prize laureate
1986 - Edward Adelbert Doisy, American biochemist and Nobel Prize laureate