Events
1996 - NASA launches the Mars Global Surveyor.
Births
1818 - Emil du Bois-Reymond, German physician
1867 - Maria Sklodowska-Curie, Polish-born chemist, physicist and Nobel Prize laureate (twice)
1878 - Lise Meitner, Austrian/American chemist, physicist and Nobel Prize laureate
1888 - C. V. Raman, Indian physicist and Nobel Prize laureate
1903 - Konrad Lorenz, Austrian zoologist and Nobel Prize laureate
1915 - Philip Morrison, American scientist
1929 - Eric R. Kandel, Austrian-born neuroscientist and Nobel Prize laureate
Deaths
1599 - Gasparo Tagliacozzi, Italian surgeon
1913 - Alfred Russel Wallace, British naturalist and co-discoverer of natural selection
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