Births
1586 - Niccolò Zucchi, Italian astronomer
1778 - Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac, French physicist and chemist
1863 - Charles Martin Hall, American chemist
1890 - Yoshio Nishina, Japanese physicist
1920 - George Porter, British chemist and Nobel Prize laureate
Deaths
1771 - Giovanni Battista Morgagni, Italian anatomist
1867 - Jean Pierre Flourens, French physician