Births
1852 - Henri Becquerel, French physicist and Nobel Prize laureate
1860 - Niels Ryberg Finsen, Danish physician and Nobel Prize laureate
1916 - Maurice Wilkins, New Zealand-born physicist and Nobel Prize laureate
1923 - Freeman Dyson, English-born American physicist
Deaths
1958 - Wolfgang Ernst Pauli, Austrian-born American physicist and Nobel Prize laureate