Births
1573 - Simon Marius, German astronomer
1638 - Nicolas Steno, Danish geologist
1729 - Lazzaro Spallanzani, Italian biologist
1890 - Grigory Landsberg, Russian physicist
1916 - Sune Bergström, Swedish biochemist and Nobel Prize laureate
1936 - Robert Woodrow Wilson, American physicist and Nobel Prize laureate
Deaths
1778 - Carolus Linnaeus, Swedish botanist
1949 - Erich von Drygalski, German geographer, geophysicist, and polar scientist
1951 - Yoshio Nishina, Japanese physicist
1997 - Alexander R. Todd, Baron Todd, Scottish chemist and Nobel Prize laureate
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1832 - Edward Burnett Tylor, English anthropologist
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