Events
1787 - William Herschel discovers Titania and Oberon, two moons of Uranus.
1922 - First use of insulin to treat diabetes in a human patient.
Births
1788 - William Thomas Brande, English chemist
1800 - Anyos Jedlik, Hungarian physicist
1842 - William James, American psychologist and philosopher
1845 - Albert Victor Bäcklund, Swedish physicist
1906 - Albert Hofmann, Swiss chemist
1924 - Roger Guillemin, French neuroendocrinologist and Nobel Prize laureate
Deaths
1882 - Theodor Schwann, German physiologist
1968 - Isidor Isaac Rabi, American physicist and Nobel Prize laureate
1991 - Carl David Anderson, American physicist and Nobel Prize laureate