Events
2003 - Last successful contact with Pioneer 10.
Births
1561 - Francis Bacon, English philosopher
1592 - Pierre Gassendi, French philosopher, mathematician, and scientist
1796 - Karl Claus, Russian chemist
1903 - Fritz Houtermans, Polish physicist
1908 - Lev Davidovich Landau, Russian physicist and Nobel Prize laureate
1936 - Alan J. Heeger, American chemist and Nobel Prize laureate
Deaths
1767 - Johann Gottlob Lehmann, German minerologist and geologist
1779 - Jeremiah Dixon, English surveyor and astronomer
1840 - Johann Friedrich Blumenbach, German anthropologist
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