Births
1621 - Thomas Willis, English physician
1903 - John Carew Eccles, Australian neuropsychologist and Nobel Prize laureate
1936 - Samuel C. C. Ting, American physicist and Nobel Prize laureate
Deaths
1851 - John James Audubon, French-American naturalist, ornithologist, and painter
1967 - Apollo 1 astronauts Gus Grissom, Edward White and Roger Chaffee (above) were killed in a fire during a test of the spacecraft at the Kennedy Space Center.
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