Events
1996 - Comet Hyakutake is discovered by Japanese amateur astronomer Yuji Hyakutake.
Births
1720 - Charles De Geer, Swedish industrialist and entomologist
1822 - Franz Ritter von Hauer, Austrian geologist
1899 - Max Theiler, South African virologist and Nobel Prize laureate
1949 - Peter Agre, American biologist and Nobel Prize laureate
Deaths
1858 - Coenraad Jacob Temminck, Dutch zoologist
1928 - Johannes Andreas Grib Fibiger, Danish scientist and Nobel Prize laureate
1962 - Manuel de Abreu, Brazilian physician
1991 - John Bardeen, American physicist
1995 - Gerald Durrell, British naturalist, zookeeper, author, and television presenter
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