Births
1635 - Marquard Gude, German archaeologist
1761 - Christian Hendrik Persoon, South African mycologist
1844 - G. Stanley Hall, American psychologist
Deaths
1897 - Constantin von Ettingshausen, Austrian geologist
1903 - George Gabriel Stokes, Irish physicist
1958 - Clinton Davisson, American physicist and Nobel Prize laureate
1976 - Werner Heisenberg, German physicist and Nobel Prize laureate
1976 - George Whipple, American scientist and Nobel Prize laureate
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