Births
1744 - Pierre-Joseph Desault, French anatomist and surgeon
1853 - Ignacij KlemenÄiÄ, Slovenian physicist
1892 - William Parry Murphy, American physician and Nobel Prize laureate
1913 - Mary Leakey, British anthropologist
Deaths
1617 - Prospero Alpini, Italian scientist
1833 - Pierre André Latreille, French entomologist
1950 - Georges Imbert, Alsatian chemist
1991 - Salvador Luria, Italian-born biologist and Nobel Prize laureate
1998 - Haroun Tazieff, French vulcanologist and geologist
2002 - Max Perutz, Austrian-born molecular biologist and Nobel Prize laureate