Births
1781 - Johann Baptist von Spix, German scientist
1865 - Erich von Drygalski, German geographer, geophysicist, and polar scientist
1910 - Jacques Monod, French biochemist and Nobel Prize laureate
1925 - Burkhard Heim, German physicist
1963 - Brian Greene, American physicist
Deaths
1752 - Fredric Hasselquist, Swedish naturalist
1940 - Eugene Bleuler, Swiss psychiatrist
1979 - Dennis Gabor, Hungarian physicist and Nobel Prize laureate
1994 - Howard Martin Temin, American geneticist and Nobel Prize laureate
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