Births
1785- Claude-Louis Navier, French physicist
1846 - Ira Remsen, American chemist
1897 - John Franklin Enders, American virologist and Nobel Prize laureate
1902 - Walter Houser Brattain, American physicist and Nobel Prize laureate
Deaths
1865 - Heinrich Lenz, German physicist
1923 - Wilhelm Röntgen, German physicist and Nobel Prize laureate
1944 - Eugène Michel Antoniadi, Greek astronomer
1952 - Henry Drysdale Dakin, British-American biochemist
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