Births
1727 - Nikolaus Joseph von Jacquin, Austrian scientist
1804 - Karl Theodor Ernst von Siebold, German physiologist
1822 - Francis Galton, English biologist and biometrician
1834 - Ernst Haeckel, German zoologist and philosopher
Deaths
1531 - Johannes Stöffler, German mathematician and astronomer
1754 - Richard Mead, English physician
1980 - Erich Hückel, German physicist
1997 - Chien-Shiung Wu, Chinese-American physicist
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