Births
1732 - Johan Wilcke, Swedish physicist
1766 - John Dalton, British chemist and physicist
1802 - Alcide d’Orbigny, French naturalist
1829 - Marie Zakrzewska, Polish physician
1876 - John James Richard Macleod, Scottish-born physician, physiologist, and Nobel laureate
1892 - Sir Edward Appleton, English physicist and Nobel laureate
1906 - Luis Federico Leloir, French-born chemist and Nobel laureate
1939 - Susumu Tonegawa, Japanese molecular biologist and Nobel laureate
1943 - Richard J. Roberts, English biochemist and Nobel laureate
Deaths
1635 - Metius, Dutch mathematician and astronomer
1902 - Frederick Augustus Abel, English chemist
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