Births
1571 - Metius, Dutch mathematician and astronomer
1652 - Augustus Quirinus Rivinus, German physician
1748 - Claude Louis Berthollet, French chemist
1906 - Grace Murray Hopper, American computer pioneer
1917 - James Rainwater, American physicist and Nobel Prize laureate
1919 - William Lipscomb, American chemist and Nobel Prize laureate
1926 - Henry Way Kendall, American physicist and Nobel Prize laureate
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1798 - Johann Reinhold Forster, German botanist
1830 - Heinrich Christian Friedrich Schumacher, Danish surgeon, botanist and professor of anatomy
1937 - Nils Gustaf Dalén, Swedish physicist and Nobel Prize laureate
1996 - Mary Leakey, British archeologist and anthropologist
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