Births
1541 - Michele Mercati, Italian physician
1818 - August Wilhelm von Hofmann, German chemist
1865 - Charles W. Woodworth, American entomologist
1869 - Harvey Cushing, American neurosurgeon
1911 - Melvin Calvin, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate for discovering the Calvin Cycle (see above)
Deaths
1461 - Georg Purbach, German mathematician and astronomer
1919 - Loránd Eötvös, Hungarian physicist
1936 - Robert Bárány, Austrian physician, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
1984 - Pyotr Leonidovich Kapitsa, Russian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
1992 - Daniel Bovet, Swiss-born pharmacologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
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1704 - Birth of Louis Godin, French astronomer
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1814 - Gabriel Auguste Daubrée, French geologist
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Argh!! Thanks for posting the image of my nightmare as a college student - and now high school teacher - there is nothing as futile as trying to commit that sucker to memory when you only use it a few times a year. (Unless it's trying to commit it to your students' memories... this year I just did the basics and hoped they'd remember those, at least!)