Births
1651 - Ehrenfried Walther von Tschirnhaus, German mathematician
1755 - Samuel Hahnemann, German physician
1762 - Giovanni Aldini, Italian physicist
1887 - Bernardo Houssay, Argentine physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate
1917 - Robert Burns Woodward, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
1927 - Marshall Warren Nirenberg, American scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
Deaths
1813 - Joseph-Louis Lagrange, Italian-born mathematician
1920 - Moritz Cantor, German mathematician
1955 - Teilhard de Chardin, French paleontologist and theologian
1999 - Heinz Fraenkel-Conrat, German-born biochemist
2002 - Yuji Hyakutake, Japanese amateur astronomer, discoverer of Comet Hyakutake (see above)
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Events
1996 - Comet Hyakutake is discovered by Japanese amateur astronomer Yuji Hyakutake.
“Maybe some people don't feel scared when they think about comets and supernovas. Maybe they think it is wonderful.” -Lydia Netzer
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"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover." -Mark Twain