Births
1771 - Richard Trevithick, English engineer and inventor
1780 - Alexander Mitchell, Irish engineer
1802 - Leopold Fitzinger, Austrian zoologist
1850 - Arthur Matthew Weld Downing, British astronomer
1887 - Gordon S. Fahrni, Canadian physician and President of the Canadian Medical Association
1909 - Stanislaw Marcin Ulam, Polish mathematician
1941 - Michael Stuart Brown, American geneticist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
Deaths
1855 - Henry De la Beche, English geologist
1880 - Robert Fortune, Scottish botanist
1941 - Annie Jump Cannon, American astronomer
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