Births
1713 - Alexis Clairault, French mathematician
1768 - Charles Tennant, Scottish chemist and industrialist
1860 - John Scott Haldane, Scottish physiologist
1860 - Vito Volterra, Italian mathematician
1874 - V. Walfrid Ekman, Swedish oceanographer
1892 - George Paget Thomson, English physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
1902 - Alfred Kastler, French physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
1905 - Werner Fenchel, German mathematician
1933 - Steven Weinberg, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
Deaths
1779 - John Winthrop, American astronomer
1988 - Lev Semenovich Pontryagin, Russian mathematician
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