Births
1824 - Paul Broca, French physician
1873 - Alexis Carrel, French surgeon and biologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
1906 - Maria Goeppert-Mayer, German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
1912 - Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker, German physicist and philosopher
1914 - Aribert Heim, Austrian physician
1927 - Frank Sherwood Rowland, American chemist, Nobel laureate
1943 - Klaus von Klitzing, German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
Deaths
1889 - Maria Mitchell, American astronomer
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