Births
1849 - Sir William Osler, Canadian physician and author
1850 - Otto Schoetensack, German anthropologist
1861 - George Washington Carver, American botanist
1863 - Albert Calmette, French physician
1863 - Paul Karl Ludwig Drude, German physicist
1913 - Willis Lamb, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
1928 - Elias James Corey, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
Deaths
1682 - Jean Picard, French astronomer