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
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1598 - Giovanni Riccioli, Italian astronomer
Events
Births
1646 (O.S.) - Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, German philosopher and scientist
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