Events
2001 - George W. Bush announces federal funding for limited research on embryonic stem cells.
Births
1726 - Francesco Cetti, Italian scientist
1776 - Amedeo Avogadro, Italian chemist
1896 - Jean Piaget, Swiss psychologist
1896 - Lev Vygotsky, Russian psychologist
1896 - Erich Hückel, German physicist
1911 - William Alfred Fowler, American physicist, Nobel Prize Laureate
Deaths
1969 - Cecil Frank Powell, British physicist, Nobel Prize Laureate
1996 - Sir Frank Whittle, invented the jet engine
2006 - James van Allen, American physicist
Vygotsky was born on November 17. His work is often presented with and compared to Piaget's, but they weren't born on the same day.