Births
1777 - Hans Christian Ãrsted, Danish physicist
1840 - Richard von Krafft-Ebing, German psychologist
1933 - Richard R. Ernst, Nobel Prize Laureate
Deaths
1774 - Johann Jakob Reiske, German physician
1856 - Constant Prévost, French geologist
1860 - André Marie Constant Duméril, French zoologist
1941 - Paul Sabatier, French chemist, Nobel Prize Laureate
1958 - Frédéric Joliot, French physicist, Nobel Prize Laureate