Births
1715 - Jean-Ãtienne Guettard, French physician and scientist
1717 - Pehr Wilhelm Wargentin, Swedish astronomer
1741 - Peter Simon Pallas, German zoologist
1791 - Michael Faraday, English scientist
1900 - Paul H. Emmett, American chemical engineer
1901 - Charles B. Huggins, Canadian-born scientist and Nobel Prize laureate
1922 - Chen Ning Yang, Chinese-born physicist and Nobel Prize laureate
Deaths
1777 - John Bartram, American botanist
1956 - Frederick Soddy, English chemist and Nobel Prize laureate
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