Births
1565 - Laurentius Paulinus Gothus, Swedish theologian and astronomer
1695 - John Bevis, English physician and astronomer
1918 - Ernst Otto Fischer, German chemist and Nobel Prize laureate
1935 - Igor Dmitrievich Novikov, Russian astrophysicist
1935 - Bernard Babior, American biochemist
1961 - Rudolf Grimm, Austrian physicist
Deaths
1990 - Mário Schenberg, Brazilian physicist