Births
1553 - Prospero Alpini, Italian physician and botanist
1715 - Pierre Charles Le Monnier, French astronomer
1837 - Johannes Diderik van der Waals, Dutch physicist and Nobel Prize laureate
1887 - Henry Moseley, English physicist
1907 - Lars Leksell, Swedish physician
1924 - Colin Macmillan Turnbull, British-born anthropologist
Deaths
1902 - Walter Reed, American bacteriologist
1937 - Jagdish Chandra Bose, Indian physicist
1937 - George Albert Boulenger, Belgian naturalist
it's amazing how many of these names I recognize.