Events
1808 - The organizational meeting that led to the creation of the Wernerian Natural History Society is held.
2005 - Deep Impact (space mission) launches from Cape Canaveral on a Delta 2 rocket.
Births
1792 - Johan August Arfwedson, Swedish chemist
1797 - Gideon Brecher, Austrian physician
1899 - Paul Hermann Müller, Swiss chemist and Nobel Prize laureate
1905 - James Bennett Griffin, American archaeologist
Deaths
1732 - John Horsley, British archaeologist
1997 - Charles B. Huggins, Canadian-born cancer researcher and Nobel Prize laureate
2003 - Dean Amadon, American ornithologist