Births
1677 - Jacques Cassini, French astronomer
1807 - Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins, English sculptor and naturalist
1834 - Dmitri Mendeleev, Russian chemist
1930 - James Deetz, American anthropologist
Deaths
1856 - Agostino Bassi, Italian entomologist
1957 - Walther Bothe, German physicist and Nobel Prize laureate
1957 - John von Neumann, Hungarian-born mathematician and physicist
1975 - Robert Robinson, British chemist and Nobel Prize laureate
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