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8498 B.C.: After a calculation, the Maya calendar begins.

Born in
1760:Johan Gadolin, Finnish chemist, born in Turku. He discovered the yttrium in 1794. The element gadolinium was named after him.
1819: John Couch Adams, British mathematician
1852: Oscar Drude, German botanist
1883: John Maynard Keynes, English mathematician and economist
1900: Dennis Gábor, Hungarian-British physicist and Nobel Prize winner
1907: Rudolf Peierls, German-British physicist
1918: Theodore Wilbur Anderson, US-American mathematician

Deceased
1913: Theodor Wieland, German chemist
1968: Ellen Gleditsch, Norwegian chemist
1976: Robert Wichard Pohl, German physicist

1984: The first playable version of Tetris was completed.

Born in
1436: Regiomontanus, German astronomer, mathematician and publisher
1819: Ernst Wilhelm von Brücke, German physiologist
1850: Karl Ferdinand Braun, German physicist, electrical engineer and television pioneer, Nobel Prize winner
1933: Heinrich Rohrer, Swiss physicist
1943: Richard Smalley, American chemist and Nobel Prize winner
1948: Guido J. Wasser, Swiss physicist,

Deceased
1639: Peter Crüger, German philologist, astronomer and mathematician
1943: Guido Fubini, Italian mathematician
1971: Edward Neville da Costa Andrade, British physicist

Born in
1862: Philipp Lenard, German physicist, born in Bratislava. In 1905 he received the Nobel Prize in Physics for his work in the field of solid state and atomic physics, especially cathode rays.
1877: Charles Glover Barkla, British physicist, born in Widnes. He is regarded as the founder of X-ray spectroscopy and discovered the polarization of X-rays. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for his work in 1917.
1896: Robert S. Mulliken, American physicist and chemist

Deceased
1826:Joseph von Fraunhofer, German optician and physicist died in Munich. Among other things, he discovered the lines named after him in the solar spectrum, constructed the Frauenhofer lens and much more.
1954: Alan Turing, British mathematician and cryptanalyst
1978: Ronald George Wreyford Norrish, British chemist and Nobel Prize winner

1975: The Soviet Union launches Venera 9, a second generation of space probes to explore the planet Venus. They consist of an orbiter (space travel) and a lander, which are first put into orbit.

Born
1625: Giovanni Domenico Cassini, Italian-French astronomer and mathematician born in Perinaldo
1850: Niklaus Gerber, Swiss chemist and inventor
1916: Francis Crick, English physicist and biochemist, born in Northampton. Together with Watson and Wilkins, he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Medicine in 1962 for the spatial model of DNA. This work is the basis of practically all genetics and has been absolutely groundbreaking.
1936: Kenneth G. Wilson, US-American physicist, Nobel Prize winner

Deceased
1628: Rudolf Goclenius the Elder, German Professor of Philosophy, Ethics, and Physics
1930: Leopold Friedrich Anton Ambronn, German astronomer
1966: John Ernest Weaver, US-American botanist
1997: Karen Wetterhahn, US-American chemist
2014: Alexander Imich, US-American chemist, parapsychologist and supercentenarian
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19 B.C.: The Aqua Virgo is the sixth aqueduct to be put into operation after Rome. The water supply still functions today and feeds the Trevi Fountain, among other things.

Born in
1806: Ernst von Bibra, German chemist and writer, in Schwebheim.
1812: Johann Gottfried Galle, German astronomer, discoverer of the planet Neptune.
1875: Henry Hallett Dale, British biochemist, born in London. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Medicine in 1936 for discoveries in the chemical transmission of nerve impulses.

Died
1894: Werner Hagedorn, German surgeon
1959: Adolf Windaus died in Göttingen. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1929 for his work on the constitution of sterols and their relationship to vitamins.

1793: In Paris, the Jardin des Plantes opens the Muséum national d'histoire naturelle.
1955: The foundation stone for the European nuclear research laboratory CERN is laid.

Born in
1821: Alexander von Frantzius, German physician, zoologist and anthropologist
1848: Ferdinand Tiemann, German chemist
1861: Pierre Duhem, French physicist and science theorist/historian
1887: Vladimir Ivanovich Smirnov, Russian-Soviet mathematician
1910: Poor Tachtadschjan, Armenian-Soviet botanist
1938: Hans-Joachim Girlich, German mathematician

Deceased
1836: André-Marie Ampère, French physicist and mathematician
1933: Georg von Struve, German astronomer
2003: Hans Friedrich Elsässer, German astronomer

1928: Fritz Stamer performs the first manned rocket flight. The Lippisch-Ente glider, equipped with solid rockets, will be launched with a rubber rope.
2004: Cassini–Huygens makes its closest flyby of the Saturn moon Phoebe.

Born
1723: Johann Georg Palitzsch, German astronomer
1855: Georg August Zenker, German gardener, botanist and zoologist
1859: Johannes Oscar Schubert, German mathematician, physicist, geodesist and meteorologist
1867: Charles Fabry, French physicist
1893: Karl Weissenberg, Dutch physicist and one of the first rheologists
1910: Jacques Cousteau, French biologist, author, and inventor, co-developed the aqua-lung
1915: Nicholas Metropolis, American mathematician and physicist
1918: Marianne Laqueur, computer scientist
1919: Horst Schubert, German mathematician
1956: Simon Plouffe, Canadian mathematician and academic

Died
1866: Theodor Kotschy, Austrian botanist
1897: Carl Remigius Fresenius, German analytical chemist
1903: Nikolai Bugaev, Russian mathematician and philosopher
1965: Paul B. Coremans, Belgian chemist and academic
1984: Siegfried Balke, German chemist, manager, politician and Federal Minister
2007: Imre Friedmann, American biologist and academi
2011: Eliyahu M. Goldratt, Israeli physicist and engineer

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1817: Karl Drais takes the first public ride with his invented trolley (forerunner of the bicycle) in Mannheim.

Born

1577: Paul Guldin, astronomer and professor of mathematics in Graz and Vienna
1843: David Gill, British astronomer
1851: Oliver Lodge, British physicist
1858: Harry Johnston, English botanist and explorer
1888: Zygmunt Janiszewski, Polish mathematician and academic
1899: Fritz Lipmann, American biochemist, born in Königsberg. Together with Hans Krebs, he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Medicine in 1953 for the discovery of coenzyme A and its importance.
1918: Christie Jayaratnam Eliezer, Sri Lankan-Australian mathematician and academic
1922: Margherita Hack, Italian astrophysicist and author
1937: Vladimir Arnold, Russian-French mathematician and academic
1937: Antal Festetics, Hungarian-Austrian biologist and zoologist
1942: Bert Sakmann, German scientist, born in Stuttgart.
In 1991 he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Medicine together with E. Neher "for the study of ion channels and the exchange of information between cells".
1946: Catherine Bréchignac, French physicist and academic

Died
1900: Jean Frédéric Frenet, French mathematician, astronomer and meteorologist
1929: Marie Henri Andoyer, French astronomer and mathematician
1982: Karl von Frisch, German zoologist, Nobel Prize winner

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1898: William Ramsay isolates the chemical element and inert gas neon for the first time by fractional distillation of liquid argon.

Born
1508: Alessandro Piccolomini, Italian astronomer and philosopher
1555: Giovanni Antonio Magini, Italian mathematician, cartographer and astronomer
1580: Willebrord Snell, Dutch astronomer and mathematician
1723: Giovanni Antonio Scopoli, Austrian physician and naturalist
1733: Johann Jakob Hemmer, German meteorologist, physicist and linguist
1773: Thomas Young, British physicist and physician
1822: Carl Ernst Heinrich Schmidt, Russian chemist and physician
1831: James Clerk Maxwell, British physicist and chemist
1868: Wallace Clement Sabine, American physicist and academic
1870: Jules Bordet, Belgian physician, Nobel Prize winner
1876: William Sealy Gosset, English chemist and statistician
1906: Bruno de Finetti, Austrian-Italian mathematician and statistician
1911: Luis Walter Alvarez, American physicist, born in San Francisco. In 1968 he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics "for his decisive contribution to elementary particle physics, in particular his discoveries of a large number of resonant states, made possible by his development of techniques with the hydrogen bubble chamber and data analysis".
1911: Erwin Wilhelm Müller, German physicist and academic
1916: Helmut Zahn, German chemist
1923: Lloyd Conover, American chemist and inventor
1928: John Forbes Nash, Jr., American mathematician and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
1946: Paul L. Modrich, American biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
1966: Grigori Perelman, Russian mathematician

Died
1875: Heinrich Louis d'Arrest, German astronomer in Berlin, Leipzig and Copenhagen
1931: Jesse Boot, English pharmacist
1938: Charles Édouard Guillaume, Swiss physicist
1960: Carl Keenan Seyfert, American astronomer
1972: Georg von Békésy, Hungarian-US-American biophysicist, physiologist and Nobel Prize winner
2012: William S. Knowles, American chemist and Nobel Prize winner

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1949: Albert II, a rhesus monkey, rides a V-2 rocket to an altitude of 134 km (83 mi), thereby becoming the first monkey in space.
2002: Near-Earth asteroid 2002 MN misses the Earth by 75,000 miles (121,000 km), about one-third of the distance between the Earth and the Moon.

Born
1444: Nilakantha Somayaji, Indian astronomer and mathematician
1627: Johann Abraham Ihle, German astronomer
1736: Charles Augustin de Coulomb, French physicist born in Angoleme
1796: Nikolai Brashman, Czech-Russian mathematician and academic
1856: Andrei Andreyevich Markov, Russian mathematician
1862: John Ulric Nef, Swiss-American chemist and academic
1868: Karl Landsteiner, Austrian biologist and physician, Nobel Prize laureate
1876: Jakob Meisenheimer, German chemist
1903: Alonzo Church, American mathematician
1917: Atle Selberg, Norwegian-American mathematician
1918: Fred Baur, American chemist and founder of Pringles

Died
1746: Colin Maclaurin, British mathematician, geodesist and geophysicist from Scotland
1918: John Harper Long, American chemist
2015: Richard Cotton, Australian geneticist

763 B.C.: Assyrian astrologers record an eclipse of the sun, which today is used as a fixed point for the chronology of Mesopotamian history.
1869: Celluloid patented in the USA

Born
1640: Bernard Lamy, French mathematician and theologian
1754: Juan José Elhuyar, Spanish chemist and mineralogist
1755: Antoine François, comte de Fourcroy, French chemist and entomologist
1765: Johann Gottlieb Friedrich von Bohnenberger, German astronomer and mathematician
1856: Otto von Herff, German physician and professor
1894: Nikolai Chebotaryov, Ukrainian-Russian mathematician and theorist
1871: Max Bodenstein, German radiochemist, in Magdeburg.
1903: Friedrich Wilhelm Jost, German physicochemist
1917: John B. Fenn, American chemist, Nobel Prize winner
1921: Bruce Merrifield born in Fort Worth. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1984.
1921: Heinz Kaminski, German chemical engineer and space explorer
1941: Hagen Kleinert, German physicist

Died
1752: Michael Gottlieb Agnethler, Transylvanian scientist and numismatist
1768: James Short, Scottish mathematician and optician
1785: Pilâtre de Rozier, French physicist and aviation pioneer, achieved the first manned aviation of mankind.
1876: Louis Stromeyer, German surgeon, professor and general physician
1917: Kristian Birkeland, Norwegian physicist and academic
1971: Wendell Meredith Stanley, American chemist, biochemist, virologist and Nobel Prize winner
1995: John Atanasoff, American physicist
2013: Kenneth G. Wilson, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate

2012: China successfully launches its Shenzhou 9 spacecraft, carrying three astronauts, including the first female Chinese astronaut Liu Yang, to the Tiangong-1 orbital module.
2012: The United States Air Force's robotic Boeing X-37B spaceplane returns to Earth after a classified 469-day orbital mission.

Born
1591: Joseph Solomon Delmedigo, Greek-Italian physician, mathematician, and theorist
1633: Jean de Thévenot, French linguist and botanist
1801: Julius Plücker, German mathematician and physicist
1806: Edward Davy, English physician and chemist
1826: Constantin von Ettingshausen, Austrian geologist and botanist
1850: Max Delbrück, German chemist and academic
1880: Otto Eisenschiml, Austrian-American chemist and author
1888: Alexander Alexandrovich Friedmann, Russian physicist and mathematician
1888: Peter Stoner, American mathematician and astronomer
1897: Georg Wittig born in Berlin. In 1979 he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the Wittig reaction named after him.
1902: Barbara McClintock, American geneticist and Nobel Prize winner
1910: Richard Maling Barrer, New Zealand chemist
1915: Marga Faulstrich born in Weimar. As a German glass chemist, she was involved in the development of 300 glass types at Schott.
1915: John Tukey, American mathematician and academic
1920: Raymond Lemieux, Canadian chemist and academic

Died
1869: Charles Sturt, Indian-English botanist and explorer
1888: Georg Franz Blasius von Adelmann, German physician and surgeon
1902: Ernst Schröder, German mathematician and logician
1948: Louis Brillouin, French physicist
1970: Sydney Chapman, English mathematician and geophysicist
1977: Wernher von Braun, German-American physicist and engineer
2007: Norman Hackerman, American chemist and university president

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1963: The ASCII code is published.

Born
1714: César François Cassini de Thury, French geodesist and astronomer
1800: William Parsons, 3rd Earl of Rosse, English-Irish astronomer and politician
1802: Hermann Mayer Salomon Goldschmidt, German-French astronomer and painter
1832: Sir William Crookes, British chemist and physicist
1885: Paul Oppenheim, German chemist, philosopher, private scholar and industrialist
1887: Hugo Gieseking, German mathematician
1898: Carl Hermann was born in Wesermünde (Bremerhaven). He was one of the most important German crystallographers. Among other things, he developed a nomenclature for room groups.
1906: Thomas George Cowling, British astronomer and mathematician
1920: François Jacob, French biologist and geneticist, Nobel Prize laureate
1925: Alexander Shulgin, American pharmacologist and chemist
1943: James Elliot, American astrophysicist

Died
1922: Otto Lehmann, German physicist and one of the fathers of German liquid crystal research, in Karlsruhe
1936: Henry Le Chatelier died in. As a chemist, metallurgist and physicist, he rendered outstanding services above all to the chemical equilibrium (principle of Le Chatelier).
1940: Arthur Harden died in London. In 1929, the British biochemist and Hans Karl August Simon of Euler-Chelpin received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry "for his research into sugar fermentation and the share of enzymes in this process".
1952: Jack Parsons, American chemist and engineer
1996: Thomas Samuel Kuhn, American physicist, science theorist and historian
2001: Donald J. Cram, American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate

Born
1799: William Lassell, English astronomer and merchant

1845: Alphonse Laveran, French physician, Nobel Prize winner
1858: Andrew Forsyth, Scottish-English mathematician and academic
1870: Johannes Biehle, German physicist, bell and organ builder
1870: Édouard Le Roy, French mathematician and philosopher
1913: Oswald Teichmüller, German mathematician
1915: Alice T. Schafer, American mathematician
1918: Jerome Karle, American physicochemist and crystallographer, Nobel Prize winner
1926: Allan Sandage, American astronomer and cosmologist
1928: David T. Lykken, American geneticist and academic
1932: Dudley R. Herschbach, American chemist
1962: Lisa Randall, American physicist and academic

Died
1650: Christoph Scheiner, German priest, physicist, and astronomer
1773: Johann Christian Seidel, German theologian and astronomer
1922: Jacobus Kapteyn, Dutch astronomer and academic
1971: Paul Karrer, Swiss chemist and Nobel Prize winner died in Zurich. He received the Nobel Prize in 1937 for his work on carotenoids and flavins as well as vitamins A and B2.
1980: Kazimierz Kuratowski, Polish mathematician
2000: Robert Heinz Abeles, American chemist
2014: Stephanie Kwolek, American chemist

Born in
1623: Blaise Pascal, French mathematician
1837: Philipp Carl, German physicist
1846: Antonio Abetti, Italian astronomer
1897: Cyril Hinshelwood, British chemist and Nobel Prize winner born in London. In 1956 he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his fundamental work on the formation of water (kinetics and mechanism) together with Nikolay Semyonov.
1906: Ernst Boris Chain, British chemist, born in Berlin. He received the Nobel Prize for Medicine in 1945 for the discovery of penicillin and its healing properties.
1922: Aage Niels Bohr, Danish physicist
1937: Gerhard Zech, German physicist and politician

Deceased

1840: Samuel F. B. Morse receives a patent from the United States Patent Office for the writing telegraph he invented.
1894: In Hong Kong, the doctor and bacteriologist Alexandre Yersin discovers the plague pathogen, a bacterium that later receives the name Yersinia pestis in honour of Yersin.
1948: The currency reform in the western zones of occupied Germany deepens the Cold War. From the following day, the Deutsche Mark replaces the Reichsmark.

Born in
1861: Frederick Gowland Hopkins, British biochemist, physiologist and Nobel Prize winner
1875: Reginald Punnett, British geneticist
1941: Ulf Merbold, German physicist and astronaut
1956: Anton Amann, Austrian chemist

Deceased
1634: Nicolas Ager, French botanist
1800: Abraham Gotthelf Kästner, German mathematician
1922: Wilhelm Hallwachs, German physicist
1958: Kurt Alder, German chemist
2002: Erwin Chargaff, US biochemist and writer

1886: Laying of the foundation stone and start of construction of the Tower Bridge in London.
2004: SpaceShipOne is the first private space flight to be carried out. The first private astronaut is Michael Melvill.

Born in
1781: Siméon Denis Poisson, French physicist and mathematician
1805: Charles Thomas Jackson, American physician, chemist, geologist and mineralogist
1811: Carlo Matteucci, Italian physicist and neurophysiologist, politician, senator and minister of education
1823: Jean Chacornac, French astronomer
1826: Georg von Neumayer, German geophysicist and polar researcher
1837: Wilhelm von Bezold, German physicist and meteorologist
1870: Clara Immerwahr, German chemist, women's rights activist and pacifist, one of the first women in Germany to receive a doctorate.
1876: Willem Hendrik Keesom, Dutch physicist
1965: Yang Liwei, first Chinese astronaut

Deceased
1857: Louis Jacques Thénard, French chemist
1874: Anders Jonas Ångström, Swedish astronomer and physicist
1951: Charles Dillon Perrine, Astronomer
1957: Johannes Stark, German physicist, Nobel Prize winner

Born in
1435: Otto II. von der Pfalz-Mosbach (Otto Mathematicus), count palatine and duke in Bavaria, astronomer
1744: Johann Christian Polycarp Erxleben, German natural scientist
1767: Wilhelm von Humboldt, German scholar and statesman
1837: Paul Bachmann, German mathematician
1860: Wilhelm Schneidewind, German agricultural chemist
1864: Hermann Minkowski, German mathematician and physicist
1939: Ada Yonath, Israeli structural biologist and crystallographer, Nobel Prize winner in chemistry

Deceased
1859: Cornelis Adriaan Bergsma, Dutch chemist, botanist and agricultural scientist
1925: Felix Klein, German mathematician
1977: Paul Oppenheim, German chemist, philosopher, private scholar and industrialist
1990: Ilja Michailowitsch Frank, Russian physicist, Nobel Prize winner

Born in
1775: Louis Malus, French engineer and physicist
1843: Carl Ernst Otto Kuntze, German botanist
1912: Alan Turing, British mathematician and cryptanalyst
1943: Vinton G. Cerf, American mathematician and computer scientist
1953: Poor Sargsyan, Armenian physicist and computer scientist, entrepreneur and diplomat

Deceased
1891: Norman Robert Pogson, English astronomer
1891: Wilhelm Eduard Weber, German physicist

Born in
1637: Johann Arnold Friderici, German physician and botanist
1883: Victor Franz Hess, Austrian-US-American physicist, Nobel Prize winner 1936
1909:William Penney, British physicist
1927: Martin L. Perl, US-American physicist

Deceased
1880: Jules Antoine Lissajous, French physicist

1678: Elena Lucrezia Cornaro Piscopia is the first woman in the world to receive a doctorate in philosophy.

Born in
1864: Walther Nernst, German physicist and chemist, Nobel Prize winner. In 1921, the German physicist and chemist received the Nobel Prize for Chemistry for 1920 "in recognition of his thermochemical work".
1869: Alfred Wilm, German chemist and metallurgist
1894: Hermann Oberth, German space pioneer
1905: Rupert Wildt, German-US-American astronomer
1907: Hans Daniel Jensen, German physicist in Hamburg. In 1963 he received the Nobel Prize for Physics (with M. Goeppert-Mayer) "for her discovery of the nuclear shell structure".
1911: William Howard Stein, American biochemist. In 1972 he received the Nobel Prize for Chemistry (with S. Moore) "for her contribution to understanding the connections between chemical structure and catalytic activity of the active centre of ribonuclease molecules".
1928: Alexei Abrikossov, Russian physicist and Nobel Prize winner

Deceased
1868: Carlo Matteucci, Italian physicist and neurophysiologist, politician, senator and minister of education

1886: The Frenchman Henri Moissan produces pure fluorine for the first time.
1936: The world's first helicopter, the FW 61, takes off from Bremen.
1954: The Obninsk nuclear power plant near Moscow, the world's first commercial nuclear power plant, begins feeding electricity into the Soviet power grid.

Born in
1730: Charles Messier, French astronomer
1824: William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin, British physicist
1909: Erwin Schopper, German physicist
1913: Maurice V. Wilkes, British computer scientist
1938: Eric George Adelberger, US experimental nuclear physicist and gravitational physicist

Deceased
1667: Johann Zeisold, German physicist
1911: Othmar Zeidler, Austrian chemist. He synthesized the insecticide DDT for the first time.
1932: Adelaide Ames, US-American astronomer

Born in
1806: Augustus De Morgan, British mathematician
1901: Merle Antony Tuve, US-American physicist and geophysicist
1931: Martinus J.G. Veltman, Dutch physicist

Deceased
1654: Johann Valentin Andreae, German writer, mathematician, theologian
1829: James Smithson, British mineralogist and chemist
1831: Sophie Germain, French mathematician
1876: Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg, German biologist and zoologist
1880: Karl Wilhelm Borchardt, German mathematician
1975: Geoffrey Ingram Taylor, British physicist

Born in
1712: Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Swiss-French writer, philosopher, pedagogue, natural scientist and Enlightenment composer
1825: Emil Erlenmeyer, German chemist, born in Taunusstein-Wehen. He was a very committed chemist who taught at school and university and was very interested in structures. But he is best known for the Erlenmeyer flask named after him.
1875: Henri Léon Lebesgue, French mathematician
1902: Bertram Eugene Warren, American crystallographer, born in Waltham. He has rendered outstanding services to the study of the transition from amorphous to crystalline.
1912: Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker, German physicist and philosopher
1912: Karl Seebach, German mathematician and didactician
1927: F. Sherwood Rowland born in Delaware. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1995 for his work on atmospheric chemistry and especially ozone formation.
1928: John Stewart Bell, Irish physicist, born in Belfast. He became famous for Bell's inequalities.
1943: Klaus von Klitzing, German physicist born in Schroda/ Posen.
In 1985 he received the Nobel Prize for Physics "for the discovery of the so-called Hall effect".
1949: Peter Gruss, German biologist

Deceased
1651: Christoph Schelhammer, German physician
1768: George Hadley, British lawyer, amateur physicist and meteorologist
1838: Friedrich Accum, German chemist
1945: Gustav Heinrich Angenheister, German geophysicist

Born in
1516: Rembert Dodoens, Flemish botanist and physicist
1638: Heinrich Meibom, German physician
1782: Hans Christian Lyngbye, Danish priest, botanist and publisher
1818: Angelo Secchi, Italian astronomer
1868: George Ellery Hale, US-American astronomer
1892: Walter Schriel, German geologist
1904: Witold Hurewicz, Polish mathematician

Deceased
1890: Alexander Parkes, British chemist, died in London. He was one of the pioneers in the field of plastics and electrochemical surface treatment (electroplating).
1895: Thomas Henry Huxley, British biologist, educational organiser and main representative of agnosticism.
1907: Siegfried Czapski, German physicist, optician and entrepreneur
1939: Heinrich Alfred Ammelburg, German chemist and manager
2008: William R. Bennett, US-American physicist
2009: Erwin Schopper, German physicist

1905: Albert Einstein's work on the electrodynamics of moving bodies goes down in the annals of physics. It establishes the special theory of relativity. It is Einstein's third and most important work in the so-called "Annus mirabilis" of physics.

Born
1913: Herta Heuwer, German inventor of the Currywurst sauce
1926: Paul Berg, US biochemist
1944: Michael Repacholi, Australian physicist, biologist and radiation protection expert

Deceased
1660:William Oughtred, English Mathematician