Events
2003 – Last successful contact with Pioneer 10.
Births
1561 – Francis Bacon, English philosopher
1592 – Pierre Gassendi, French philosopher, mathematician, and scientist
1796 – Karl Claus, Russian chemist
1903 – Fritz Houtermans, Polish physicist
1908 – Lev Davidovich Landau, Russian physicist and Nobel Prize laureate
1936 – Alan J. Heeger, American chemist and Nobel Prize laureate
Deaths
1767 – Johann Gottlob Lehmann, German minerologist and geologist
1779 – Jeremiah Dixon, English surveyor and astronomer
1840 – Johann Friedrich Blumenbach, German anthropologist
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