- 1759 - Adriaan Gilles Camper was born.
- 1831 - Angelo Heilprin was born in Sátoraljaújhely, Kingdom of Hungary.
- 1850 - Charles Doolittle Walcott was born in New York Mills, New York, USA.
- 1882 - Dmitrii Mushketov was born in St Petersburg, Russia.
- 1887 - George Bax Holmes died.
- 1902 - Alexander Bittner died in Vienna, Austria.
- 1907 - Brian John Marples was born in Hessle, England.
- 2008 - Halszka Osmólska died in Poland.
