Events
Birthdays
- Jim Mooney [1919]
American comic book artist who created 'Supergirl' - Frederick Sanger [1918]
Nobel laureate known for his work on structure and sequence of macromolecules - Heinrich Louis d’Arrest [1822]
German astronomer who played a role in the discovery of planet Neptune - Anders Jonas Ångström [1814]
Pioneer of spectroscopy
Death Anniversaries
- Florence Nightingale [1910]
Famous English nurse and founder of modern nursing - Sir Isaac Holden [1897]
Independent inventor of friction matches - René Laennec [1826]
Inventor of the stethoscope