Events
Birthdays
- Bill Tidy [1933]
British cartoonist and writer of comic strips - Joseph Friedman [1900]
Inventor of the bendy straw - Max von Laue [1879]
Nobel laureate who discovered X-ray diffraction by crystals - Mihajlo Pupin [1858]
Serbian physicist known for 'pupinisation' - Gerard Philips [1858]
Co-founder of Royal Philips Electronics N.V. - Henry Collen [1797]
English miniature portrait painter and photographer
Death Anniversaries
- Joseph Wedderburn [1948]
Scottish mathematician - Josef Ressel [1857]
Inventor of the marine propellor