- 1625 - Birth of Giovanni Domenico Cassini, Italian scientist (d. 1712)
- 1835 - Death of Gian Domenico Romagnosi, Italian physicist (b. 1761)
- 1851 - Birth of Jacques-Arsène d'Arsonval, French physicist (d. 1940)
- 1916 - Birth of Francis Crick, English molecular biologist and Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2004)
- 1930 - Birth of Robert Aumann, German-Israeli mathematician and Nobel Prize in Economics laureate
- 1936 - Birth of Kenneth G. Wilson, American physicist and Nobel Prize laureate
- 1937 - The first total solar eclipse to exceed 7 minutes of totality in over 800 years is visible in the Pacific and Peru.
- 1947 - Birth of Eric F. Wieschaus, American biologist and Nobel Prize laureate
- 1949 - Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell is published.
- 1970 - Death of Abraham Maslow, American psychologist (b. 1908)
- 2004 - First Transit of Venus in this millennium.
- 1625 - Birth of Giovanni Domenico Cassini, Italian scientist (d. 1712)
- 1835 - Death of Gian Domenico Romagnosi, Italian physicist (b. 1761)
- 1851 - Birth of Jacques-Arsène d'Arsonval, French physicist (d. 1940)
- 1916 - Birth of Francis Crick, English molecular biologist and Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2004)
- 1930 - Birth of Robert Aumann, German-Israeli mathematician and Nobel Prize in Economics laureate
- 1936 - Birth of Kenneth G. Wilson, American physicist and Nobel Prize laureate
- 1937 - The first total solar eclipse to exceed 7 minutes of totality in over 800 years is visible in the Pacific and Peru.
- 1947 - Birth of Eric F. Wieschaus, American biologist and Nobel Prize laureate
- 1949 - Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell is published.
- 1970 - Death of Abraham Maslow, American psychologist (b. 1908)
- 2004 - First Transit of Venus in this millennium.