- male, deceased (1990)
- Harold Masursky (December 23,1922 - August 24,1990) was an American geologist and astronomer. He started his career working for the US Geological...
- male, deceased (1900)
- Emmanuel Liais was a French astronomer, botanist and explorer who spent many years in Brazil. He was born in Cherbourg, the son of a wealthy family...
- male, deceased (1907)
- Victor Henry, French philologist, was born at Colmar in Alsace. Having held appointments at Douai and Lille, he was appointed professor of Sanskrit...
- male, 80 years old
- Hugo Loetscher is a Swiss writer. "Der Immune" (literally: "The immune Man") probably is Loetscher’s most important work. Hugo Loetscher knew Fr...
- male
- Pallab Ghosh is a Science Correspondent for BBC News. Born in Cuttack, India in 1962, he came to the United Kingdom 1963. He has been a Science...
- male
- Don Coppersmith is a cryptographer and mathematician. He was involved in the design of the Data Encryption Standard block cipher at IBM,...
- male, deceased (1832)
- Baron Franz Xaver von Zach (June 4, 1754-September 2, 1832) was a Hungarian astronomer born at Pest. He served for some time in the Austrian army,...
- male
- Eudoxus of Cnidus was a Greek astronomer, mathematician, physician, scholar and student of Plato. Since all his own works are lost, our knowledge...
- male, deceased (1875)
- Heinrich Louis d'Arrest was a Prussian astronomer, born in Berlin. His name is sometimes given as Heinrich Ludwig d'Arrest. While still a student,...
- female, 90 years old
- Venetia Phair (née Burney was the first person to suggest the name Pluto for the planet discovered by Clyde W. Tombaugh in 1930. At the time, she w...
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