 1668 - Hermann Boerhaave born: physician and chemist, Elementa Chemia. |
| 1808 - Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac read his memoir on combining volumes of gases to the Philomathic Society of Arcueil. |
| 1881 - Colin G. Fink born: electrochemical research, development, industry, and education; president of the Electrochemical Society. |
| 1921 - Gilbert Stork born: organic synthesis; first stereorational synthesis (cantharidin, 1951); stereoselective total synthesis of quinine. |
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