1997 Death Roger John Tayler, astrophysicist, dies at 67 1996 Death Victor Ambartsumian, astrophysicist, dies at 87 1996 Death Thornton Page, astrophysicist, dies at 82 1967 Death Ejnar Hertzsprung, Danish astrophysicist, dies at 94 1954 Birthday George E. Mahlberg, Astrophysicist, Mount Palomar/Mount Wilson California, 1974 - 1978 1953 Birthday Sallie L. Baliunas, born in New York, New York, astrophysicist, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, cited as one of America's outstanding women scientists 1936 Birthday Fang Lizhi, Chinese astrophysicist/dissident 1929 Birthday Roger John Tayler, astrophysicist 1911 Birthday William A Fowler, U.S., astrophysicist, Nobel 1983 1910 Birthday Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, India, astrophysicist, Nobel 1983 1908 Birthday Bengt Stromgren, Goteborg Sweden, astrophysicist, studied gas cloud 1882 Birthday Arthur Eddington, born in England, astrophysicist, cosmologist, and mathematician 1878 Birthday George Hoyt Whipple, U.S., astrophysicist, Nobel-1934 1877 Birthday James J Jeans, cosmologist/astrophysicist, Mysterious Universe
