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1997 George Wald, biologist, Nobel Prize winner for discovering vitamin A in the retina

1995 Vitali Viktorovich Savitsky, biologist/politician, dies at 40

1995 Jonas Salk, biologist (Polio vaccine), dies of heart failure

1995 Marcus Jan Adriani, biologist/director (Weevers' Duin), dies at 56

1993 Lewis Thomas, biologist, dies of cancer at 80

1991 Fop[pe] I Brouwer, biologist (Everything That Lives and Grows), dies

1988 Nicholas Tinbergen, Dutch/British biologist, dies at 81

1987 Dick Hillenius, Dutch biologist/writer, dies at 59

1983 Albert Claude, Belgian biologist (Nobel 1974), dies at 84

1981 Cyril Dean Darlington, biologist (hereditary mechanisms), dies at 77

1981 Max Delbruck, German/U.S. biologist (Nobel 1969), dies at 74

1975 Julian Huxley, biologist, dies

1974 Abraham Schierbeek, Dutch biologist (Leeuwenhoek), dies at 87

1972 Cornelis J van der Klauw, Dutch biologist/zoologist, dies at 78

1964 Rachel L Carson, U.S. biologist/author (Silent spring), dies at 56

1964 Victor van Straelen, Flemish biologist/paleontologist, dies at 74

1962 William Beebe, U.S. biologist/explorer, dies at 84

1960 Roy Chapman Andrews, U.S. biologist/explorer, dies at 76

1955 Vitali Viktorovich Savitsky, biologist/politician

1952 Pepsi Nunes, marine biologist

1945 Jac[obus] P Thijsse, Dutch biologist (Omgang met planten), dies at 79

1938 Marcus Jan Adriani, biologist/director, Weevers' Duin

1935 J Wouter[us] van Dieren, biologist (Terschelling), dies

1930 Patricia Lindop, radio biologist

1930 Ernest Just, Black biologist, served as VP of American Zoologists

1927 Dick Hillenius, Dutch biologist/writer

1927 Anne McLaren, biologist/zoologist/actress, Things to Come

1920 Francois Jacob, born in France, biologist/bacteriologist, Nobel 1965

1918 John Gray, FRS/marine biologist

1917 Barry Commoner, born in Brooklyn, New York, biologist, Science and Survival

1916 Angeles Alvarino Deleira, biologist/oceanographer/writer

1915 Leo Vroman, Dutch/U.S. poet and biologist

1912 George E Palade, Romanian/U.S. cell biologist, ribosomen, Nobel 1974

1912 Salvador E Luria, Italian/U.S. biologist, Nobel prize 1969

1911 Anatol Rapoport, Russ/US mathem/biologist, game theory

1910 Alexander E Agassiz, U.S. businessman/biologist/geologist, dies at 74

1908 A D Hershey, U.S., biologist, worked with bacteriophages, Nobel 1969

1907 Rachel Louise Carson, biologist/ecologist/writer, Silent Spring

1907 Nicholas Tinbergen, Neth/British biologist/zoologist, Nobel 1973

1906 George Wald, U.S., physiologist/biologist, eye, Nobel 1967

1906 Max Delbruck, German/U.S. biologist, Nobel 1969

1903 Cyril Dean Darlington, England, biologist, hereditary mechanisms

1903 George Beadle, U.S. biologist, Nobel 1958

1902 J Wouterus van Dieren, Dutch biologist, Terschelling

1898 Albert Claude, Belgium, biologist/physician, Nobel 1974

1893 Cornelis J van der Klauw, Dutch biologist/zoologist

1889 Victor van Straelen, Flemish biologist/palaeontologist

1888 Spencer F Baird, U.S. biologist (Wood's Hole Station), dies at 65

1887 Abraham Schierbeek, Dutch biologist, Swammerdam

1887 Julian S Huxley, London, biologist/philosopher, Darwin's Bulldog

1883 Ernest E Just, biologist, pioneered cell division

1879 Agnes Arber, English biologist/philosopher, Mind and the Eye

1873 Waclaw Rawicz, [Berent], Warsaw Poland, biologist/writer

1873 Alexis Carrel, France, surgeon/sociologist/biologist, Nobel 1912

1866 Thomas Hunt Morgan, U.S., biologist, Nobel-1933

1865 Jac[obus] P Thijsse, Dutch biologist/educator, Contact with Plants

1861 William Bateson, English biologist, originator of term "genetics"

1854 Caspar GC Reinwardt, German/Dutch biologist, dies at 80

1851 David Starr Jordan, New York, biologist/university President, Leland Stanford

1835 Alexander E Agassiz, U.S., businessman/biologist/geology

1834 Ernst Heinrich Haeckel, Potsdam Germ, biologist, Causes of Evolution

1823 Spencer F Baird, U.S. biologist, Wood's Hole Station

1807 Michel Adanson, French biologist (Plant classes), dies at 79

1777 Albrecht von Haller, Swiss physician/biologist/author, dies at 69

1773 Caspar G C Reinwardt, German/Dutch biologist

1759 Pierre-Louis Moreau de Maupertuis, biologist/astronomer, dies at 60

1727 Michel Adanson, French biologist, Natural History of Senegal

1723 Thonis van Leeuwenhoek, biologist/inventor (microscope), dies at 90

1705 Peter Arctedius, [Artedi], Swedish biologist

1683 Rene-Antoine de Reaumur, France, biologist/engineer

1605 Ulisse Aldrovandi, Italian biologist/medical, dies at 82

1522 Ulisse Aldrovandi, Italian biologist/medical



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