1996 Death Andrew Rodger Waterson, scholar Naturalist, dies at 84 1996 Death Hugh Edward Lance Falkus, filmmaker/naturalist, dies at 78 1996 Death Madhaviah Krishnan, naturalist, dies at 83 1995 Death Michael Clegg, naturalist/broadcaster, dies at 62 1985 Death Dian Fossey, U.S. naturalist (Gorillas in Mist), found dead in Rwanda 1948 Birthday Diane Ackerman, born in Waukegan, Illinois, American poet, author and naturalist, wrote 'Wife of Light' and 'A Natural History of Love' 1944 Death Max Halbe, born in Guttland, now Kozliny, Germany, writer, dramatist, Naturalist movement literary style, works include 'Jugend', dies in Neuotting, Bavaria, at age 79 1943 Death Pieter Zeeman, naturalist (Nobel 1902), dies 1932 Birthday Jim Fowler, born in Albany, Georgia, naturalist, Wild Kingdom 1926 Birthday David Attenborough, naturalist 1917 Birthday Hugh Edward Lance Falkus, filmmaker/naturalist 1912 Birthday Madhaviah Krishnan, naturalist 1912 Birthday Andrew Rodger Waterson, scholar/naturalist 1910 Birthday Joy Adamson, naturalist/author, Born Free 1893 Birthday Joseph W. Krutch, U.S. naturalist, Was Europe a Success? 1893 Death Joseph W. Krutch, U.S. naturalist (Was Europe a Success?), dies 1892 Death Henry Walter Bates, naturalist/explorer (South America), dies 1887 Death Richard Jeffries, naturalist/essayist, dies 1882 Birthday James Franck, German naturalist, Nobel 1925 1877 Death Jared Kirtland, U.S. physician/naturalist, dies 1865 Birthday Max Halbe, born in Guttland, now Kozliny, Germany, writer, dramatist, Naturalist movement literary style, works include 'Jugend' 1864 Birthday Carl Ethan Akeley, U.S., naturalist, devoleped animal mount process 1861 Birthday Pierre M M Duhem, French naturalist/philosopher/historian 1860 Birthday Ernest T Seton, naturalist/painter/author, Buffalo Wind-1938 1849 Birthday Abbott Handerson Thayer, painter/naturalist 1839 Birthday Nikolay Przhevalsky, naturalist, explorer of east central Asia, OS 1838 Birthday John Muir, U.S., naturalist/discoverer, glaciers in High Seirras 1832 Birthday Julius von Sachs, botanist/naturalist 1817 Birthday Henry David Thoreau, born in Concord, Massachusetts, naturalist/pacifist, Walden Pond 1814 Birthday Galen Clark, U.S., naturalist and discovered Mariposa Grove 1807 Birthday Louis Agassiz, born in Switzerland, naturalist, geologist, and teacher 1799 Birthday Titian Ramsey Peale, U.S., artist/naturalist, American Ornithology 1796 Birthday William McGillivray, Old Aberdeen, naturalist 1793 Birthday Jared Kirtland, U.S., physician/naturalist/reformed penitentiaries 1793 Death Gilbert White, naturalist/cleric, dies 1792 Birthday Karl Ernst von Baler, Russia, naturalist, discovered human ovum 1782 Birthday Charles Waterton, eccentric naturalist/pioneer 1699 Birthday John Bartram, naturalist/explorer, father of American botany 1660 Birthday Hans Sloane, England, physician/naturalist/founder, British Museum 1632 Birthday Antony van Leeuwenhoek, Hol, naturalist, Philosophical Transactions 1565 Death Konrad von Gesner, naturalist, dies at 49 1516 Birthday Konrad von Gesner, born in Zurich, Switzerland, naturalist, Bibliotheca Universalis