February 8th
1677 – Birth of Jacques Cassini, French astronomer
1700 – Birth of Daniel Bernoulli, Dutch-born mathematician
1807 – Birth of Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins, English naturalist
1834 – Birth of Dmitri Mendeleyev, Russian chemist
1856 – Death of Agostino Bassi, Italian entomologist
1907 – Death of Hendrik Willem Bakhuis Roozeboom, Dutch chemist
1957 – Death of John von Neumann, Hungarian-born mathematician and physicist
1975 – Death of Robert Robinson, British chemist and Nobel Prize laureate
