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2012 Event - Richard Dawkins, an atheist, ethologist and evolutionary biologist, approves of British education secretary Michael Gove's plan of sending free King James Bibles to every state school

2011 Event - Lynn Margulis, an American evolutionary biologist, dies at age 73

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

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

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

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

1993 Death - Lewis Thomas, biologist, dies of cancer at 80

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

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

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

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

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

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

1975 Death - Julian Huxley, biologist, dies

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

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

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

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

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

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

1955 Birthday - Vitali Viktorovich Savitsky, biologist/politician

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

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

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

1930 Birthday - Patricia Lindop, radio biologist

1930 Birthday - Ernest Just, Black biologist, served as Vice President of American Zoologists

1927 Birthday - Dick Hillenius, Dutch biologist/writer

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

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

1918 Birthday - John Gray, FRS/marine biologist

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

1916 Birthday - Angeles Alvarino Deleira, biologist/oceanographer/writer

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

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

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

1911 Birthday - Anatol Rapoport, Russian/US mathem/biologist, game theory

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

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

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

1907 Birthday - Nicholas Tinbergen, Netherlands/British biologist/zoologist, Nobel 1973

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

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

1903 Birthday - Cyril Dean Darlington, England, biologist, hereditary mechanisms

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

1902 Birthday - J Wouterus van Dieren, Dutch biologist, Terschelling

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

1893 Birthday - Cornelis J van der Klauw, Dutch biologist/zoologist

1889 Birthday - Victor van Straelen, Flemish biologist/palaeontologist

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

1887 Birthday - Abraham Schierbeek, Dutch biologist, Swammerdam

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

1883 Birthday - Ernest E Just, biologist, pioneered cell division

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

1873 Birthday - Waclaw Rawicz, Berent, Warsaw Poland, biologist/writer

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

1773 Birthday - Caspar G C Reinwardt, German/Dutch biologist

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

1727 Birthday - Michel Adanson, French biologist, Natural History of Senegal

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

1705 Birthday - Peter Arctedius, Swedish biologist

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

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

1522 Birthday - Ulisse Aldrovandi, Italian biologist/medical

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