day`s thought booster

194th death anniversary of William Herschel - Frederick William Herschel, KH, FRS was a German-born British astronomer, composer, and brother of Caroline Herschel.

149th death anniversary of Michael Faraday – an English scientist who contributed to the fields of electromagnetism and electrochemistry. His main discoveries include those of electromagnetic induction, diamagnetism and electrolysis.

197th death anniversary of James Watt – a Scottish inventor and mechanical engineer whose improvements to the Newcomen steam engine were fundamental to the changes brought by the Industrial Revolution in both his native Great Britain and the rest of the world.

32nd death anniversary of Truman Capote – an American author, screenwriter, playwright, actor, many of whose short stories, novels, plays, and nonfiction are recognized literary classics, .

108th death anniversary of Antoine Henri Becquerel – a physicist, Nobel laureate, and the discoverer of radioactivity, for work in this field he, along with Marie Skłodowska-Curie and Pierre Curie, received the 1903 Nobel Prize in Physics.

240th death anniversary of David Hume – a Scottish philosopher, historian, economist, and essayist, who is best known today for his highly influential system of radical philosophical empiricism, skepticism, and naturalism.