1965 - James Gunn[?] and Bruce Peterson[?] use observations of the relatively low absorption of the blue component of the Lyman-alpha line[?] from 3C9[?] to strongly constrain the density and ionization state of the intergalactic medium
... 20 - Dmitri Ivanovich Mendeleev, Russian chemist and inventor of the Periodic table
May 19 - Auguste Molinier, French historian
July 14 - Anton Chekhov, Russian ...