10 notable people died on March 3, including Gerhard Herzberg, Ruhollah Khomeini, Rudolph Goclenius the Younger.
20th Century
2 deaths
Gerhard Herzberg
scientist
Nobel laureate: Nobel Prize in Chemistry (1971)
Ruhollah Khomeini
akhoondcleric
Supreme Leader of Iran from 1979 to 1989
19th Century
5 deaths
John Stevens
engineerinventor
American lawyer, engineer and inventor (1749-1838)
Robert Mills
architectengineer
American architect
Hippolyte Cloquet
anatomistbotanist
French physician, anatomist and naturalist
Achille Collas
engineerinventor
French inventor (1795–1859)
Jean Dembarrère
military engineermilitary personnel
French politician (1747-1828)
17th Century
2 deaths
Rudolph Goclenius the Younger
astronomermathematician
German physician and professor of physics, astronomy and arithmetic
Johann Baptist Cysat
astronomermathematician
Swiss Jesuit mathematician and astronomer (1585-1657)
16th Century
1 death
Mạc Thái Tông
monarch
Second Emperor of the Mạc dynasty
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