1625: Death of Johann Bayer, German astronomer (born 1572). He published the first modern atlas of stars, partly based on Tycho Brahe's observations.

1765: Birth of Nicéphore Niépce, French inventor of photography (died 1833).

1792: Birth of John Herschel, English mathematician and astronomer (died 1871)

1996 - The Hubble Space Telescope makes the first pictures of the surface of Pluto.