1916 Boreas [SEP] discoverer or inventor
1916 Boreas
1916 Boreas, provisional designation , is an eccentric, stony asteroid and near-Earth object of the Amor group, approximately 3 kilometers in diameter. After its discovery in 1953, it became a lost asteroid until 1974. It was named after Boreas from Greek mythology.
Discovery.
"Boreas" was discovered on 1 September 1953, by Belgian astronomer Sylvain Arend at the Royal Observatory of Belgium in Uccle. The asteroid was observed for 2 months and then with time became a lost asteroid. It was
(born 1931)
- 18 July – Paul Foot, journalist and nephew of former Labour Party leader Michael Foot (born 1937)
- 28 July – Francis Crick, scientist, discoverer of the structure of DNA (born 1916)
- 7 August – Bernard Levin, writer and journalist (born 1928)
- 12 August – Godfrey Hounsfield, electrical engineer and inventor, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (born 1919)
- 20 September – Brian Clough, footballer and football manager (