An undated photograph of the Russian chemist Dmitri Mendeleev (public domain; https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:%D0%94%D0%BC%D0%B8%D1%82%D1%80%D0%B8%D0%B9_%D0%98%D0%B2%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%B8%D1%87_%D0%9C%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BB%D0%B5%D0%B5%D0%B2_12.jpg).
The Russian chemist #DmitriMendeleev, who formulated the #periodiclaw and created a version of the #periodictable of elements, was born on 8 February in 1834 according to the Gregorian calendar (27 January by the Julian calendar).