Birth and Death - Thomas Young

Thomas Young was a British polymath and physician. Young made notable scientific contributions to the fields of vision, light, solid mechanics, energy, physiology, language, musical harmony, and Egyptology. He "made a number of original and insightful innovations" 
in the decipherment of Egyptian hieroglyphs.
                      He was born in 13 June 1773 and died in London on 10 May 1829, and was buried in the cemetery of St. Giles Church in Farnborough, Kent, England. Westminster Abbey houses a white marble tablet in memory of Young bearing an epitaph by Hudson Gurney.

                                    Here is his picture: