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Births
1638 – Frederik Ruysch, Dutch physician and anatomist
1749 – Pierre Simon de Laplace, French mathematician and astronomer
1754 – Baron Jurij Vega, Slovenian mathematician, physicist, and artillery officer
1769 – William Smith, English cartographer (see above) and “Father of English Geology”
1881 – Hermann Staudinger, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
1882 – Emmy Noether, German mathematician
1907 – Daniel Bovet, Swiss-born scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
1912 – Wernher von Braun, German-born physicist and engineer
1933 – Philip Zimbardo, American psychologist, known for the Stanford prison experiment
1934 – Ludvig Faddeev, Russian mathematician