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Births
1712 – Claude Bourgelat, French veterinary surgeon
1817 – Karl Wilhelm von Nägeli, Swiss biologist
1845 – Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen, German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
1847 – Otto Wallach, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
1847 – Otto Wallach, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
1857 – Karl Pearson, English statistician
1897 – Douglas Hartree, English mathematical physicist
1942 – John E. Sulston, British chemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
Deaths
1850 – Wilhelm Beer, German astronomer
1910 – Alexander Emanuel Agassiz, American scientist
1923 – Sir James Dewar, Scottish chemist
1967 – Jaroslav Heyrovský, Czech chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
1998 – David McClelland, American psychologist
March 27, 2007