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Events
1971 – Launch of Salyut 1, the first space station.
Births
1874 – Ernst Rüdin, Swiss psychiatrist, geneticist, and eugenicist
1883 – Richard von Mises, Austrian-born mathematician
1912 – Glenn Seaborg, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
Deaths
1567 – Michael Stifel, German mathematician
1739 – Nicholas Saunderson, English mathematician
1831 – Johann Gottlieb Friedrich von Bohnenberger, German mathematician
1854 – Robert Jameson, Scottish naturalist
1882 – Charles Darwin, English biologist (above)
1906 – Pierre Curie, French physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
1914 – Charles Sanders Peirce, American philosopher and mathematician
1926 – Alexander Alexandrovich Chuprov, Russian statistician
2004 – John Maynard Smith, English evolutionary biologist