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Births
1765 – Sylvestre François Lacroix, French mathematician
1868 – Georgy Voronoy, Russian mathematician
1900 – Jan Oort, Dutch astronomer
1906 – Kurt Gödel, Austrian mathematician
1928 – Eugene M. Shoemaker, American astronomer
1941 – K. Barry Sharpless, American chemist, Nobel laureate
Deaths
1858 – Johannes Peter Müller, German physiologist
1946 – Louis Bachelier, French mathematician
1999 – Arthur Leonard Schawlow, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate