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Births
1667 – Abraham de Moivre, French mathematician
1669 – Sébastien Vaillant, French botanist
Deaths
1883 – Edward Sabine, Irish astronomer
1904 – Georges Gilles de la Tourette, French neurologist
2004 – Nikolai Stepanovich Chernykh, Russian astronomer
May 26, 2007