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Events
1936 – Alan Turing submits On Computable Numbers for publication.
Births
1676 – Jacopo Riccati, Italian mathematician
1738 – Joseph-Ignace Guillotin, French physician
1807 – Louis Agassiz, Swiss-born zoologist and geologist
1836 – Alexander Mitscherlich, German chemist
1872 – Marian Smoluchowski, Polish physicist
1942 – Stanley B. Prusiner, American scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
Deaths
1937 – Alfred Adler, Austrian psychologist
1980 – Rolf Nevanlinna, Finnish mathematician
2001 – Francisco Varela, Chilean biologist and philosopher
2003 – Ilya Prigogine, Russian-born physicist and chemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry