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Births
1728 – Johann Heinrich Lambert, German scientist
1736 – Jean-Baptiste L. Romé de l’Isle, French chemist
1740 – Joseph Montgolfier, French inventor
1850 – Charles Robert Richet, French physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate
1882 – James Franck, German-born physicist, Nobel laureate
1906 – Albert Sabin, American polio researcher
Deaths
1723 – Anton van Leeuwenhoek, Dutch scientist
1865 – Johann Franz Encke, German astronomer
1910 – William James, American psychologist and philosopher
1987 – Georg Wittig, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
1990 – Minoru Honda, Japanese astronomer
- 1998 – Frederick Reines, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate