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Births
1627 – John Ray, English naturalist
1762 – Pierre André Latreille, French zoologist
1803 – Christian Doppler, Austrian physicist
1825 – Jean-Martin Charcot, French neurologist
1849 – John Ambrose Fleming, British physicist
1857 – Theodor Escherich, German pediatrician
1874 – Egas Moniz, Portuguese physician, neurologist and Nobel Prize laureate
Deaths
1694 – Marcello Malpighi, Italian physician