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Births

1761 - Gian Domenico Romagnosi, Italian physicist

1781 - Sir David Brewster, Scottish physicist

1843 - Robert Koch, German bacteriologist and Nobel Prize laureate

1863 - Annie Jump Cannon, American astronomer

1882 - Max Born, German physicist and Nobel Prize laureate

1925 - Paul Greengard, American neuroscientist and Nobel Prize laureate

Deaths

1797 - Richard Brocklesby, English physician

1950 - Leslie Comrie, New Zealand astronomer

1978 - Vincent du Vigneaud, American chemist and Nobel Prize laureate

1998 - André Lichnerowicz, Polish-French physicist