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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