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Births
1688 – Emanuel Swedenborg, Swedish scientist and philosopher
1846 – Karol Olszewski, Polish scientist
1901 – Allen B. DuMont, American scientist and inventor
1926 – Abdus Salam, Pakistani physicist and Nobel Prize laureate
1947 – Linda B. Buck, American scientist and Nobel Prize laureate
Deaths
1934 – Fritz Haber, German chemist and Nobel Prize laureate