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Events
1996 – Comet Hyakutake is discovered by Japanese amateur astronomer Yuji Hyakutake.
Births
1720 – Charles De Geer, Swedish industrialist and entomologist
1822 – Franz Ritter von Hauer, Austrian geologist
1899 – Max Theiler, South African virologist and Nobel Prize laureate
1949 – Peter Agre, American biologist and Nobel Prize laureate
Deaths
1858 – Coenraad Jacob Temminck, Dutch zoologist
1928 – Johannes Andreas Grib Fibiger, Danish scientist and Nobel Prize laureate
1962 – Manuel de Abreu, Brazilian physician
1991 – John Bardeen, American physicist
1995 – Gerald Durrell, British naturalist, zookeeper, author, and television presenter