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Births
1785- Claude-Louis Navier, French physicist
1846 – Ira Remsen, American chemist
1897 – John Franklin Enders, American virologist and Nobel Prize laureate
1902 – Walter Houser Brattain, American physicist and Nobel Prize laureate
Deaths
1865 – Heinrich Lenz, German physicist
1923 – Wilhelm Röntgen, German physicist and Nobel Prize laureate
1944 – Eugène Michel Antoniadi, Greek astronomer
1952 – Henry Drysdale Dakin, British-American biochemist