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Births
1723 – Tobias Mayer, German astronomer
1781 – René Laënnec, French physician
1792 – Karl Ernst von Baer, German biologist
1796 – Philipp Franz von Siebold, German physician
1888 – Otto Stern, German physicist and Nobel Prize laureate
Deaths
1600 – Giordano Bruno, Italian philosopher
1680 – Jan Swammerdam, Dutch biologist