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March 14th

1835 - Birth of Giovanni Schiaparelli, Italian astronomer

1854 - Birth of Paul Ehrlich, German scientist, Nobel Prize laureate

1879 - Birth of Albert Einstein, German-born physicist, Nobel Prize laureate

1882 - Birth of Waclaw Sierpinski, Polish mathematician

1995 - Death of William Alfred Fowler, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate

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