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1559 - Adam Ries, German mathematician
1783 - William Hunter, Scottish anatomist
1949 - Friedrich Bergius, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
1965 - Philip Showalter Hench, American physician, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
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