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Events

1826 - Samuel Morey patents the internal combustion engine.

Births

1578 - William Harvey, English physician who described the flow of blood though the human body (see above)

1776 - Sophie Germain, French mathematician

1856 - Acacio Gabriel Viegas, Indian physician

1865 - Richard Adolf Zsigmondy, Austrian-born chemist, Nobel Prize laureate

1908 - Abraham Maslow, American psychologist

1919 - Joseph Murray, American surgeon, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine

1933 - Claude Cohen-Tannoudji, French physicist, Nobel Prize laureate

1947 - Alain Connes, French mathematician

Deaths

1950 - Charles R. Drew, American physician

1968 - Lev Davidovich Landau, Russian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate