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Births

1618 - Francesco Maria Grimaldi, Italian mathematician and physicist

1923 - G. Spencer-Brown, English mathematician

1934 - Paul Joseph Cohen, American mathematician

Deaths

1742 - James Douglas, Scottish physician and anatomist

1827 - Ludwig Heinrich Bojanus, German physician and naturalist

1922 - Hermann Rorschach, Swiss psychologist (see above)

1928 - Theodore William Richards, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate

1995 - Hannes Alfvén, Swedish physicist

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Gack! Ecto again.

By John Lynch (not verified) on 01 Apr 2007 #permalink