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Births

1651 - Ehrenfried Walther von Tschirnhaus, German mathematician

1755 - Samuel Hahnemann, German physician

1762 - Giovanni Aldini, Italian physicist

1887 - Bernardo Houssay, Argentine physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate

1917 - Robert Burns Woodward, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate

1927 - Marshall Warren Nirenberg, American scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine

Deaths

1813 - Joseph-Louis Lagrange, Italian-born mathematician

1920 - Moritz Cantor, German mathematician

1955 - Teilhard de Chardin, French paleontologist and theologian

1999 - Heinz Fraenkel-Conrat, German-born biochemist

2002 - Yuji Hyakutake, Japanese amateur astronomer, discoverer of Comet Hyakutake (see above)

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