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Births

1765 - Sylvestre François Lacroix, French mathematician

1868 - Georgy Voronoy, Russian mathematician

1900 - Jan Oort, Dutch astronomer

1906 - Kurt Gödel, Austrian mathematician

1928 - Eugene M. Shoemaker, American astronomer

1941 - K. Barry Sharpless, American chemist, Nobel laureate

Deaths

1858 - Johannes Peter Müller, German physiologist

1946 - Louis Bachelier, French mathematician

1999 - Arthur Leonard Schawlow, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate