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1802 - Heinrich Gustav Magnus, German chemist and physicist
1939 - Sumio Iijima, Japanese physicist
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1927 - Ernest Starling, British physiologist
1979 - Giulio Natta, Italian chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
1997 - John Carew Eccles, Australian neurophysiologist, Nobel laureate
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