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1794 - Branded a traitor during the Reign of Terror by revolutionists, French chemist Antoine Lavoisier, who was also a tax collector with the Ferme Générale, was tried, convicted, and guillotined all on one day in Paris.
Births
1842 - Emil Christian Hansen, Danish physiologist
1859 - Johan Jensen, Danish mathematician
1902 - Andre Michael Lwoff, Nobel laureate
1947 - H. Robert Horvitz, Nobel laureate
Deaths
1788 - Giovanni Antonio Scopoli, Italian-born physician and naturalist
1794 - Antoine Lavoisier, French chemist
1960 - J. H. C. Whitehead, British mathematician
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