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Births

1931 - John Robert Schrieffer, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate

1941 - Louis J. Ignarro, American pharmacologist, Nobel Prize laureate

Deaths

1799 - Pierre Lemonnier, French astronomer

1832 - Ãvariste Galois, French mathematician

1910 - Elizabeth Blackwell, American physician

1976 - Jacques Monod, French biologist, Nobel laureate

1986 - James Rainwater, American physicist, Nobel laureate

2006 - Raymond Davis Jr., American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate

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