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