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Births

1811 - James Young Simpson, British obstetrician

1862 - Philipp Lenard, Austrian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate

1877 - Charles Glover Barkla, English physicist, Nobel Prize laureate

1896 - Robert S. Mulliken, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate

Deaths

1826 - Joseph von Fraunhofer, German physicist

1954 - Alan Turing, British mathematician and computer scientist

1967 - Anatoly Maltsev, Russian mathematician

1978 - Ronald George Wreyford Norrish, British chemist, Nobel Prize laureate

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