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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
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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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