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Births

1812 - Johann Gottfried Galle, German astronomer

1875 - Henry Hallett Dale, English scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine

1937 - Harald Rosenthal, German biologist

Deaths

1875 - Gérard Paul Deshayes, French geologist

1959 - Adolf Otto Reinhold Windaus, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate

1989 - George Wells Beadle, American geneticist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine

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