Events
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1577 - Paul Guldin, Swiss astronomer and mathematician
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1899 - Fritz Albert Lipmann, American biochemist, Nobel laureate (d. 1986)
1942 - Bert Sakmann, German physiologist, Nobel laureate
Deaths
1982 - Karl von Frisch, Austrian zoologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
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