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Events

1983 - Pioneer 10 becomes the first manmade object to leave the solar system.

Births

1773 - Thomas Young, English scientist

1831 - James Clerk Maxwell, Scottish physicist

1876 - William Sealey Gosset, English chemist

1894 - Leo Kanner, Austrian-American physician

1911 - Luis Alvarez, American physicist, Nobel laureate

1911 - Erwin Müller, German-born physicist

1928 - John Forbes Nash, American mathematician, Nobel laureate

Deaths

1881 - Josef Skoda, Czech physician

1931 - Shibasaburo Kitasato, Japanese physician

1972 - Georg von Békésy, Hungarian biophysicist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine

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