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1714 - César-François Cassini de Thury, French astronomer
1832 - Sir William Crookes, English physicist and chemist
1898 - Carl Hermann, German physicist
1920 - François Jacob, French biologist, Nobel laureate
Deaths
1940 - Arthur Harden, English chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
1996 - Thomas Kuhn, American philosopher of science
2001 - Donald J. Cram, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
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