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Deaths
1925 - Josef Breuer, Austrian psychologist
1958 - Kurt Alder, German chemist, Nobel laureate
2002 - Erwin Chargaff, Austrian biochemist
2005 - Jack Kilby, American electrical engineer, Nobel laureate
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