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Births

1717 - Louis Guillaume Lemonnier, French botanist

1869 - Hans Spemann, German embryologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine

1931 - Martinus J. G. Veltman, Dutch physicist, Nobel Prize laureate

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