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Births

1857 - Alfred Binet, French psychologist

1895 - Igor Tamm, Russian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate

Deaths

1695 - Christiaan Huygens, Dutch scientist

1784 - Torbern Bergman, Swedish chemist

1895 - Johann Josef Loschmidt, Austrian scientist

1934 - Benjamin Baillaud, French astronomer

1939 - Havelock Ellis, British physician

1979 - Sin-Itiro Tomonaga, Japanese physicist, Nobel laureate

1979 - Robert B. Woodward, American chemist, Nobel laureate

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