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1918 - Bertram N. Brockhouse, Canadian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
1921 - Robert Bruce Merrifield, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
1922 - Leon M. Lederman, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
1928 - Carl Woese, American microbiologist
1943 - Jocelyn Bell Burnell, Irish astrophysicist
Deaths
1919 - Hermann Emil Fischer, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
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