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1625 - Rasmus Bartholin, Danish physician, mathematician, and physicist
1814 - Anders Jonas Ãngström, Swedish physicist
1819 - George Gabriel Stokes, French physicist
1872 - Richard Willstätter, German chemist, Nobel Prize Laureate
1912 - Salvador Luria, Italian-born biologist, Nobel Prize Laureate
1918 - Frederick Sanger, English chemist, Nobel Prize Laureate
Deaths
1826 - René Laënnec, French physician
1865 - Ignaz Semmelweis, Austro-Hungarian physician
1910 - Florence Nightingale, English nurse
1917 - Eduard Buchner, German chemist, Nobel Prize Laureate
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