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Births

1660 - Hubert Gautier, French scientist and civil engineer

1665 - Giacomo F. Maraldi, French-Italian astronomer

1816 - Charles Frédéric Gerhardt, French chemist

1826 - Karl Gegenbaur, German anatomist

Deaths

1814 - Benjamin Thompson, American physicist

1836 - Claude-Louis Navier, French physicist

1957 - Harald Ulrik Sverdrup, Norwegian meteorologist and oceanographer

1995 - Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, Indian-born astrophysicist, Nobel laureate

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