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1728 - Johann Heinrich Lambert, German scientist
1736 - Jean-Baptiste L. Romé de l’Isle, French chemist
1740 - Joseph Montgolfier, French inventor
1850 - Charles Robert Richet, French physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate
1882 - James Franck, German-born physicist, Nobel laureate
1906 - Albert Sabin, American polio researcher
Deaths
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1865 - Johann Franz Encke, German astronomer
1910 - William James, American psychologist and philosopher
1987 - Georg Wittig, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
1990 - Minoru Honda, Japanese astronomer
- 1998 - Frederick Reines, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
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