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1821 - Hermann von Helmholtz, German physician
1913 - Bernard Lovell, British radio astronomer
1949 - H. David Politzer, American physicist, Nobel laureate
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1772 - William Borlase, English naturalist
1869 - Mary Ward, Irish scientist, first automobile accident victim
1920 - Wilhelm Wundt, German psychologist
1985 - Frank Macfarlane Burnet, Australian biologist, Nobel laureate
2002 - George Porter, English chemist, Nobel laureate
2005 - Joseph Rotblat, Polish-British physicist
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