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Births

1732 - Johan Wilcke, Swedish physicist

1766 - John Dalton, British chemist and physicist

1802 - Alcide d’Orbigny, French naturalist

1829 - Marie Zakrzewska, Polish physician

1876 - John James Richard Macleod, Scottish-born physician, physiologist, and Nobel laureate

1892 - Sir Edward Appleton, English physicist and Nobel laureate

1906 - Luis Federico Leloir, French-born chemist and Nobel laureate

1939 - Susumu Tonegawa, Japanese molecular biologist and Nobel laureate

1943 - Richard J. Roberts, English biochemist and Nobel laureate

Deaths

1635 - Metius, Dutch mathematician and astronomer

1902 - Frederick Augustus Abel, English chemist