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1936 - The last surviving thylacine dies at the Hobart Zoo.
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1707 - Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon, French naturalist
1829 - Friedrich August Kekulé von Stradonitz, German organic chemist
1836 - August Toepler, German physicist
1914 - James Van Allen, American space scientist
1917 - John Cornforth, Australian chemist and Nobel laureate
Deaths
1799 - Louis Guillaume Lemonnier, French botanist
1991 - Edwin McMillan, American physicist
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As a biologist, and an expectant father, (in no particular order) I mourn the loss of any large marsupial. Whether known as the "thylacine" or "Tasmanian wolf" is insignificant; we'd lost yet another part of our planetary biological heritage. Let us not forget the memory of the loss of one of the largest and most emotive of the marsupials, albeit 71 years later.