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Births

1918 - Derek Harold Richard Barton, British chemist and Nobel laureate

Deaths

1811 - Peter Simon Pallas, German zoologist

1894 - Hermann von Helmholtz, German physician and physicist

1965 - Hermann Staudinger, German chemist and Nobel laureate

1980 - Willard Libby, American chemist and Nobel laureate

1981 - Hideki Yukawa, Japanese physicist and Nobel laureate

1985 - John Franklin Enders, American scientist and Nobel laureate

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