Births
1725 - Nicolas Desmarest, French geologist
1827 - Jean Albert Gaudry, French geologist
1853 - Albrecht Kossel, German physician and Nobel Prize laureate
1893 - Albert Szent-Györgyi, Hungarian physiologist and Nobel Prize laureate
Deaths
1736 - Gabriel Fahrenheit, German physicist
1925 - Alexander Alexandrovich Friedman, Russian physicist
1932 - Ronald Ross, English physician and Nobel Prize laureate
1980 - Jean Piaget, Swiss psychologist
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