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Births

1644 - Ole Rømer, Danish astronomer

1773 - Agostino Bassi, Italian entomologist

1798 - Jean-Baptiste Ãlie de Beaumont, French geologist

1839 - Karl Alfred von Zittel, German palaeontologist

1866 - Thomas Hunt Morgan, American geneticist and Nobel Prize laureate

Deaths

1986 - Nikolay Nikolayevich Semyonov, Russian chemist and Nobel Prize laureate

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