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1835 - Ãdám Politzer, Austrian physician
1904 - Otto Robert Frisch, Austrian-born physicist
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1947 - Aaron Ciechanover, Israeli biologist and Nobel Prize laureate
Deaths
1838 - Charles Tennant, Scottish chemist and industrialist
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