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Births

1850 - Henri Louis le Chatelier, French chemist

1883 - Otto Heinrich Warburg, German physician and Nobel Prize laureate

1917 - Rodney Robert Porter, English biochemist and Nobel Prize laureate

1927 - César Milstein, Argentine scientist and Nobel Prize laureate

Deaths

1647 - Christian Sørensen Longomontanus, Danish astronomer

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