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Births

1731 - Henry Cavendish, British scientist

1780 - John Abercrombie, Scottish physician

1930 - Yves Chauvin, French chemist and Nobel Prize laureate

Deaths

1708 - David Gregory, Scottish astronomer

1876 - Charles Joseph Sainte-Claire Deville, French geologist

1930 - Adolf Engler, German botanist

1986 - Gleb Wataghin, Ukrainian-Italian physicist

2006 - Michael John Rogers, English ornithologist

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