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1936 - Hiroo Kanamori, Japanese seismologist
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1757 - René Antoine Ferchault de Réaumur, French scientist
1780 - William Cookworthy, English chemist
1887 - Gustav Kirchhoff, German physicist
1931 - Alfons Maria Jakob, German neurologist
1934 - Santiago Ramón y Cajal, Spanish neuroscientist and Nobel Prize laureate
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