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Births

1808 - Karl Andree, German geographer

1891 - James Chadwick, English physicist and Nobel Prize laureate

1942 - Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard, German biologist and Nobel Prize laureate

Deaths

1631 - Michael Maestlin, German astronomer and mathematician

1713 - Archibald Pitcairne, Scottish physician

1972 - Harlow Shapley, American astronomer

1984 - Carl Ferdinand Cori, Austrian-born biochemist and Nobel Prize laureate

1984 - Paul Dirac, English physicist