Births
1845 - Zygmunt Florenty Wróblewski, Polish physicist
1912 - Richard Doll, English epidemiologist
1914 - Richard Laurence Millington Synge, British biochemist and Nobel Prize laureate
Deaths
1792 - Paul Möhring, German physician and scientist
1841 - Johan August Arfwedson, Swedish chemist
1877 - Robert Swinhoe, British naturalist
1957 - Ernst Gräfenberg, German physician and scientist
2005 - Richard Smalley, American chemist and Nobel Prize laureate
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