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Births

1525 - Tadeáš Hájek, Czech physician and astronomer

1580 - Nicolas-Claude Fabri de Peiresc, French astronomer

1743 - Martin Heinrich Klaproth, German chemist

1925 - Martin Rodbell, American scientist and Nobel Prize laureate

Deaths

1729 - Giacomo F. Maraldi, French-Italian astronomer

1750 - Johan Gabriel Doppelmayr, German mathematician, astronomer, and cartographer

1964 - J. B. S. Haldane, Scottish geneticist

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