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Births

1855 - Clinton Hart Merriam, American ornithologist

1868 - Arnold Sommerfeld, German physicist

1896 - Carl Ferdinand Cori, Austrian-born biochemist and Nobel Prize laureate

1901 - Werner Heisenberg, German physicist and Nobel Prize laureate

1903 - Cecil Frank Powell, British physicist and Nobel Prize laureate

1907 - Giuseppe Occhialini, Italian physicist

1932 - Sheldon Lee Glashow, American physicist and Nobel Prize laureate

Deaths

1624 - Gaspard Bauhin, Swiss botanist

1965 - Joseph Erlanger, American physiologist and Nobel Prize laureate

2001 - Franco Rasetti, Italian physicist

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