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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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1844 - Harvey W. Wiley, American chemist
1847 - Galileo Ferraris, Italian physicist
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