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1730 - Jan Ingenhousz, Dutch-born British physiologist and botanist
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1874 - Ernst Moro, Austrian physician
1947 - Thomas R. Cech, American chemist and Nobel Prize laureate
Deaths
1632 - Philippe van Lansberge, Flemish astronomer
1779 - Nathan Alcock, English physician
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