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Births 1777 - Hans Christian Ãrsted, Danish physicist 1840 - Richard von Krafft-Ebing, German psychologist 1933 - Richard R. Ernst, Nobel Prize Laureate Deaths 1774 - Johann Jakob Reiske, German physician 1856 - Constant PrÃ©vost, French geologist 1860 - AndrÃ© Marie Constant DumÃ©ril, French…

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Births 1801 - Mikhail Vasilievich Ostrogradsky, Ukrainian scientist 1802 - Adolphe d’Archaic, French paleontologist and geologist 1870 - Georges Claude, French chemist and inventor 1895 - AndrÃ© FrÃ©dÃ©ric Cournand, French physiologist and Nobel Prize laureate Deaths 1541 - Paracelsus, Swiss…

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Births 1646 (O.S.) - Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, German philosopher and scientist 1781 - SimÃ©on-Denis Poisson, French mathematician and physicist 1791 - Robert Napier, British engineer 1805 - Charles Thomas Jackson, American scientist, polymath 1811 - Carlo Matteucci, Italian physicist 1823 -…

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Births 1754 - George Crabbe, English naturalist 1817 - Achille Ernest Oscar Joseph Delesse, French geologist 1821 - Elizabeth Blackwell, American physician 1912 - Jacques Soustelle, French anthropologist 1920 - Henry Heimlich, American physician Deaths 1862 - Jean-Baptiste Biot, French physicist…

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