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Deaths
1904 - Karl Alfred von Zittel, German palaeontologist
1922 - Ernest Shackleton, Irish explorer
1970 - Max Born, German physicist and Nobel Prize laureate
1981 - Harold C. Urey, American chemist and Nobel Prize laureate
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