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1688 - Emanuel Swedenborg, Swedish scientist and philosopher
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1901 - Allen B. DuMont, American scientist and inventor
1926 - Abdus Salam, Pakistani physicist and Nobel Prize laureate
1947 - Linda B. Buck, American scientist and Nobel Prize laureate
Deaths
1934 - Fritz Haber, German chemist and Nobel Prize laureate
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