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1754 - George Crabbe, English naturalist
1817 - Achille Ernest Oscar Joseph Delesse, French geologist
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1912 - Jacques Soustelle, French anthropologist
1920 - Henry Heimlich, American physician
Deaths
1862 - Jean-Baptiste Biot, French physicist
1929 - Agner Krarup Erlang, Danish scientist
2005 - Ernst Mayr, German-born evolutionary biologist
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