Births
1795 - Wilhelm Karl Ritter von Haidinger, Austrian mineralogist
1910 - Charles Leblond, Canadian cell biologist
1914 - Alan Lloyd Hodgkin, British physiologist and Nobel Prize laureate
1915 - Robert Hofstadter, American physicist and Nobel Prize laureate
Deaths
1790 - William Cullen, Scottish physician and chemist
1977 - Oskar Klein, Swedish physicist
1992 - Miguel Rolando Covian, Brazilian physiologist
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