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Births

1744 - Pierre-Joseph Desault, French anatomist and surgeon

1853 - Ignacij KlemenÄiÄ, Slovenian physicist

1892 - William Parry Murphy, American physician and Nobel Prize laureate

1913 - Mary Leakey, British anthropologist

Deaths

1617 - Prospero Alpini, Italian scientist

1833 - Pierre André Latreille, French entomologist

1950 - Georges Imbert, Alsatian chemist

1991 - Salvador Luria, Italian-born biologist and Nobel Prize laureate

1998 - Haroun Tazieff, French vulcanologist and geologist

2002 - Max Perutz, Austrian-born molecular biologist and Nobel Prize laureate

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