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Births

1781 - Johann Baptist von Spix, German scientist

1865 - Erich von Drygalski, German geographer, geophysicist, and polar scientist

1910 - Jacques Monod, French biochemist and Nobel Prize laureate

1925 - Burkhard Heim, German physicist

1963 - Brian Greene, American physicist

Deaths

1752 - Fredric Hasselquist, Swedish naturalist

1940 - Eugene Bleuler, Swiss psychiatrist

1979 - Dennis Gabor, Hungarian physicist and Nobel Prize laureate

1994 - Howard Martin Temin, American geneticist and Nobel Prize laureate

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