Births
1723 - Tobias Mayer, German astronomer
1781 - René Laënnec, French physician
1792 - Karl Ernst von Baer, German biologist
1796 - Philipp Franz von Siebold, German physician
1888 - Otto Stern, German physicist and Nobel Prize laureate
Deaths
1600 - Giordano Bruno, Italian philosopher
1680 - Jan Swammerdam, Dutch biologist
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