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Births

1707 - Carolus Linnaeus, Swedish botanist

1718 - William Hunter, Scottish anatomist

1734 - Franz Anton Mesmer, Austrian physician/hypnotist

1887 - Thoralf Skolem, Norwegian mathematician

1893 - Ulysses S. Grant IV, American geologist and paleontologist

1908 - John Bardeen, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate

1917 - Edward Norton Lorenz, American mathematician and meteorologist

1925 - Joshua Lederberg, American molecular biologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine

Deaths

1691 - Adrien Auzout, French astronomer

1857 - Augustin Louis Cauchy, French mathematician

1895 - Franz Ernst Neumann, German mineralogist and physicist

2004 - Ramon Margalef, Spanish scientist

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