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1647 - Denis Papin, French physicist and inventor
1834 - Samuel Pierpont Langley, American astronomer
1913 - Bruno Pontecorvo, Italian physicist
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1828 - Franz Joseph Gall, Austrian neuroscientist
1918 - Korbinian Brodmann, German neurologist
1940 - Sir Oliver Joseph Lodge, English physicist, spiritualist, pioneer in wireless telegraphy
1950 - Kirk Bryan, American geologist
1967 - Gregory Goodwin Pincus, American endocrinologist
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