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Births

1605 - Ismael Bullialdus, French astronomer

1852 - Henri Moissan, French chemist and Nobel Prize laureate

1939 - Stuart Kauffman, American biologist

Deaths

1694 - Gabriel Mouton, French scientist

1895 - Louis Pasteur, French scientist

1953 - Edwin Hubble, American astronomer

1979 - John Herbert Chapman, Canadian physicist

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