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Births

1845 - Zygmunt Florenty Wróblewski, Polish physicist

1912 - Richard Doll, English epidemiologist

1914 - Richard Laurence Millington Synge, British biochemist and Nobel Prize laureate

Deaths

1792 - Paul Möhring, German physician and scientist

1841 - Johan August Arfwedson, Swedish chemist

1877 - Robert Swinhoe, British naturalist

1957 - Ernst Gräfenberg, German physician and scientist

2005 - Richard Smalley, American chemist and Nobel Prize laureate

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