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Births

1640 - Robert Plot, English naturalist

1662 - Francesco Bianchini, Italian philosopher and scientist

1724 - Franz Aepinus, German scientist

1867 - Kristian Birkeland, Norwegian explorer and scientist

1923 - Philip Warren Anderson, American physicist and Nobel Prize laureate

Deaths

1565 - Conrad Gessner, Swiss naturalist

1783 - Pehr Wilhelm Wargentin, Swedish astronomer

1868 - Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius, German botanist

1895 - Anyos Jedlik, Hungarian physicist

1919 - Woldemar Voigt, German physicist

1930 - Fritz Pregl, Slovenian/Austrian chemist and Nobel Prize laureate

1935 - Victor Grignard, French chemist and Nobel Prize laureate

1955 - Egas Moniz, Portuguese neurosurgeon and Nobel Prize laureate

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