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February 25th

1682 - Birth of Giovanni Battista Morgagni, Italian anatomist

1919 - Birth of Karl H. Pribram, Austrian neuroscientist

1950 - Death of George Minot, American physician, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine

1953 - Death of Sergei Winogradsky, Russian scientist

1971 - Death of Theodor Svedberg, Swedish chemist, Nobel Prize laureate

1999 - Death of Glenn T. Seaborg, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate

2006 - The world's estimated population reaches 6.5 billion.

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