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Events

1993 - The web browser Mosaic version 1.0 is released.

Births

1692 - James Stirling, Scottish mathematician

1876 - Robert Bárány, American physician, Nobel laureate

1884 - Otto Rank, Austrian psychologist

1891 - Harold Jeffreys, English astronomer

1904 - Robert Oppenheimer, American physicist

1907 - Ivan Efremov, Russian paleontologist and author

1909 - Rita Levi-Montalcini, Italian neurologist, Nobel laureate

1910 - Norman Steenrod, American mathematician

1919 - Donald J. Cram, American chemist, Nobel laureate

1922 - Wolf V. Vishniac, American microbiologist

Deaths

1758 - Antoine de Jussieu, French naturalist

1945 - Wilhelm Cauer, German mathematician

1951 - Horace Donisthorpe, British entomologist

1980 - Fritz Strassmann, German physicist

2005 - Philip Morrison, American physicist