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Births

1852 - Henri Becquerel, French physicist and Nobel Prize laureate

1860 - Niels Ryberg Finsen, Danish physician and Nobel Prize laureate

1916 - Maurice Wilkins, New Zealand-born physicist and Nobel Prize laureate

1923 - Freeman Dyson, English-born American physicist

Deaths

1958 - Wolfgang Ernst Pauli, Austrian-born American physicist and Nobel Prize laureate

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