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08 Oct 1609
John Clarke |
birth John Clarke John Clarke, English physician (died 1676) |
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08 Oct 1647
Christen Sørensen Longomontanus |
death Christen Sørensen Longomontanus Christen Sørensen Longomontanus, Danish astronomer (born 1562) |
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08 Oct 1652
John Greaves |
death John Greaves John Greaves, English astronomer (born 1602) |
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08 Oct 1715
Michel Benoist |
birth Michel Benoist Michel Benoist, French Jesuit missionary and scientist (died 1774) |
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08 Oct 1789
William John Swainson |
birth William John Swainson William John Swainson, English naturalist (died 1855) |
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08 Oct 1862
James Walker |
death James Walker James Walker (born 1781), Scottish-born civil engineer |
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08 Oct 1866
Reginald Fessenden |
birth Reginald Fessenden Reginald Fessenden (died 1932), pioneer of radio broadcasting |
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08 Oct 1883
Otto Heinrich Warburg |
birth Otto Heinrich Warburg Otto Heinrich Warburg (died 1970), German physiologist and winner of the 1931 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. |
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08 Oct 1909
Zagreb |
Zagreb (earth sciences) An earthquake in the Zagreb area leads Andrija Mohorovičić to identify the Mohorovičić discontinuity. |
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08 Oct 1917
Rodney Porter |
birth Rodney Porter Rodney Porter, English biochemist (died 1985), winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. |
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08 Oct 1931
John Monash |
death John Monash General Sir John Monash (born 1865), Australian civil engineer. |
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