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19 Oct 1586
Ignazio Danti |
death Ignazio Danti Ignazio Danti, Italian mathematician and astronomer (born 1536) |
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19 Oct 1605
Thomas Browne |
birth Thomas Browne Thomas Browne, English physician and encyclopedist (died 1682) |
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19 Oct 1862
Auguste Lumière |
birth Auguste Lumière Auguste Lumière (died 1954), French inventor, film pioneer |
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19 Oct 1871
Walter Bradford Cannon |
birth Walter Bradford Cannon Walter Bradford Cannon (died 1945), American physiologist. |
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19 Oct 1875
Charles Wheatstone |
death Charles Wheatstone Charles Wheatstone (born 1802), inventor |
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19 Oct 1895
Lewis Mumford |
birth Lewis Mumford Lewis Mumford (died 1990), American historian & philosopher of science. |
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19 Oct 1897
George Pullman |
death George Pullman George Pullman (born 1831), American inventor. |
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19 Oct 1916
Jean Dausset |
birth Jean Dausset Jean Dausset (died 2009), French immunologist, winner of the 1980 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. |
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19 Oct 1929
Lewis Wolpert |
birth Lewis Wolpert Lewis Wolpert, British developmental biologist, author, and broadcaster. |
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19 Oct 1943
antibiotic |
antibiotic (pharmacology) The antibiotic streptomycin (the first antibiotic remedy for tuberculosis) is first isolated by Albert Schatz in the laboratory of Selman Abraham Waksman at Rutgers University in the United States. |
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19 Oct 1956
Carlo Urbani |
birth Carlo Urbani Carlo Urbani (died 2003), Italian physician, discoverer of SARS. |
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19 Oct 1967
Mariner 5 |
Mariner 5 (astronomy and space ) Mariner 5 probe flies by Venus. |
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19 Oct 2004
Lewis Urry |
death Lewis Urry Lewis Urry (b. 1927), inventor of the long-lasting alkaline battery. |
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