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1624 - Death of Gaspard Bauhin , Swiss botanist (b. 1560 )1770 - Death of James Stirling , Scottish mathematician (b. 1692 )1863 - Birth of Paul Painlevé , French mathematician (d. 1933 )1868 - Birth of Arnold Sommerfeld , German physicist (d. 1951 )1893 - First appearance of an electric car 1895 - Birth of Elbert Frank Cox , American mathematician (d. 1969 )1896 - Birth of Carl Ferdinand Cori , Austrian-born biochemist, Nobel laureate (d. 1984 )1901 - Birth of Werner Heisenberg , German physicist, Nobel laureate (d. 1976 )1903 - Birth of Cecil Frank Powell , English physicist, Nobel laureate (d. 1969 )1907 - Birth of Giuseppe Occhialini , Italian physicist (d. 1993 )1932 - German -born Swiss physicist Albert Einstein is granted an American visa 1932 - Birth of Sheldon Lee Glashow , American physicist, Nobel laureate
1952 - Great Smog of 1952 : A cold fog descends upon London, combining with air pollution and killing at least 12,000 in the weeks and months that follow1973 - Death of Robert Watson-Watt , Scottish engineer, inventor of radar (b. 1892 )2001 - Death of Franco Rasetti , Italian physicist (b. 1901 )
