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Birthdays

Marc Andreessen [1971]
Creator of NCSA Mosaic web browser
Oliver Sacks [1933]
Neurologist and famous author
Janice Lourie [1930]
American computer scientist and graphic artist
Murphy Anderson [1926]
American comic book artist
John Archibald Wheeler [1911]
Theoretical physicist who coined 'wormhole' and 'blackhole'
Basil Wolverton [1909]
American cartoonist and illustrator
Elias Howe [1819]
One of the inventors of the sewing machine

Death Anniversaries

King Camp Gillette [1932]
Creator of the safety razor
Paul Broca [1880]
French anatomist known for his work on the human brain
Anna Atkins [1871]
First person to publish a book with photographs
Amedeo Avogadro [1856]
Italian physicist known for Avogadro's Law and Avogadro's Constant

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