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Birthdays

1802 - Adolphe d'Archiac (French paleontologist and geologist)

1870 - Georges Claude (French enginer and chemist)

1878 - Charles-Ferdinand Ramuz (Swiss writer)

1884 - Gustave Garrigou (French cyclist)

1895 - André Frédéric Cournand (French physician and physiologist)

Deaths

768 - Pépin le Bref, King of the Franks

1435 - Isabeau of Bavaria (wife of Charles VI of France)

2004 - Françoise Sagan (French writer)

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