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Birthdays

1750 - François de Neufchâteau (French statesman and intellectual)

1798 - Étienne Bobillier (French mathematician)

1833 - Jean-Baptiste Accolay (Belgian composer)

1842 - Maurice Rouvier (French statesman)

1911 - Jean-Pierre-Marie Hervé Bazin (French writer)

1916 - Helenio Herrera (French soccer player and manager)

Deaths

1696 - Marie de Rabutin-Chantal (French writer)

1942 - Jean Perrin (French physicist)

2004 - Edmond Pidoux (Swiss writer)

Milestones/Events

1942 - World War II: POW French General Henri Giraud escaped from his castle prison

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