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August 8

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  1. 1920 CEEgyptian · born

    The French Egyptologist Jean Leclant, long-serving secretary of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres, was born in 1920.

  2. 1902 CEScience · born

    Paul Dirac, a founder of quantum mechanics whose equation joining quantum theory and relativity pointed to the existence of antimatter, was born in Bristol, England.

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