Jacques Edwin Brandenberger

Jacques Edwin Brandenberger was a Swiss chemist and textile engineer who in 1908 invented cellophane(Cellophane is a thin, transparent sheet made of regenerated cellulose. Its low permeability to air, oils, greases, bacteria and water makes it useful for food packaging). He was born on October 19, 1872 and died on July 13, 1954.

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Ernst Pascual Jordan

Ernst Pascual Jordan was born on  October 18, 1902. He was a theoretical and mathematical physicist who made significant contributions to quantum mechanics and quantum field theory. He died on July 31, 1980. 

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Dr. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

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Bharat Ratna Avul Pakir Jainulabdeen Abdul Kalam was born on October 15, 1931. He is usually referred to as Dr. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam, is an Indian scientist and administrator who served as the 11th President of India from 2002 to 2007.

Harold Walter Kroto

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Harold Walter Kroto was born on October 7, 1939, He is the English chemist who shared the 1996 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Robert Curl and Richard Smalley. Kroto is the Francis Eppes Professor of Chemistry at the Florida State University, which he joined in 2004.

Julius Wilhelm Richard Dedekind

Julius Wilhelm Richard Dedekind was born on October 6, 1831, he was a German mathematician who made important contributions to abstract algebra, algebraic number theory and the foundations of the real numbers, He died on February 12, 1916.

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Gandhi Jayanti - International Day of Non-Violence

Gandhi Jayanti is observed on October 2. It is a national holiday celebrated in India to mark the occasion of the birthday of Mahatma Gandhi, the "Father of the Nation". The United Nations General Assembly announced on 15 June 2007 that it adopted a resolution which declared that October 2 will be celebrated as the International Day of Non-Violence.

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Verónica Michelle Bachelet Jeria

Verónica Michelle Bachelet Jeria was the first female president of her country Chile. She was born September 29, 1951. She is a Social Democrat politician who was President of Chile from 11 March 2006 to 11 March 2010.

Serena Williams

Serena Jameka Williams is an American professional tennis player who is currently ranked No. 1 in women's singles tennis. She was born on September 26, 1981.

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Thomas H Morgan

Thomas Hunt Morgan was born on September 25, 1866, he was an American evolutionary biologist, geneticist and embryologist and science author who won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1933 for discoveries elucidating the role the chromosome plays in heredity. He died on December 4, 1945.

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Johann Franz Encke

Johann Franz Encke was a German astronomer.  He was born on September 23, 1791, he worked on the calculation of the periods of comets and asteroids, measured the distance from the earth to the sun, and made observations of the planet Saturn. He died on August 26, 1865. 

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James Dewar

James Dewar was a Scottish chemist and physicist. He was born on September 20, 1842. He is probably best-known today for his invention of the Dewar flask, which he used in conjunction with extensive research into the liquefaction of gases. He died on March 27, 1923. 

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Sixth person to walk on the Moon

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Edgar Dean Mitchell was born September 17, 1930, he is an American pilot, retired Captain in the United States Navy and NASA astronaut. As the lunar module pilot of Apollo 14, he spent nine hours working on the lunar surface in the Fra Mauro Highlands region, making him the sixth person to walk on the Moon.

Lawrence Robert Klein

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Lawrence Robert Klein is an American economist. For his work in creating computer models to forecast economic trends in the field of econometrics at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania he was awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 1980. He was born on September 14, 1920.

First black mayor of Baltimore

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Clarence H. Du Burns was born on 13 September 1918, he was a self-made politician who rose through grass-roots involvement in his native East Baltimore to become the city's first African-American mayor. He died on January 12, 2002.

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Haskell Curry

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Haskell Brooks Curry was born on September 12, 1900, he was an American mathematician and logician. Curry is best known for his work in combinatory logic. He died on September 1, 1982. 

Emile Baudot

Jean-Maurice Emile Baudot September was born on 11, 1845, French telegraph engineer and inventor of the first means of digital communication Baudot code, was one of the pioneers of telecommunications. He died on March 28, 1903. 

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Hans Georg Dehmelt

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Hans Georg Dehmelt is a German-born American physicist, who was awarded Nobel Prize in Physics in 1989, for co-developing the ion trap technique with Wolfgang Paul, for which they shared one-half of the prize.He was born on September 9, 1922.

Susumu Tonegawa

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Susumu Tonegawa was born on September 6, 1939, a Japanese scientist who won the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1987 for his discovery of the genetic mechanism that produces antibody diversity.