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||1865 – Arthur Harden, English biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1940) | ||1865 – Arthur Harden, English biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1940) | ||
||1875 | File:Aleister Crowley.jpg|link=Aleister Crowley (nonfiction)|1875: Magician and author [[Aleister Crowley (nonfiction)|Aleister Crowley]] born. He will gain widespread notoriety during his lifetime, as a recreational drug experimenter, bisexual, and an individualist social critic; the popular press will denounce him as "the wickedest man in the world" and a Satanist. | ||
||1910 – Malcolm Renfrew, American chemist and academic (d. 2013) | ||1910 – Malcolm Renfrew, American chemist and academic (d. 2013) | ||
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322 BC: Athenian politician and orator Demosthenes takes his own life, to avoid being arrested by the agents of his enemies.
1875: Magician and author Aleister Crowley born. He will gain widespread notoriety during his lifetime, as a recreational drug experimenter, bisexual, and an individualist social critic; the popular press will denounce him as "the wickedest man in the world" and a Satanist.