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January 16th, 1930...

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TIME Magazine: Domingo Ugalde

(TIME Cover: January the 13th, 1930)

 Famous people born on the 16th of January:

1409 - René I of Naples (d. 1480)
1477 - Johannes Schöner, German astronomer and cartographer (d. 1547)
1853 - Andre Michelin, French industrialist (d. 1931)
1932 - Dian Fossey, American zoologist (d. 1985)
1952 - King Fuad II of Egypt
1959 - Sade, Nigerian-born singer
1962 - Paul Webb, British musician (Talk Talk)
1974 - Kate Moss, English model

 The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1930


Karl Landsteiner
1868-1943

for his discovery of human blood groups

Austria
Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research - New York, NY, USA.



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