April 10th, 1943...

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TIME Magazine: Sir Thomas Beecham

(TIME Cover: April the 5th, 1943)

1389 - Cosimo de' Medici, ruler of Florence (d. 1464)
1755 - Samuel Hahnemann, German physician (d. 1843)
1847 - Joseph Pulitzer, American journalist and publisher (d. 1911)
1880 - Mohammed Nadir Shah, Afghan king
1932 - Omar Sharif, Egyptian actor
1947 - Bunny Wailer, Jamaican musician
1950 - Eddie Hazel, American guitarist (P-Funk and The Temptations) (d. 1992)
1957 - John M. Ford, American science fiction author and poet (d. 2006)
1959 - Brian Setzer, American musician (Stray Cats)

Otto Stern
1888-1969

for his contribution to the development of the molecular ray method and his discovery of the magnetic moment of the proton

USA
Carnegie Institute of Technology Pittsburgh, PA, USA

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