1758 - Marie Anne Paulze Lavoisier born: research assistant, collaborator, illustrator, editor, publisher, and spouse of Antoine Lavoisier; later spouse (but not collaborator) of Benjamin Thompson, Count Rumford.
1815 - Horace Wells born: first to use a gas (nitrous oxide) as an anesthetic.
1834 - Adolph Frank born: made calcium cyanamide from calcium carbide and nitrogen.
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