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Portrait of French chemist Antoine Laurent Lavoisier, shown in formal 18th-century attire with a white wig and ruffled cravat, looking slightly to his left.
Featured Biography Antoine-Laurent Lavoisier

Born this day in 1743, Antoine-Laurent Lavoisier was a prominent French chemist and leading figure in the 18th-century chemical revolution who developed an experimentally based theory of the chemical reactivity of oxygen.

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August 26, 1904 — January 4, 1986
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August 26, 1914 — February 12, 1984
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Frederick V, detail of a portrait by an unknown artist, c. 1620; in the Historisches Museum der Pfalz, Speyer, Ger.
August 26, 1596 — November 29, 1632
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John Buchan, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir
August 26, 1875 — February 11, 1940
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June 2, 1743 — August 26, 1795
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