| December 20th, 1998Alan Lloyd Hodgkin, British scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (born in 1916) dies on December 20, 1998.  Read about how to open files in Open File Database.
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| December 22nd, 1998 | Death | Michelle Thomas, American actress (born in 1969) |  |