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Events
1807 – The asteroid Vesta is discovered.
1974 – NASA‘s Mariner 10 becomes the first spaceprobe to fly by Mercury (see above)
Births
1824 – Ludwig Büchner, German philosopher and physician
1873 – Tullio Levi-Civita, Italian mathematician
1927 – John Robert Vane, English pharmacologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
1941 – Joseph Hooton Taylor, Jr., American astrophysicist, Nobel Prize in Physics laureate
1965 – Emilios T. Harlaftis, Greek astrophysicist
Deaths
1772 – Emanuel Swedenborg, Swedish philosopher and mathematician
1873 – Francesco Zantedeschi, Italian physicist
1912 – Edward Adrian Wilson, English physician and naturalist