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Events

1827 - William Rowan Hamilton presents his Theory of systems of rays.

Births

1628 - Johann van Waveren Hudde, Dutch mathematician

1746 - Félix Vicq-d'Azyr, French physician and anatomist

1775 - William Turner, English ornithologist

1792 - John Thomas Romney Robinson, Irish astronomer and physicist

1858 - Max Planck, German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate

1867 - Johannes Andreas Grib Fibiger, Danish scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine

1901 - E.B. Ford, British ecological geneticist

Deaths

1895 - Carl Ludwig, German physician

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