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February 1st

1462 - Birth of Johannes Trithemius, German cryptographer

1761 - Birth of Christian Hendrik Persoon, South African mycologist

1897 - Death of Constantin von Ettingshausen, Austrian geologist

1903 - Death of George Gabriel Stokes, Irish physicist

1958 - Death of Clinton Davisson, American physicist and Nobel Prize Laureate

1970 - Death of Alfréd Rényi, Hungarian mathematician

1976 - Death of Werner Heisenberg, German physicist and Nobel Prize Laureate

1976 - Death of George Whipple, American scientist and Nobel Prize Laureate

2003 - Space Shuttle Columbia disintegrates during reentry into the Earth's atmosphere, killing seven astronauts.

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