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February 4th

1615 - Death of Giovanni Battista della Porta, Italian physicist

1725 - Birth of Dru Drury, English entomologist

1774 - Death of Charles Marie de La Condamine, French mathematician and geographer

1778 - Birth of A. P. de Candolle, Swiss botanist

1846 - Birth of Nikolay Umov, Russian physicist

1875 - Birth of Ludwig Prandtl, German physicist

1896 - Birth of Friedrich Hund, German physicist

1906 - Birth of Clyde Tombaugh, American astronomer

1928 - Death of Hendrik Lorentz, Dutch physicist and Nobel Prize Laureate

1974 - Death of Satyendra Nath Bose, Indian physicist

1987 - Death of Carl Rogers, American psychologist

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