February 17th
1723 - Birth of Tobias Mayer, German astronomer
1792 - Birth of Karl Ernst von Baer, German biologist
1796 - Birth of Philipp Franz von Siebold, German physician
1874 - Death of Lambert Adolphe Jacques Quetelet, Belgian mathematician
1888 - Birth of Otto Stern, German physicist, Nobel Prize Laureate
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Births
1723 - Tobias Mayer, German astronomer
1781 - René Laënnec, French physician
1792 - Karl Ernst von Baer, German biologist
1796 - Philipp Franz von Siebold, German physician
1888 - Otto Stern, German physicist and Nobel Prize laureate
Deaths
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February 22nd
1632 - Galileo's Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems is published.
1705 - Birth of Peter Artedi, Swedish naturalist
1731 - Death of Frederik Ruysch, Dutch physician and anatomist
1796 - Birth of Lambert Adolphe Jacques Quetelet, Belgian mathematician
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February 19th
1473 - Birth of Nicolaus Copernicus, mathematician and astronomer
1526 - Birth of Charles de L'Ecluse, Flemish botanist
1553 - Death of Erasmus Reinhold, German astronomer and mathematician
1660 - Birth of Friedrich Hoffmann, German physician and chemist
1799 - Death of Jean-…
February 20th
1762 - Death of Tobias Mayer, German astronomer
1771 - Death of Jean Jacques d'Ortous de Mairan, French geophysicist
1844 - Birth of Ludwig Boltzmann, Austrian physicist
1907 - Death of Henri Moissan, French chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
1937 - Birth of Robert Huber, German chemist,…