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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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