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1831 - James Clark Ross discovers the North Magnetic Pole.
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1633 - Geminiano Montanari, Italian astronomer
1796 - Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot, French mathematician
1899 - Edward Charles Titchmarsh, English mathematician
1907 - Frank Whittle, English inventor of the jet engine.
1940 - Kip Thorne, American physicist
Deaths
1795 - Pierre-Joseph Desault, French anatomist
1941 - Hans Berger, German neuroscientist
1979 - Werner Forssmann, German physician, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
1999 - Christopher Sydney Cockerell, British engineer and inventor
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