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Events

2004 - Cassini-Huygens makes its closest flyby of Phoebe (above)

Births

1723 - Johann Georg Palitzsch, German astronomer

1876 - Alfred L. Kroeber, American anthropologist

1915 - Nicholas Metropolis, Greek-American mathematician, physicist and computer scientist

1937 - Robin Warren, Australian pathologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine

Deaths

1903 - Nikolai Bugaev, Russian mathematician

1934 - Lev Vygotsky, Russian psychologist