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Events

1995 - 51 Pegasi was discovered to be the first major star apart from the Sun to have a planet (and extrasolar planet) orbiting around it.

Births

1459 - Martin Behaim, German navigator and geographer (

1510 - John Caius, English physician

1803 - Heinrich Wilhelm Dove, German physicist

1903 - Ernest Walton, Irish physicist and Nobel Prize laureate

1931 - Nikolai Stepanovich Chernykh, Russian astronomer

1931 - Riccardo Giacconi, Italian-born physicist and Nobel Prize laureate

Deaths

1873 - Sir PaweÅ Edmund Strzelecki, Polish explorer and geologist

1951 - Otto Fritz Meyerhof, German-born physician and biochemist and Nobel Prize laureate