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1604 - Supernova 1604, the most recent supernova to be observed in the Milky Way.
Births
1704 - Ján Andrej Segner, Slovak and German mathematician, physicist, and physician
1852 - Hermann Emil Fischer, German chemist and Nobel Prize laureate
1873 - Karl Schwarzschild, German physicist and astronomer
1879 - Max von Laue, German physicist and Nobel Prize laureate
1933 - Peter Mansfield, British physicist and Nobel Prize laureate
Deaths
1562 - Gabriele Falloppio, Italian anatomist
1806 - Benjamin Banneker, American astronomer
1943 - Pieter Zeeman, Dutch physicist and Nobel Prize laureate
1967 - Cyril Norman Hinshelwood, English chemist and Nobel Prize laureate
1987 - William Parry Murphy, American physician
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