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Events

1604 - Johannes Kepler observes Kepler’s Star (Supernova 1604), the last supernova to have been observed in the Milky Way.

Births

1919 - Isaak Markovich Khalatnikov, Russian physicist

1936 - Hiroo Kanamori, Japanese seismologist

Deaths

1757 - René Antoine Ferchault de Réaumur, French scientist

1780 - William Cookworthy, English chemist

1887 - Gustav Kirchhoff, German physicist

1931 - Alfons Maria Jakob, German neurologist

1934 - Santiago Ramón y Cajal, Spanish neuroscientist and Nobel Prize laureate