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1827 - William Rowan Hamilton presents his Theory of systems of rays.
Births
1628 - Johann van Waveren Hudde, Dutch mathematician
1746 - Félix Vicq-d'Azyr, French physician and anatomist
1775 - William Turner, English ornithologist
1792 - John Thomas Romney Robinson, Irish astronomer and physicist
1858 - Max Planck, German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
1867 - Johannes Andreas Grib Fibiger, Danish scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
1901 - E.B. Ford, British ecological geneticist
Deaths
1895 - Carl Ludwig, German physician
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