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||534 BC – Thespis of Icaria becomes the first recorded actor to portray a character onstage. | |||
||1553 – Prospero Alpini, Italian physician and botanist (d. 1617) | ||1553 – Prospero Alpini, Italian physician and botanist (d. 1617) | ||
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||Friedrich Georg Wilhelm von Struve (d. 23 November [O.S. 11 November] 1864) was a German-Russian astronomer and geodesist from the famous Struve family. He is best known for studying double stars and for initiating a triangulation survey later named Struve Geodetic Arc in his honor. | ||Friedrich Georg Wilhelm von Struve (d. 23 November [O.S. 11 November] 1864) was a German-Russian astronomer and geodesist from the famous Struve family. He is best known for studying double stars and for initiating a triangulation survey later named Struve Geodetic Arc in his honor. | ||
||Edgar Lee Hewett (November 23, 1865 – December 31, 1946) was an American archaeologist and anthropologist whose focus was the Native American communities of New Mexico and the southwestern United States. He is best known for his role in gaining passage of the Antiquities Act, a pioneering piece of legislation for the conservation movement | |||
||1869 – Valdemar Poulsen, Danish engineer (d. 1942) wire recorder | ||1869 – Valdemar Poulsen, Danish engineer (d. 1942) wire recorder | ||
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1837: Theoretical physicist and academic Johannes Diderik van der Waals born. He will win the 1910 Nobel Prize in physics for his work on the equation of state for gases and liquids.