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||1805 – William Rowan Hamilton, Irish physicist, astronomer, and mathematician (d. 1865)
||1805 – William Rowan Hamilton, Irish physicist, astronomer, and mathematician (d. 1865)


File:John Venn.jpg|link=|1834: Mathematician and philosopher [[John Venn (nonfiction)|John Venn]] born.
File:John Venn.jpg|link=|1834: Mathematician and philosopher [[John Venn (nonfiction)|John Venn]] born. He will invent the Venn diagram, now widely used set theory, probability, logic, statistics, and computer science.


||1719 – Johann Gottlob Lehmann, German mineralogist and geologist (d. 1767)
||1719 – Johann Gottlob Lehmann, German mineralogist and geologist (d. 1767)

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