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||1842 – Camille Flammarion, French astronomer and author (d. 1925)
||1842 – Camille Flammarion, French astronomer and author (d. 1925)
||Fr. Pietro Angelo Secchi SJ (d. 26 February 1878) was an Italian astronomer. He was Director of the Observatory at the Pontifical Gregorian University (then called the Roman College) for 28 years. He was a pioneer in astronomical spectroscopy, and was one of the first scientists to state authoritatively that the Sun is a star.


||1880 – Kenneth Edgeworth, Irish astronomer (d. 1972)
||1880 – Kenneth Edgeworth, Irish astronomer (d. 1972)

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