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||1755 – James Parkinson, English surgeon, geologist, and paleontologist (d. 1824)
||1755 – James Parkinson, English surgeon, geologist, and paleontologist (d. 1824)
File:Jean-André Lepaute.jpg|link=Jean-André Lepaute (nonfiction)|1789: Clockmaker [[Jean-André Lepaute (nonfiction)|Jean-André Lepaute]] dies. He was an innovator, introducing numerous improvements in clockmaking, especially his pin-wheel escapement, and his clockworks in which the gears are all in the horizontal plane.


||1798 – Macedonio Melloni, Italian physicist and academic (d. 1854)
||1798 – Macedonio Melloni, Italian physicist and academic (d. 1854)

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