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||1790: Marshall Hall ... an English physician, physiologist and early neurologist. His name is attached to the theory of reflex arc mediated by the spinal cord, to a method of resuscitation of drowned people, and to the elucidation of function of capillary vessels. Pic.
||1790: Marshall Hall ... an English physician, physiologist and early neurologist. His name is attached to the theory of reflex arc mediated by the spinal cord, to a method of resuscitation of drowned people, and to the elucidation of function of capillary vessels. Pic.
||1818: Alexander Forbes Irvine dies ... amateur astronomer. Pic.


||1832: Octave Chanute born ... civil engineer and aviation pioneer, born in France. He provided many budding enthusiasts, including the Wright brothers, with help and advice, and helped to publicize their flying experiments. At his death he was hailed as the father of aviation and the heavier-than-air flying machine. Pic.
||1832: Octave Chanute born ... civil engineer and aviation pioneer, born in France. He provided many budding enthusiasts, including the Wright brothers, with help and advice, and helped to publicize their flying experiments. At his death he was hailed as the father of aviation and the heavier-than-air flying machine. Pic.
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||1844: Jacob Lüroth born ... mathematician who proved Lüroth's theorem and introduced Lüroth quartics.  Pic.
||1844: Jacob Lüroth born ... mathematician who proved Lüroth's theorem and introduced Lüroth quartics.  Pic.


||1849: Jérôme Eugène Coggia born ... astronomer and discoverer of asteroids and comets. Pic search maybe: https://www.google.com/search?q=Jérôme+Eugène+Coggia
||1849: Jérôme Eugène Coggia born ... astronomer and discoverer of asteroids and comets. Pic search.


File:Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi.jpg|link=Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi (nonfiction)|1851: Mathematician and academic [[Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi (nonfiction)|Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi]] dies. He made fundamental contributions to elliptic functions, dynamics, differential equations, and number theory.
File:Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi.jpg|link=Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi (nonfiction)|1851: Mathematician and academic [[Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi (nonfiction)|Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi]] dies. He made fundamental contributions to elliptic functions, dynamics, differential equations, and number theory.

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