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File:George Biddell Airy 1891.jpg|link=George Biddell Airy (nonfiction)|1801: Mathematician and astronomer [[George Biddell Airy (nonfiction)|George Biddell Airy]] born. His achievements will include work on planetary orbits, measuring the mean density of the Earth, and, in his role as Astronomer Royal, establishing Greenwich as the location of the prime meridian.
File:George Biddell Airy 1891.jpg|link=George Biddell Airy (nonfiction)|1801: Mathematician and astronomer [[George Biddell Airy (nonfiction)|George Biddell Airy]] born. His achievements will include work on planetary orbits, measuring the mean density of the Earth, and, in his role as Astronomer Royal, establishing Greenwich as the location of the prime meridian.


||1844 – John Dalton, English physicist, meteorologist, and chemist (b. 1776)
File:John Dalton by Charles Turner.jpg|link=John Dalton (nonfiction)|1844: Chemist, meteorologist, and physicist [[John Dalton (nonfiction)|John Dalton]] dies. He proposed the modern atomic theory, and did research in color blindness.


||1848 – Loránd Eötvös, Hungarian physicist and politician, Minister of Education of Hungary (d. 1919)
||1848 – Loránd Eötvös, Hungarian physicist and politician, Minister of Education of Hungary (d. 1919)

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