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||1774 – Michel Benoist, French missionary and astronomer (b. 1715)
||1774 – Michel Benoist, French missionary and astronomer (b. 1715)


||1873 William D. Coolidge, American physicist and engineer (d. 1975)
File:William_D._Coolidge.jpg|link=William D. Coolidge (nonfiction)|1873: Physicist and engineer [[William D. Coolidge (nonfiction)|William D. Coolidge]] born. He will make major contributions to X-ray machines, and develop ductile tungsten for incandescent light bulbs.


||1875 – Gilbert N. Lewis, American chemist and academic (d. 1946)
||1875 – Gilbert N. Lewis, American chemist and academic (d. 1946)

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