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||1826 – Bernhard Riemann, German-Italian mathematician and academic (d. 1866)
||1826 – Bernhard Riemann, German-Italian mathematician and academic (d. 1866)


||1857 Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, Russian scientist and engineer (d. 1935)
File:Konstantin Tsiolkovsky.jpg|link=Konstantin Tsiolkovsky (nonfiction)|1857: Scientist and engineer [[Konstantin Tsiolkovsky (nonfiction)|Konstantin Tsiolkovsky]] born. He will be one of the founding fathers of modern rocketry and astronautics.


||1859 – Joshua A. Norton declares himself "Norton I, Emperor of the United States."
||1859 – Joshua A. Norton declares himself "Norton I, Emperor of the United States."

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