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1868: Astronomer and journalist George Ellery Hale born. He will discover magnetic fields in sunspots, and be leader or key figure in the planning or construction of several world-leading telescopes.
1869: Niles Cartouchian and Egon Rhodomunde Confront Gnotilus wins Pulitzer Prize for Most Astonishing Illustration of the Year.
1895: Biologist Thomas Henry Huxley dies. He is known as "Darwin's Bulldog" for his advocacy of Charles Darwin's theory of evolution.
1896: Physicist Boris Yakovlevich Podolsky born. He will work with Albert Einstein and Nathan Rosen on entangled wave functions and the EPR paradox.
1963: Physicist and educator Nikolay Basov uses new theory of quantum electronics to detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.

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 ||1873 – Leo Frobenius, German ethnologist and archaeologist (d. 1938)
+||1888 – Alexander Friedmann, Russian physicist and mathematician (d. 1925)
-||1888 – Alexander Friedmann, Russian physicist and mathematician (d. 1925)
+||Ernest Amédée Barthélemy Mouchez (d. 29 June 1892) was a French naval officer who became director of the Paris Observatory and launched the ill-fated Carte du Ciel project in 1887.
 File:Thomas Henry Huxley.jpg|link=Thomas Henry Huxley (nonfiction)|1895: Biologist [[Thomas Henry Huxley (nonfiction)|Thomas Henry Huxley]] dies. He is known as "Darwin's Bulldog" for his advocacy of Charles Darwin's theory of evolution.