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||1557: Jacques Cartier dies ... navigator and explorer.


||1599: Cornelis de Houtman dies ... explorer and spy.
||1599: Cornelis de Houtman dies ... explorer and spy.
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||1834: Astronomer Karl Ludwig Harding dies. He discovered Juno. Pic.
||1834: Astronomer Karl Ludwig Harding dies. He discovered Juno. Pic.
||1865: John Appold dies ... engineer. He will invent (among other things) an improved centrifugal pump, and a brake employed in laying deep-sea telegraph cables (used in laying the first Transatlantic cable in 1858).


||1870: Maria Montessori born ... physician and educator.
||1870: Maria Montessori born ... physician and educator.

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