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02 Apr 1565
Cornelis de Houtman |
birth Cornelis de Houtman Cornelis de Houtman, Dutch explorer (died 1599) |
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02 Apr 1618
Francesco Maria Grimaldi |
birth Francesco Maria Grimaldi Francesco Maria Grimaldi, Italian physicist, discoverer of the diffraction of light (died 1663) |
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02 Apr 1647
Maria Sybilla Merian |
birth Maria Sybilla Merian Maria Sybilla Merian, German lepidopterist (died 1717) |
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02 Apr 1747
Johann Jacob Dillenius |
death Johann Jacob Dillenius Johann Jacob Dillenius, German botanist, botanical artist, and physician who studied and produced several papers on cryptogams (lower plants that do not have seeds or flowers), such as mosses and algae (born 1687) |
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02 Apr 1872
Samuel F. B. Morse |
death Samuel F. B. Morse Samuel F. B. Morse (born 1791), inventor |
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02 Apr 1892
Emin Pasha |
death Emin Pasha Emin Pasha (born 1840), explorer. |
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02 Apr 1923
G. Spencer-Brown |
birth G. Spencer-Brown G. Spencer-Brown, English mathematician. |
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02 Apr 1995
Hannes Alfvén |
death Hannes Alfvén Hannes Alfvén (b. 1908), Swedish astrophysicist. |
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