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02 Sep 1764
Nathaniel Bliss |
death Nathaniel Bliss Rev. Nathaniel Bliss, English Astronomer Royal (born 1700) |
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02 Sep 1768
Antoine Deparcieux |
death Antoine Deparcieux Antoine Deparcieux, French mathematician (born 1703) |
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02 Sep 1832
Franz Xaver, Baron Von Zach |
death Franz Xaver, Baron Von Zach Franz Xaver, Baron Von Zach (born 1754), astronomer. |
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02 Sep 1851
William Nicol |
death William Nicol William Nicol (born 1770), geologist. |
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02 Sep 1853
Wilhelm Ostwald |
birth Wilhelm Ostwald Wilhelm Ostwald (died 1932), Baltic German chemist. |
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02 Sep 1865
William Rowan Hamilton |
death William Rowan Hamilton Sir William Rowan Hamilton (born 1805), Irish mathematician, physicist, and astronomer. |
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02 Sep 1877
Frederick Soddy |
birth Frederick Soddy Frederick Soddy (died 1956), English physical chemist. |
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02 Sep 1908
Nikolai Aleksandrovich Kozyrev |
birth Nikolai Aleksandrovich Kozyrev Nikolai Aleksandrovich Kozyrev (died 1983), Russian astronomer and astrophysicist. |
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02 Sep 1948
Christa McAuliffe |
birth Christa McAuliffe Christa McAuliffe, born Sharon Christa Corrigan (died 1986), American astronaut. |
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02 Sep 1952
cardiac shunt |
cardiac shunt (medicine) The first successful operation to correct a cardiac shunt ("hole in the heart") is performed by Drs F. John Lewis and C. Walton Lillehei on a 5-year-old girl in the United States utilising the induced hypothermia technique developed by Wilfred Gordon "Bill" Bigelow. |
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02 Sep 1997
Partial solar eclipse |
Partial solar eclipse (astronomy and space ) Partial solar eclipse. |
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02 Sep 2001
Christiaan Barnard |
death Christiaan Barnard Christiaan Barnard (b. 1922), South African cardiac surgeon. |
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02 Sep 2014
William Merton |
death William Merton William Merton, 96, British military scientist and banker |
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