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 * 1652 – Birth of physician and botanist Augustus Quirinus Rivinus
 * 1717 – Birth of archaeologist Johann Joachim Winckelmann
 * 1798 – Death of naturalist Johann Reinhold Forster, member of James Cook's second Pacific expedition
 * 1868 – Birth of chemist Fritz Haber, winner of the 1918 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his development of synthetic ammonia