January 22nd
1561 - Birth of Sir Francis Bacon, English philosopher
1592 - Birth of Pierre Gassendi, French philosopher, mathematician, and scientist
1767 - Death of Johann Gottlob Lehmann, German mineralogist and geologist
1779 - Death of Jeremiah Dixon, English surveyor and astronomer
1840 - Death of Johann Friedrich Blumenbach, German anthropologist
1908 - Birth of Lev Landau, Russian physicist and Nobel Prize laureate
1922 - Death of Camille Jordan, French mathematician
1936 - Birth of Alan J. Heeger, American chemist and Nobel Prize laureate
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2003 - Last successful contact with Pioneer 10.
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1767 - Death of Johann Gottlob Lehmann, German minterologist and geologist
Minterologist?
First to identify Tic-Tacs, and laid groundwork for later discovery of Mentos.