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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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1767 - Death of Johann Gottlob Lehmann, German minterologist and geologist

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First to identify Tic-Tacs, and laid groundwork for later discovery of Mentos.