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January 26th

1630 - Death of Henry Briggs, English mathematician

1697 - Death of Georg Mohr, Danish mathematician

1823 - Death of Edward Jenner, English physician

1904 - Birth of Ancel Keys, American scientist

1911 - Birth of Polykarp Kusch, German-born physicist, Nobel Prize Laureate

1942 - Death of Felix Hausdorff, German mathematician

1943 - Death of Harry H. Laughlin, American eugenicist

1943 - Death of Nikolai Vavilov, Russian botanist

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February 2nd 1522 - Birth of Lodovico Ferrari, Italian mathematician
March 5th 1575 - Birth of William Oughtred, English mathematician

The death of Hausdorff was tragic. Someone should have found him a position elsewhere so that he did not feel compelled to remain in Germany.