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AWARDS

Copley Medal : Not awarded

BIRTHS

April 10 - Giovanni Aldini , physicist (died 1834 )

November 20 - Pierre André Latreille , zoologist (died 1833 )

DEATHS

February 20 - Tobias Mayer , German astronomer (born 1723 )

March 21 - Nicolas Louis De Lacaille , French astronomer (born 1713 )

July 13 - James Bradley , Astronomer Royal (born 1693 )

Jan Frederik Gronovius , Dutch botanist (born 1690 )