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ASTRONOMY

January 11 - William Herschel discovers Titania , the first moon of Uranus found.

AWARDS

BIRTHS

March 6 - Joseph Von Fraunhofer (d. 1826 ), Physicist .

March 16 - Georg Ohm (d. 1854 ), physicist.

June 7 - William Conybeare (d. 1857 ), Geologist .

June 27 - Thomas Say (d. 1834 ), Naturalist .

DEATHS

February 13 - Rudjer Boscovich , physicist, mathematician and astronomer (born 1711 )