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AWARDS

BIRTHS

May 21 - Mary Anning , paleontologist (died 1847 )

June 18 - Prosper Meniere , French physician (died 1862 )

September 8 - James Bowman Lindsay , Scottish inventor (died 1862)

December 30 - David Douglas , Scottish botanist (died 1834 )

DEATHS

January 17 - Maria Gaetana Agnesi , Italian mathematician (born 1718 )

February 19 - Jean-Charles De Borda , French mathematician and physicist (born 1733 )

August 2 - Jacques Étienne Montgolfier , French inventor (born 1745 )

October 6 - William Withering , British physician, discoverer of Digitalis (born 1741 )

December 6 - Joseph Black , Scottish chemist and physicist (born 1728 )