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==Deaths== * January 18 β [[William Stokes (physician)|William Stokes]], [[Irish people|Irish]] [[physician]] (born [[1804 in science|1804]]) * January 18 β [[Antoine CΓ©sar Becquerel]], French scientist (born [[1788 in science|1788]]) * January 19 β [[Henri Victor Regnault]], French [[physical chemist]] (born [[1810 in science|1810]]) * February 8 β [[Elias Magnus Fries]], [[Swedes|Swedish]] [[botanist]] (born [[1794 in science|1794]]) * February 10 β [[Claude Bernard]], French [[physiologist]] (born [[1813 in science|1813]]) * February 26 β [[Angelo Secchi]], [[Italian people|Italian]] astronomer (born [[1818 in science|1818]]) * March 16 β [[William Banting]], [[English people|English]] [[undertaker]] and [[dietician]] (b. c.[[1796 in science|1796]]) * May 13 β [[Joseph Henry]], American physicist (born [[1797 in science|1797]]) * June 6 β [[Robert Stirling]], [[Scottish people|Scottish]] clergyman and inventor (born [[1790 in science|1790]]) * July 23 β [[Baron Carl von Rokitansky]], [[Bohemia]]n [[pathologist]] (born 1804) * September 25 β [[August Heinrich Petermann]], [[Germans|German]] [[cartographer]] (born [[1822 in science|1822]]) * Friedrich Freese, German botanist (born 1794)
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