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==Deaths== * February 20 β [[Tobias Mayer]], [[Germans|German]] [[astronomer]] (born [[1723 in science|1723]]) * March 21 β [[Nicolas Louis de Lacaille]], French [[astronomer]] (born [[1713 in science|1713]]) * June 13 β [[Dorothea Erxleben]], [[German people|German]] physician (born [[1715 in science|1715]]) * July 10 β [[Jan Frederik Gronovius]], [[Netherlands|Dutch]] [[botanist]] (born [[1690 in science|1690]]) * July 13 β [[James Bradley]], [[English people|English]] [[Astronomer Royal]] (born [[1693 in science|1693]]) * July 30 β [[William Braikenridge]], English clergyman and [[geometer]] (born [[1700 in science|1700]])<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www-groups.dcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/history/Biographies/Braikenridge.html|title=William Braikenridge|last1=O'Connor|first1=John J.|first2=Edmund F.|last2=Robertson|authorlink2=Edmund F. Robertson|work=[[MacTutor History of Mathematics archive|MacTutor History of Mathematics]]|accessdate=2012-01-24|date=November 1999|archive-date=2019-08-27|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190827014808/http://www-groups.dcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/history/Biographies/Braikenridge.html|url-status=dead}}</ref>
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