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– 1765 – Russian scientist, poet and philologist Mikhail Lomonosov, considered
the first great scientist in Russia (b. 1711)

– 1772 – Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, French geologist and anatomist was

born; precursor of evolutionism (d. 1844)

– 1797 – Adolphe Thiers, French journalist, historian and politician was born;

several times minister and prime minister; the first president of the Third
French Republic (1871-1873); led the bloody repression of the Paris Commune

(d. 1877)

– 1809 – Hermann Günther Grassmann, mathematician (created the algebra

of space with "n" dimensions) and German physicist (contributions to
acoustics, optics and electromagnetism) (d. 1877) – 215 years

– 1843 – Henry James, American writer and literary critic (d. 1916)

– 1858: French sociologist and philosopher Émile Durkheim was born;

nicknamed the main architect of modern social science and father of sociology;
founded, in 1896, the journal "L'Année sociologique", around which the French
school of sociology was formed (d. 1917)

– 1865: Abraham Lincoln, president of the United States between 1861 and

1865, died (assassinated); he was one of the founders of the Republican Party
(1856) and a firm fighter for the abolition of slavery; he was the first American

president killed during his term in office; he was shot by a fanatical Southerner
on the evening of April 14, Good Friday, when he was in the box of the Ford

Theater in Washington, D.C.; He fell into a coma and died nine hours later (b.
1809)

– 1874 – Johannes Stark, German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate in Physics in
1919 (d. 1957) – 150 years old