Friedrich Georg Wilhelm von Struve

Friedrich Georg Wilhelm von Struve was a Baltic German astronomer and geodesist. He is best known for studying double stars and for initiating a triangulation survey later named Struve Geodetic Arc in his honor.

15 April 1793

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Born in the same month (April 1793): Casimir Delavigne • Ferdinand I of Austria • Félix de Muelenaere