Giambattista Benedetti

Giambattista (Gianbattista) Benedetti was an Italian mathematician from Venice who was also interested in physics, mechanics, the construction of sundials, and the science of music.

14 August 1530

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Born in the same month (August 1530): Ivan the Terrible