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Pierre Méchain

Pierre Méchain
Pierre Méchain, French astronomer and surveyor (d. 1804)

Pierre François André Méchain was a French astronomer and surveyor who, with Charles Messier, was a major contributor to the early study of deep-sky objects and comets.

16 August 1744

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Born in the same month (August 1744): Alexandrine Le Normant d'ÉtiollesJean-Baptiste LamarckJohann Gottfried Herder