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January 10

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  1. 1915 CEHindu · died

    Swami Trigunatitananda, a disciple of Ramakrishna who built one of the first Hindu temples in the West at San Francisco, died in 1915.

  2. 2001 CEIslamic · died

    Muhammad ibn Salih al-Uthaymeen, one of the most widely studied Saudi jurists of the twentieth century, died in Jeddah.

  3. 1778 CEScience · died

    Carl Linnaeus, the Swedish naturalist who formalized the two-name system for naming living things and is called the father of modern taxonomy, died at Hammarby.

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