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• December 16, 1752 Leonhard Euler replies to Christian Goldbach confirming that his conjecture on numbers of the form $2n^{2}+p$ holds true up to 1000. (See A042978).
• December 16, 1893 Kurt Heegner is born in Berlin.
• December 16, 1933 Ludwig Schlesinger dies in Giessen.