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1857 – 1936Karl Pearson (1857-1936)Died 27 April 1936, aged 79Karl Pearson was an English mathematician and a founder of modern mathematical statistics. He developed the correlation coefficient and the chi-squared test, and founded the journal Biometrika. He was also a prominent advocate of eugenics.