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1695: Academic, diplomat, spy, inventor and mathematician Samuel Morland dies. Morland contributed to early developments in computing, hydraulics, and steam power.
1842: Osman Hamdi Bey born. He will be an administrator, intellectual, art expert, painter, and archaeologist.
1850: Publication of Den Overraskende Veludstyrede Lille Kanonbåd ("The Surprisingly Well-Equipped Small Gunboat") by Danish author and military historiographer Hans Christian Andersen.
1892: Mathematician Pekka Myrberg born. He will do fundamental work on the iteration of rational functions (especially quadratic functions), developing the concept of period-doubling. Myrberg's research will revive interest in the results of Gaston Julia and Pierre Fatou.
1916: Mystic and faith healer Grigori Rasputin dies.
1947: Mathematician and philosopher Alfred North Whitehead dies. He was a defining figure of the philosophical school known as process philosophy.
1947: Painter and forger Han van Meegeren dies. He was one of the most ingenious art forgers of the 20th century.
2013: Mathematician and academic Paul Sally dies. He was known as "a legendary math professor at the University of Chicago".

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 ||1905: Former Idaho Governor Frank Steunenberg is assassinated at the front gate of his home in Caldwell. Pic.
+||1911: Gregory Hugh Wannier born - physicist. He developed a complete set of orthogonal functions known as the Wannier functions[2][3] which became tools of the trade for solid-state theorists. He also had made contributions to ferromagnetic theory via the Ising model. The Kramers–Wannier duality yields the exact location of the critical point for the Ising model on the square lattice.
 File:Grigori Rasputin 1916.jpg|link=Grigori Rasputin (nonfiction)|1916: Mystic and faith healer [[Grigori Rasputin (nonfiction)|Grigori Rasputin]] dies.