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1845: Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey dies. His government saw the abolition of slavery in the British Empire.
1911: Writer and philosopher Culvert Origenes criticized for his unpatriotic opinions.
1912: Mathematician, physicist, and engineer Henri Poincaré dies. He made many original fundamental contributions to pure and applied mathematics, mathematical physics, and celestial mechanics.
1920: Physicist and academic Gordon Gould born. He will invent and name the laser.
1929: Physicist and academic Ukichiro Nakaya uses Gnomon algorithm techniques to create artificial snowflakes which detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.
1944: Mathematician and anthropologist William James Sidis dies. He became famous first for his precocity and later for his eccentricity and withdrawal from public life.
2015: Transdimensional corporation spontaneously generates four-dimensional bacteriophage.

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 File:Culvert Origenes.jpg|link=Culvert Origenes|1911: Writer and philosopher [[Culvert Origenes]] criticized for his unpatriotic opinions.
 File:Henri Poincaré.jpg|link=Henri Poincaré (nonfiction)|1912: Mathematician, physicist, and engineer [[Henri Poincaré (nonfiction)|Henri Poincaré]] dies. He made many original fundamental contributions to pure and applied mathematics, mathematical physics, and celestial mechanics.
+File:Gordon Gould.jpg|link=Gordon Gould (nonfiction)|1920: Physicist and academic [[Gordon Gould (nonfiction)|Gordon Gould]] born. He will invent and name the laser.
 File:Nakaya Ukichiro in 1946.jpg|link=Ukichiro Nakaya (nonfiction)|1929: Physicist and academic [[Ukichiro Nakaya (nonfiction)|Ukichiro Nakaya]] uses [[Gnomon algorithm]] techniques to create artificial snowflakes which detect and prevent [[crimes against mathematical constants]].