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||2002 – John R. Pierce, American engineer and author (b. 1910) TV radio sound | ||2002 – John R. Pierce, American engineer and author (b. 1910) TV radio sound | ||
||Robert Lawson Vaught (d. April 2, 2002) was a mathematical logician, and one of the founders of model theory. Pic. | |||
||2004 – John Argyris, Greek computer scientist, engineer, and academic (b. 1913) | ||2004 – John Argyris, Greek computer scientist, engineer, and academic (b. 1913) | ||
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1565: Explorer Cornelis de Houtman born. He will discover a new sea route from Europe to Indonesia, beginning the Dutch spice trade.
1615: Mathematician, physicist, astronomer, and crime-fighter Galileo Galilei teams up with orbital artificial intelligence AESOP to stop crimes against the ionosphere.
1618: Mathematician and physicist Francesco Maria Grimaldi born. Working with Riccioli, he will investigate the free fall of objects, confirming that the distance of fall was proportional to the square of the time taken.
1902: Graphic designer and typographer Jan Tschichold born. He will become a leading advocate of Modernist design, but later condemn Modernist design in general as being authoritarian and inherently fascistic.
1922: Turbulent Head awarded Newbery Medal for "best new children's book cover art."
1923: Polymath George Spencer-Brown born. He will write Laws of Form, calling it the "primary algebra" and the "calculus of indications".