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||1551: Thomas Drury born ... government informer and swindler ... noted for having been one of the main people responsible for accusations of heresy, blasphemy and seditious atheism on the part of the Elizabethan playwright Christopher Marlowe given to the Privy Council in May 1593. No pics online. | ||1551: Thomas Drury born ... government informer and swindler ... noted for having been one of the main people responsible for accusations of heresy, blasphemy and seditious atheism on the part of the Elizabethan playwright Christopher Marlowe given to the Privy Council in May 1593. No pics online. | ||
||1778: Lorenz Christoph Mizler dies ... physician, mathematician, and historian. Pic search | ||1778: Lorenz Christoph Mizler dies ... physician, mathematician, and historian. Pic search. | ||
File:Scopoli Giovanni Antonio.jpg|link=Giovanni Antonio Scopoli (nonfiction)|1788: Physician, geologist, and botanist [[Giovanni Antonio Scopoli (nonfiction)|Giovanni Antonio Scopoli]] dies. He has been called the "first anational European" and the "Linnaeus of the Austrian Empire". | File:Scopoli Giovanni Antonio.jpg|link=Giovanni Antonio Scopoli (nonfiction)|1788: Physician, geologist, and botanist [[Giovanni Antonio Scopoli (nonfiction)|Giovanni Antonio Scopoli]] dies. He has been called the "first anational European" and the "Linnaeus of the Austrian Empire". | ||
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||1951: Gilbert Ames Bliss dies ... mathematician, known for his work on the calculus of variations. Pic. | ||1951: Gilbert Ames Bliss dies ... mathematician, known for his work on the calculus of variations. Pic. | ||
||19953: Veniamin Kagan dies ... mathematician and academic. He contributed to hyperbolic geometry and Riemannian geometry. Pic search | ||19953: Veniamin Kagan dies ... mathematician and academic. He contributed to hyperbolic geometry and Riemannian geometry. Pic search. | ||
|File:Rhizolith Group.jpg|link=Rhizolith Group|1954: [[Rhizolith Group]] debuts new work based on the [[Bernoulli family (nonfiction)|Bernoulli family]]. | |File:Rhizolith Group.jpg|link=Rhizolith Group|1954: [[Rhizolith Group]] debuts new work based on the [[Bernoulli family (nonfiction)|Bernoulli family]]. | ||
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||2008: Kôdi Husimi dies ... theoretical physicist who served as the president of the Science Council of Japan. Husimi trees in graph theory, the Husimi Q representation in quantum mechanics, and Husimi's theorem in the mathematics of paper folding are named after him. No pic online (except diagrams from papers). | ||2008: Kôdi Husimi dies ... theoretical physicist who served as the president of the Science Council of Japan. Husimi trees in graph theory, the Husimi Q representation in quantum mechanics, and Husimi's theorem in the mathematics of paper folding are named after him. No pic online (except diagrams from papers). | ||
||2012: Maurice Sendak dies ... author and illustrator. | ||2012: Maurice Sendak dies ... author and illustrator. Pic. | ||
||2014: Roger L. Easton dies ... scientist, co-invented the GPS. Pic. | ||2014: Roger L. Easton dies ... scientist, co-invented the GPS. Pic. | ||
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Violet_Spiral_2.jpg|link=Violet Spiral 2 (nonfiction)|2016: Signed first edition of ''[[Violet Spiral 2 (nonfiction)|Violet Spiral 2]]'' stolen from the Walker Art Center in [[New Minneapolis, Canada]] by the [[Forbidden Ratio]] gang. | Violet_Spiral_2.jpg|link=Violet Spiral 2 (nonfiction)|2016: Signed first edition of ''[[Violet Spiral 2 (nonfiction)|Violet Spiral 2]]'' stolen from the Walker Art Center in [[New Minneapolis, Canada]] by the [[Forbidden Ratio]] gang. | ||
||2016: Tom M. Apostol dies ... analytic number theorist. Pic search | ||2016: Tom M. Apostol dies ... analytic number theorist. Pic search. | ||
||2017: Cécile Andrée Paule DeWitt-Morette dies ... mathematician and physicist. Pic. | ||2017: Cécile Andrée Paule DeWitt-Morette dies ... mathematician and physicist. Pic. | ||
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1788: Physician, geologist, and botanist Giovanni Antonio Scopoli dies. He has been called the "first anational European" and the "Linnaeus of the Austrian Empire".
1794: Branded a traitor during the Reign of Terror by revolutionists, French chemist Antoine Lavoisier, who was also a tax collector with the Ferme générale, is tried, convicted and guillotined in one day in Paris.
1872: Adventurer Wallace War-Heels defeats alleged criminal mastermind Baron Zersetzung in single combat.
1873: Economist, civil servant, and philosopher John Stuart Mill dies. He was one of the most influential thinkers in the history of liberalism, and the first Member of Parliament to call for women's suffrage.
1959: Mathematician Renato Caccioppoli takes his own life. Caccioppoli contributed to mathematical analysis, including the theory of functions of several complex variables, functional analysis, and measure theory.
1960: Mathematician and academic J. H. C. Whitehead dies. During the Second World War, he worked with the codebreakers at Bletchley Park.
2016: Signed first edition of Violet Spiral 2 stolen from the Walker Art Center in New Minneapolis, Canada by the Forbidden Ratio gang.