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1591: Physician, mathematician, and theorist Joseph Solomon Delmedigo born. He will write Elim (Palms), dealing astronomy, physics, mathematics, medicine, metaphysics, and music theory.
1640: Mathematician Jacques Ozanam born. Ozanam's Récréations mathématiques et physiques (1694) will later be translated into English and remain popular into the modern era.
1806: Physician, scientist, and inventor Edward Davy born. He will play a prominent role in the development of telegraphy, and invent an electric relay.
1839: Mathematician Julius Petersen born. His famous paper Die Theorie der regulären graphs will be a fundamental contribution to modern graph theory.
1915: Mathematician and academic John Tukey born. He will make important contributions to statistical analysis, including the box plot.

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-File:Johannes Stöffler.jpg|link=Johannes Stöffler (nonfiction)|1522: Mathematician [[Johannes Stöffler (nonfiction)|Johannes Stöffler]] uses [[Gnomon algorithm functions]] to predict and prevent [[Crimes against mathematical constants]].
 File:Delmedigo.jpg|link=Joseph Solomon Delmedigo (nonfiction)|1591: Physician, mathematician, and theorist [[Joseph Solomon Delmedigo (nonfiction)|Joseph Solomon Delmedigo]] born. He will write  ''Elim'' (Palms), dealing astronomy, physics, mathematics, medicine, metaphysics, and music theory.
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 ||1970: Sydney Chapman dies ... mathematician and geophysicist. Pic.
-File:Peter Giblets.jpg|link=Peter Giblets|1971: Talk show host [[Peter Giblets]] is arrested for smoking cannabis while filming an episode of ''The Peter Giblets Hour'' before a live studio audience.
 ||1977: Wernher von Braun dies ... physicist and engineer. Pic.