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File: | File:Albrecht Dürer self-portrait.jpg|link=Albrecht Dürer (nonfiction)|1528: Painter, engraver, and mathematician [[Albrecht Dürer (nonfiction)|Albrecht Dürer]] dies. Dürer is regarded as the greatest German Renaissance artist: his vast body of work will include altarpieces and religious works, numerous portraits and self-portraits, and copper engravings. | ||
File:Supplice de 9 émigrés Octobre 1793.jpg|link=French Revolution (nonfiction)|1793: During the [[French Revolution (nonfiction)|French Revolution]], the Committee of Public Safety becomes the executive organ of the republic. | |||
File:Niels_Henrik_Abel.jpg|link=Niels Henrik Abel (nonfiction)|1829: Mathematician and theorist [[Niels Henrik Abel (nonfiction)|Niels Henrik Abel]] dies. Abel made pioneering contributions in a variety of fields, including the discovery of Abelian functions, and the first complete proof demonstrating the impossibility of solving the general quintic equation in radicals. | |||
File:Gil Kane.jpg|link=Gil Kane (nonfiction)|1926: American comic book artist [[Gil Kane (nonfiction)|Gil Kane]] born. Kane will pioneer graphic novels with his books ''His Name is...Savage'' (1968) and ''Blackmark'' (1971). | |||
File:Isaac Asimov.jpg|link=Isaac Asimov (nonfiction)|1992: Writer [[Isaac Asimov (nonfiction)|Isaac Asimov]] dies. Asimov is one of the "Big Three" science fiction writers of his generation. | |||
||2019: David James Thouless dies - condensed-matter physicist.[8] He was awarded the 1990 Wolf Prize and a laureate of the 2016 Nobel Prize for physics along with F. Duncan M. Haldane and J. Michael Kosterlitz for theoretical discoveries of topological phase transitions and topological phases of matter. | |||
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1528: Painter, engraver, and mathematician Albrecht Dürer dies. Dürer is regarded as the greatest German Renaissance artist: his vast body of work will include altarpieces and religious works, numerous portraits and self-portraits, and copper engravings.
1793: During the French Revolution, the Committee of Public Safety becomes the executive organ of the republic.
1829: Mathematician and theorist Niels Henrik Abel dies. Abel made pioneering contributions in a variety of fields, including the discovery of Abelian functions, and the first complete proof demonstrating the impossibility of solving the general quintic equation in radicals.
1926: American comic book artist Gil Kane born. Kane will pioneer graphic novels with his books His Name is...Savage (1968) and Blackmark (1971).
1992: Writer Isaac Asimov dies. Asimov is one of the "Big Three" science fiction writers of his generation.
