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File:Edward Lorenz.jpg|link=Edward Lorenz (nonfiction)|1998: Mathematician [[Edward Lorenz (nonfiction)|Edward Lorenz]] awarded Pulitzer Prize for advances in [[high-energy literature]] theory. | |||
File:Epic of Gilgamesh tablet V.jpg|link=Literature (nonfiction)|1999: [[Literature (nonfiction)|Gilgamesh tablet]] unhappy about missing sections, demands [[high-energy literature]] therapy. | ||1588 – Bernardino Telesio, Italian philosopher and scientist (b. 1509) | ||
||1804 – Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot, French engineer (b. 1725) | |||
||1852 – William Ramsay, Scottish-English chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1916) | |||
||1853 – François Arago, French mathematician, physicist, astronomer, and politician, 25th Prime Minister of France (b. 1786) | |||
||1854 – Patrick Geddes, Scottish biologist, sociologist, geographer, and philanthropist (d. 1932) | |||
||1883 – Karl von Terzaghi, Czech-American geologist and engineer (d. 1963) | |||
||1907 – Alexander R. Todd, Scottish-English biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1997) | |||
||1909 – Alex Raymond, American cartoonist, creator of Flash Gordon (d. 1956) | |||
||1914 – Jack Parsons, American chemist, occultist, and engineer (d. 1952) | |||
||1917 – Christian de Duve, English-Belgian cytologist and biochemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2013) | |||
||1921 – Albert Scott Crossfield, American pilot and engineer (d. 2006) | |||
||1925 – John Logie Baird performs the first test of a working television system. | |||
||1927 – Svante Arrhenius, Swedish physicist and chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1859) | |||
||1933 – John Gurdon, English biologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate | |||
||1947 – P. D. Ouspensky, Russian-English mathematician and philosopher (b. 1878) | |||
||1950 – Peanuts by Charles M. Schulz is first published. | |||
||1959 – The anthology series The Twilight Zone premieres on CBS television. | |||
||1962 – Boris Yakovlevich Bukreev, Russian mathematician and author (b. 1859) | |||
||1996 – The Electronic Freedom of Information Act Amendments are signed by U.S. President Bill Clinton. | |||
||2002 – Heinz von Foerster, Austrian-American physicist and philosopher (b. 1911) | |||
||2006 – Paul Halmos, Hungarian-American mathematician (b. 1916) | |||
||2013 – Abraham Nemeth, American mathematician and academic (b. 1918) | |||
|File:Edward Lorenz.jpg|link=Edward Lorenz (nonfiction)|1998: Mathematician [[Edward Lorenz (nonfiction)|Edward Lorenz]] awarded Pulitzer Prize for advances in [[high-energy literature]] theory. | |||
|File:Epic of Gilgamesh tablet V.jpg|link=Literature (nonfiction)|1999: [[Literature (nonfiction)|Gilgamesh tablet]] unhappy about missing sections, demands [[high-energy literature]] therapy. | |||
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