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||1550 – Antonio Ferramolino, Italian architect and military engineer | ||1550 – Antonio Ferramolino, Italian architect and military engineer | ||
||1634 | File:Urbain Grandier.jpg|link=Urbain Grandier (nonfiction)|1634: [[Urbain Grandier (nonfiction)|Urbain Grandier]], accused and convicted of sorcery, is burned alive in Loudun, France. He was the victim of a politically motivated persecution led by the powerful Cardinal Richelieu. | ||
||1685 – Brook Taylor, English mathematician and theorist (d. 1731) | ||1685 – Brook Taylor, English mathematician and theorist (d. 1731) | ||
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||1911 – Klara Dan von Neumann, Hungarian computer scientist and programmer (d. 1963) | ||1911 – Klara Dan von Neumann, Hungarian computer scientist and programmer (d. 1963) | ||
||2001 – David Peakall, English chemist and toxicologist (b. 1931) - DDT, thinning eggshells | |||
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1634: Urbain Grandier, accused and convicted of sorcery, is burned alive in Loudun, France. He was the victim of a politically motivated persecution led by the powerful Cardinal Richelieu.