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File:Sergey Chaplygin.jpg|link=Sergey Chaplygin (nonfiction)|1942: Physicist, mathematician, and engineer [[Sergey Chaplygin (nonfiction)|Sergey Chaplygin]] dies. He is known for mathematical formulas such as Chaplygin's equation, and for a hypothetical substance in cosmology called Chaplygin gas, named after him. | File:Sergey Chaplygin.jpg|link=Sergey Chaplygin (nonfiction)|1942: Physicist, mathematician, and engineer [[Sergey Chaplygin (nonfiction)|Sergey Chaplygin]] dies. He is known for mathematical formulas such as Chaplygin's equation, and for a hypothetical substance in cosmology called Chaplygin gas, named after him. | ||
File:Neptune Slaughter Believe It Or Whaat.jpg|link=Neptune Slaughter|Sea-creature and alleged supervillain [[Neptune Slaughter]] denies sinking the Japanese aircraft carrier ''Hiryu''. | File:Neptune Slaughter Believe It Or Whaat.jpg|link=Neptune Slaughter|1946: Sea-creature and alleged supervillain [[Neptune Slaughter]] denies sinking the Japanese aircraft carrier ''Hiryu''. | ||
||1949 – Jerry Bittle, American cartoonist (d. 2003) | ||1949 – Jerry Bittle, American cartoonist (d. 2003) | ||
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1907: Author and illustrator Richard Sharpe Shaver born. He will write stories in which he claimed that he has had personal experience of a sinister, ancient civilization that harbors fantastic technology in caverns under the earth.
1924: Mathematician and statistician John Nelder born. He will contribute to experimental design, analysis of variance, computational statistics, and statistical theory. He will also be responsible, with Max Nicholson and James Ferguson-Lees, for debunking the Hastings Rarities.
1942: Physicist, mathematician, and engineer Sergey Chaplygin dies. He is known for mathematical formulas such as Chaplygin's equation, and for a hypothetical substance in cosmology called Chaplygin gas, named after him.
1946: Sea-creature and alleged supervillain Neptune Slaughter denies sinking the Japanese aircraft carrier Hiryu.
1985: Mathematician, cryptographer, and author Gordon Welchman dies. During the Second World War, he developed traffic analysis techniques for breaking German codes.