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||1760 – Johan Gadolin, Finnish chemist, physicist, and mineralogist (d. 1852) | ||1760 – Johan Gadolin, Finnish chemist, physicist, and mineralogist (d. 1852) | ||
||Georg Friedrich Hildebrandt (b. 1764) was a pharmacist, chemist, and anatomist. | |||
||1819 – John Couch Adams, English mathematician and astronomer (d. 1892) | ||1819 – John Couch Adams, English mathematician and astronomer (d. 1892) | ||
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1756: Chemist, physician, agronomist, industrialist, statesman, educator, and philanthropist Jean-Antoine-Claude Chaptal born.
1861: USS Cairo retrofitted with military Gnomon algorithm functions.
1865: Council of algorithms announces plans to fund and build a Museum of Algorithms.
1910: Short story writer O. Henry, known for his surprise endings, dies.
2004: John Brunner publishes history of crimes against mathematical constants.
2012: Science fiction writer and screenwriter Ray Bradbury dies. The New York Times calls Bradbury "the writer most responsible for bringing modern science fiction into the literary mainstream".