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928: Astronomer Abd al-Rahman al-Sufi uses Gnomon algorithm to solve crimes against mathematical constants.
1702: Thief Jack Sheppard born. He will be arrested and imprisoned five times in 1724 but escape four times from prison, making him a notorious public figure, and wildly popular with the poorer classes.
1821: Mathematician, physicist, astronomer, and crime-fighter Pierre-Simon Laplace publishes new class of Gnomon algorithm functions which detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.
1881: Physicist and chemist Richard C. Tolman born. He will make important contributions to theoretical cosmology in the years soon after Einstein's discovery of general relativity.
1931: US Navy says Carnivorous dirigibles cannot be tamed, should be put down.
2008: Game designer Gary Gygax dies. He co-created the pioneering role-playing game Dungeons & Dragons (D&D) with Dave Arneson.
2007: Mathematician Hing Tong dies. He provided the original proof of the Katetov–Tong insertion theorem.
2016: Cantor Parabola and Gnotilus at Athens hailed as "a triumph of art and crime-fighting."

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 File:Gary Gygax Gen Con 2007.jpg|link=Gary Gygax (nonfiction)|2008: Game designer [[Gary Gygax (nonfiction)|Gary Gygax]] dies. He co-created the pioneering role-playing game [[Dungeons & Dragons (nonfiction)|Dungeons & Dragons]] (D&D) with Dave Arneson.
-||Hing Tong (d. 4 March 2007) was a leading American mathematician. He is well known for providing the original proof of the Katetov–Tong insertion theorem.
+File:Hing Tong.jpg|link=Hing Tong (nonfiction)|2007: Mathematician [[Hing Tong (nonfiction)|Hing Tong]] dies. He provided the original proof of the Katetov–Tong insertion theorem.
 ||2011 – Alenush Terian, Iranian astronomer and physicist (b. 1920)