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||1749: Daniel Rutherford born ... chemist and physician.
||1749: Daniel Rutherford born ... chemist and physician.


||1863 – Alfred Perot, French physicist and academic (d. 1925)
||1863: Alfred Perot born ... physicist and academic.


||Oliver Strachey (b. 3 November 1874), a British civil servant in the Foreign Office, was a cryptographer from World War I to World War II. Pic.
||1874: Oliver Strachey born ... British civil servant in the Foreign Office, was a cryptographer from World War I to World War II. Pic.


||1883 – American Old West: Self-described "Black Bart the poet" gets away with his last stagecoach robbery, but leaves a clue that eventually leads to his capture.
||1883: American Old West: Self-described "Black Bart the poet" gets away with his last stagecoach robbery, but leaves a clue that eventually leads to his capture.


||Raymond Louis Wilder (b. 3 November 1896) was an American mathematician, who specialized in topology and gradually acquired philosophical and anthropological interests. Pic.
||1896: Raymond Louis Wilder born ... mathematician, who specialized in topology and gradually acquired philosophical and anthropological interests. Pic.


||1896 – Gustaf Tenggren, Swedish-American illustrator and animator (d. 1970) Disney
||1896: Gustaf Tenggren born ... illustrator and animator ... Disney.


||1899 – Gleb Wataghin, Ukrainian-Italian physicist and academic (d. 1986)
||1899: Gleb Wataghin born ... physicist and academic.


||1901 – André Malraux, French historian, theorist, and author (d. 1976)
||1901: André Malraux born ... historian, theorist, and author


File:George Chrystal.jpg|link=George Chrystal (nonfiction)|1911: Mathematician [[George Chrystal (nonfiction)|George Chrystal]] dies. He was awarded a Gold Medal from the Royal Society of London (confirmed shortly after his death) for his studies of [[Seiche (nonfiction)|seiches]] (wave patterns in large inland bodies of water).
File:George Chrystal.jpg|link=George Chrystal (nonfiction)|1911: Mathematician [[George Chrystal (nonfiction)|George Chrystal]] dies. He was awarded a Gold Medal from the Royal Society of London (confirmed shortly after his death) for his studies of [[Seiche (nonfiction)|seiches]] (wave patterns in large inland bodies of water).


||1914 – Georg Trakl, Austrian-Polish pharmacist and poet (b. 1887)
||1914: Georg Trakl dies ... Austrian-Polish pharmacist and poet. Pic.


||John Alexander Simpson (b. November 3, 1916) worked as an experimental nuclear, and cosmic ray physicist who was deeply committed to educating the public and political leaders about science and its implications. Pic.
||1916: John Alexander Simpson born ... worked as an experimental nuclear, and cosmic ray physicist who was deeply committed to educating the public and political leaders about science and its implications. Pic.


File:Aleksandr Ljapunov.jpg|link=Aleksandr Lyapunov (nonfiction)|1918: Mathematician and physicist [[Aleksandr Lyapunov (nonfiction)|Aleksandr Lyapunov]] dies. Lyapunov contributed to several fields, including differential equations, potential theory, dynamical systems and probability theory. His main preoccupations were the stability of equilibria and the motion of mechanical systems, and the study of particles under the influence of gravity.
File:Aleksandr Ljapunov.jpg|link=Aleksandr Lyapunov (nonfiction)|1918: Mathematician and physicist [[Aleksandr Lyapunov (nonfiction)|Aleksandr Lyapunov]] dies. Lyapunov contributed to several fields, including differential equations, potential theory, dynamical systems and probability theory. His main preoccupations were the stability of equilibria and the motion of mechanical systems, and the study of particles under the influence of gravity.

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  • 1643: Astronomer and mathematician Paul Guldin dies. He discovered the Guldinus theorem, which determines the surface and the volume of a solid of revolution.

    1643: Astronomer and mathematician Paul Guldin dies. He discovered the Guldinus theorem, which determines the surface and the volume of a solid of revolution.

  • 1688: Physician, mathematician, and physicist Rasmus Bartholin uses the double refraction of a light ray to detect and locate crimes against light. Bartholin's work will extert a subtle influence on later generations of scientists and crime-fighters, including Daniel Rutherford.

    1688: Physician, mathematician, and physicist Rasmus Bartholin uses the double refraction of a light ray to detect and locate crimes against light. Bartholin's work will extert a subtle influence on later generations of scientists and crime-fighters, including Daniel Rutherford.

  • 1911: Mathematician George Chrystal dies. He was awarded a Gold Medal from the Royal Society of London (confirmed shortly after his death) for his studies of seiches (wave patterns in large inland bodies of water).

    1911: Mathematician George Chrystal dies. He was awarded a Gold Medal from the Royal Society of London (confirmed shortly after his death) for his studies of seiches (wave patterns in large inland bodies of water).

  • 1918: Mathematician and physicist Aleksandr Lyapunov dies. Lyapunov contributed to several fields, including differential equations, potential theory, dynamical systems and probability theory. His main preoccupations were the stability of equilibria and the motion of mechanical systems, and the study of particles under the influence of gravity.

    1918: Mathematician and physicist Aleksandr Lyapunov dies. Lyapunov contributed to several fields, including differential equations, potential theory, dynamical systems and probability theory. His main preoccupations were the stability of equilibria and the motion of mechanical systems, and the study of particles under the influence of gravity.

  • 1962: Physicist and APTO officer Norman Foster Ramsey Jr. discovers new class of Gnomon algorithm functions which use the separated oscillatory field method to detect and prevent crimes against physical constants.

    1962: Physicist and APTO officer Norman Foster Ramsey Jr. discovers new class of Gnomon algorithm functions which use the separated oscillatory field method to detect and prevent crimes against physical constants.

  • 2018: Signed first edition of Ringmaster stolen from the Vatican by agents of the House of Malevecchio.

    2018: Signed first edition of Ringmaster stolen from the Vatican by agents of the House of Malevecchio.

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