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File:Benoit Mandelbrot.jpg|link=Benoit Mandelbrot (nonfiction)|2010: Mathematician [[Benoit Mandelbrot (nonfiction)|Benoit Mandelbrot]] dies. | File:Benoit Mandelbrot.jpg|link=Benoit Mandelbrot (nonfiction)|2010: Mathematician [[Benoit Mandelbrot (nonfiction)|Benoit Mandelbrot]] dies. | ||
||2010: Mathematician and academic Wilhelm Paul Albert Klingenberg dies. He worked on differential geometry, in particular on closed geodesics. Pic. | |||
||2011: Ashawna Hailey dies ... computer scientist and philanthropist. | ||2011: Ashawna Hailey dies ... computer scientist and philanthropist. | ||
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1831: Astronomer Jean-Louis Pons dies. He was the greatest visual comet discoverer of all time: between 1801 and 1827, Pons discovered thirty-seven comets, more than any other person in history.
1881: Writer and alleged troll Culvert Origenes calls Extract of Radium "a plague on all living things, and a curse on civilization."
1884: Inventor George Eastman receives a U.S. Government patent on his new paper-strip photographic film.
1948: Musician and physicist J. R. Oppenheimer performs his hit song "Destroyer of Worlds" at the Grand Ole Opry, leading to his being summoned before the House Un-American Activities Committee.
2010: Mathematician Benoit Mandelbrot dies.
2016: Blue City Sunset voted Picture of the Day by the citizens of New Minneapolis, Canada.
