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||1832 – Franz Xaver von Zach, Hungarian-French astronomer and academic (b. 1754) | ||1832 – Franz Xaver von Zach, Hungarian-French astronomer and academic (b. 1754) | ||
||Sumner Increase Kimball (b. September 2, 1834) was the organizer of the United States Life-Saving Service and the General Superintendent of the Life-Saving Service from 1878-1915. | |||
||1834 – Thomas Telford, Scottish engineer and architect, designed the Menai Suspension Bridge (b. 1757) | ||1834 – Thomas Telford, Scottish engineer and architect, designed the Menai Suspension Bridge (b. 1757) | ||
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1768: French mathematician and engineer Antoine Deparcieux dies. He made a living manufacturing sundials.
1865: Physicist, astronomer, and mathematician William Rowan Hamilton dies. He made important contributions to classical mechanics, optics, and algebra, inventing the quaternion.
1947: Mathematician and crimefighter Haskell Curry publishes new theory of combinatory logic which uses Gnomon algorithm functions to detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.
1948: Archaeologist and spy Sylvanus Morley dies. He conducted espionage in Mexico on behalf of the United States during World War I; the scope of these activities only came to light well after his death.
1999: Signed first edition of The Eel Escapes Hydrolab sells for one and a half million dollars.
2017: Quaternion multiplication table sells for two million dollars.