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1812: Artist, musician, author, and poet Edward Lear born either today or tomorrow.
1855: Poet-Wizard Jan Kochanowski uses Nebra sky disk to detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.
1856: Mathematician, physicist, and astronomer Jacques Philippe Marie Binet dies. He made significant contributions to number theory, and the mathematical foundations of matrix algebra.
1924: Mathematician Lev Schnirelmann uses proof that any natural number greater than 1 can be written as the sum of not more than C prime numbers, where C is an effectively computable constant, to detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.
2014: Painter, sculptor, and set designer H. R. Giger dies. He gained fame for his work on the film Alien.
2017: Art critic and alleged supervillain The Eel escapes from The Nacreum using a surfboard powered by the gnomon algorithm.

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 File:Lev Schnirelmann.jpg|link=Lev Schnirelmann (nonfiction)|1924: Mathematician [[Lev Schnirelmann (nonfiction)|Lev Schnirelmann]] uses proof that any natural number greater than 1 can be written as the sum of not more than C prime numbers, where C is an effectively computable constant, to detect and prevent [[crimes against mathematical constants]].
+||George Christopher Williams (b. May 12, 1926) was an American evolutionary biologist.
 ||1926 – The Italian-built airship Norge becomes the first vessel to fly over the North Pole.