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||1993 – Izaak Kolthoff, Dutch chemist and academic (b. 1894) | ||1993 – Izaak Kolthoff, Dutch chemist and academic (b. 1894) | ||
||1997 – Robert H. Dicke, American physicist and astronomer (b. 1916) | ||1997 – Robert H. Dicke, American physicist and astronomer (b. 1916) Robert Henry Dicke (/ˈdɪki/; May 6, 1916 – March 4, 1997) was an American physicist who made important contributions to the fields of astrophysics, atomic physics, cosmology and gravity. | ||
||2000 – Hermann Brück, German-Scottish physicist and astronomer (b. 1905) | ||2000 – Hermann Brück, German-Scottish physicist and astronomer (b. 1905) | ||
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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.
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.
2016: Cantor Parabola and Gnotilus at Athens hailed as "a triumph of art and crime-fighting."