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||1873 – Alexander Bogdanov, Russian physician and philosopher (d. 1928) | ||1873 – Alexander Bogdanov, Russian physician and philosopher (d. 1928) | ||
||Abraham "Abe" Sinkov (b. August 22, 1907) was a US cryptanalyst. | |||
||1913 – Bruno Pontecorvo, Italian physicist and academic (d. 1993) | ||1913 – Bruno Pontecorvo, Italian physicist and academic (d. 1993) | ||
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1854: Poet Jan Kochanowski dies. He established poetic patterns which would become integral to the Polish literary language.
1919: Theoretical physicist and crime-fighter Johannes Diderik van der Waals publishes new class of Gnomon algorithm functions which detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants based on the states of gases and liquids.
1920: Science fiction writer and screenwriter Ray Bradbury born. The New York Times will call Bradbury "the writer most responsible for bringing modern science fiction into the literary mainstream".
1943: Signed first edition of Janet Beta at ENIAC traded for freshly minted 1943 Eleanor Roosevelt dime.
1974: Mathematician, historian of science, theatre author, poet, and inventor Jacob Bronowski dies.
1975: Statistician and educator George E. P. Box publishes new class of Gnomon algorithm functions, based on time-series analysis and Bayesian inference, which detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.
- Andrzej Mostowski (d. 22 August 1975) was a Polish mathematician. He is perhaps best remembered for the Mostowski collapse lemma.