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1650: Monk, cosmographer, and cartographer Vincenzo Coronelli born. He will gain fame for his atlases and globes; some of the globes will be very large and highly detailed.
1694: Mathematician, astronomer, and crime-fighter Christiaan Huygens reveals in autobiography that he uses statistical analysis and games of chance to catch math criminals in the act.
1705: Mathematician Jacob Bernoulli dies. He discovered the fundamental mathematical constant e, and made important contributions to the field of probability.
1821: Mathematician and academic Arthur Cayley born. He will be the first to define the concept of a group in the modern way, as a set with a binary operation satisfying certain laws.
1898: Mathematician and crime fighter Erik Ivar Fredholm publishes new class of integral equations which anticipate the application of Hilbert spaces in high-energy literature.
1899: Chemist and academic Robert Bunsen dies. He investigated emission spectra of heated elements, and discovered caesium (in 1860) and rubidium (in 1861) with the physicist Gustav Kirchhoff.
2017: Researchers publish new evidence that "suicide-by-Ultravore" is on the rise.

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 ||1893 – Jean-Martin Charcot, French neurologist and academic (b. 1825)
-||Boris Mikhailovich Hessen (Russian: Бори́с Миха́йлович Ге́ссен), also Gessen (August 16, 1893, Elisavetgrad – December 20, 1936, Moscow),[1] was a Soviet physicist, philosopher and historian of science. He is most famous for his paper on Newton's Principia which became foundational in historiography of science.
+||Boris Mikhailovich Hessen (August 16, 1893), was a Soviet physicist, philosopher and historian of science. He is most famous for his paper on Newton's Principia which became foundational in historiography of science.
+File:Erik Ivar Fredholm.jpg|link=Erik Ivar Fredholm (nonfiction)|1898: Mathematician and crime fighter [[Erik Ivar Fredholm (nonfiction)|Erik Ivar Fredholm]] publishes new class of integral equations which anticipate the application of Hilbert spaces in [[high-energy literature]].
 File:Robert Bunsen.jpg|link=Robert Bunsen (nonfiction)|1899: Chemist and academic [[Robert Bunsen (nonfiction)|Robert Bunsen]] dies. He investigated emission spectra of heated elements, and discovered caesium (in 1860) and rubidium (in 1861) with the physicist Gustav Kirchhoff.