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1581: Mathematician and linguist Claude Gaspard Bachet de Méziriac born. He will do work in number theory and find a method of constructing magic squares.
1582: Astronomer and mathematician Michael Maestlin uses Copernican system of the solar system to predict imminent outbreak of crimes against mathematical constants.
1859: Alfred Dreyfus born. He will be wrongly convicted of treason during the Dreyfus affair.
1903: "Fightin'" Bert Russell agrees to fight three rounds of bare-knuckled boxing at World Peace Conference.
1918: CIA officer and author E. Howard Hunt born. Along with G. Gordon Liddy, Hunt will plot the Watergate burglaries and other undercover operations for the Nixon administration.
1948: Mathematician Joseph Wedderburn dies. He made significant contributions to algebra, proving that a finite division algebra is a field, and proving part of the Artin–Wedderburn theorem on simple algebras.
2017: Artificial intelligence based on the Golden ratio develops genuine gratitude for Michael Maestlin's approximation of the Golden ratio.

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 ||1943 – Pieter Zeeman, Dutch physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1865)
+||S. Barry Cooper (b. 9 October 1943) was a British mathematician and computability theorist. His book ''Computability Theory'' made the technical research area accessible to a new generation of students. Pic.
 File:Joseph Wedderburn.jpg|link=Joseph Wedderburn (nonfiction)|1948: Mathematician [[Joseph Wedderburn (nonfiction)|Joseph Wedderburn]] dies. He made significant contributions to algebra, proving that a finite division algebra is a field, and proving part of the Artin–Wedderburn theorem on simple algebras.