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||1801: Auguste Arthur de la Rive born ... physicist. | ||1801: Auguste Arthur de la Rive born ... physicist. | ||
||1806: Benjamin Banneker dies ... astronomer and surveyor. | ||1806: Benjamin Banneker dies ... astronomer and surveyor. Pic. | ||
||1807: Giovanni Francesco Giuseppe Malfatti, also known as Gian Francesco or Gianfrancesco, dies ... mathematician. Pic. | ||1807: Giovanni Francesco Giuseppe Malfatti, also known as Gian Francesco or Gianfrancesco, dies ... mathematician. Pic. | ||
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||1987: William P. Murphy dies ... physician and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. | ||1987: William P. Murphy dies ... physician and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. | ||
|| | ||1988: Felix Wankel dies ... engineer, invented the Wankel engine. | ||
||1999: Milton "Bags" Jackson dies ... jazz vibraphonist, usually thought of as a bebop player, although he performed in several jazz idioms. He is especially remembered for his cool swinging solos as a member of the Modern Jazz Quartet and his penchant for collaborating with several hard bop and post-bop players. | ||1999: Milton "Bags" Jackson dies ... jazz vibraphonist, usually thought of as a bebop player, although he performed in several jazz idioms. He is especially remembered for his cool swinging solos as a member of the Modern Jazz Quartet and his penchant for collaborating with several hard bop and post-bop players. | ||
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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.
