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||1905: Per Teodor Cleve dies ... chemist, biologist, mineralogist, oceanographer, and professor. He discovered the chemical elements holmium and thulium and helped isolate helium from the uranium ore cleveite. Pic.
||1905: Per Teodor Cleve dies ... chemist, biologist, mineralogist, oceanographer, and professor. He discovered the chemical elements holmium and thulium and helped isolate helium from the uranium ore cleveite. Pic.


||1907: Professor Alexander Stewart Herschel dies ... astronomer. He did pioneering work in meteor spectroscopy, and worked on identifying comets as the source of meteor showers. The Herschel graph, the smallest non-Hamiltonian polyhedral graph, is named after him. Pic.
||1907: Alexander Stewart Herschel dies ... astronomer. He did pioneering work in meteor spectroscopy, and worked on identifying comets as the source of meteor showers. The Herschel graph, the smallest non-Hamiltonian polyhedral graph, is named after him. Pic.


||1910: Maurice Stevenson Bartlett born ... statistician who made particular contributions to the analysis of data with spatial and temporal patterns. He is also known for his work in the theory of statistical inference and in multivariate analysis. Pic.
||1910: Maurice Stevenson Bartlett born ... statistician who made particular contributions to the analysis of data with spatial and temporal patterns. He is also known for his work in the theory of statistical inference and in multivariate analysis. Pic.
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||1918: Johann Heinrich Graf dies ... mathematician who was rector of the University of Bern and promoter of the Swiss National Library. Pic.
||1918: Johann Heinrich Graf dies ... mathematician who was rector of the University of Bern and promoter of the Swiss National Library. Pic.


||1922: Jacobus Kapteyn dies ... astronomer and academic. Pic.
File:Jacobus Kapteyn.jpg|link=Jacobus Kapteyn (nonfiction)|1922: Astronomer and academic [[Jacobus Kapteyn (nonfiction)|Jacobus Kapteyn]] dies. Kapteyn conducted extensive studies of the Milky Way using photography and statistical methods to determine the motions and distribution of stars, discovering evidence for galactic rotation.


||1926: Allan Sandage born ... astronomer and cosmologist. Pic.
||1926: Allan Sandage born ... astronomer and cosmologist. Pic.

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  • 1178: Five Canterbury monks see what is possibly the Giordano Bruno crater being formed. It is believed that the current oscillations of the Moon's distance from the Earth (on the order of meters) are a result of this collision.

    1178: Five Canterbury monks see what is possibly the Giordano Bruno crater being formed. It is believed that the current oscillations of the Moon's distance from the Earth (on the order of meters) are a result of this collision.

  • 1348: Physician and academic Gentile Gentili da Foligno dies. Da Foligno was among the first European physicians to perform a dissection on a human being (1341).

    1348: Physician and academic Gentile Gentili da Foligno dies. Da Foligno was among the first European physicians to perform a dissection on a human being (1341).

  • 1922: Astronomer and academic Jacobus Kapteyn dies. Kapteyn conducted extensive studies of the Milky Way using photography and statistical methods to determine the motions and distribution of stars, discovering evidence for galactic rotation.

    1922: Astronomer and academic Jacobus Kapteyn dies. Kapteyn conducted extensive studies of the Milky Way using photography and statistical methods to determine the motions and distribution of stars, discovering evidence for galactic rotation.

  • 1928: Aviator Amelia Earhart becomes the first woman to fly in an aircraft across the Atlantic Ocean (she is a passenger; Wilmer Stultz is the pilot and Lou Gordon the mechanic).

    1928: Aviator Amelia Earhart becomes the first woman to fly in an aircraft across the Atlantic Ocean (she is a passenger; Wilmer Stultz is the pilot and Lou Gordon the mechanic).

  • 1974: Mathematician and academic Júlio César de Mello e Souza dies. He is well known in Brazil and abroad by his books on recreational mathematics, most of them published under the pen names of Malba Tahan and Breno de Alencar Bianco.

    1974: Mathematician and academic Júlio César de Mello e Souza dies. He is well known in Brazil and abroad by his books on recreational mathematics, most of them published under the pen names of Malba Tahan and Breno de Alencar Bianco.

  • 2017: Culvert Origenes and The Governess wins Pulitzer Prize for Best Historical Illustration.

    2017: Culvert Origenes and The Governess wins Pulitzer Prize for Best Historical Illustration.

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