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||1792: Isaac Lea born ... conchologist, geologist, and publisher. Pic.
||1792: Isaac Lea born ... conchologist, geologist, and publisher. Pic.
File:Pierre-Simon, marquis de Laplace by Guérin.jpg|link=Pierre-Simon Laplace (nonfiction)|1821: Mathematician, physicist, astronomer, and crime-fighter [[Pierre-Simon Laplace (nonfiction)|Pierre-Simon Laplace]] publishes new class of [[Gnomon algorithm functions]] which detect and prevent [[crimes against mathematical constants]].


||1822: Jules Antoine Lissajous born ... mathematician and academic ... after whom Lissajous figures are named. Among other innovations, Lissajous invented the Lissajous apparatus, a device that creates the figures that bear his name. In it, a beam of light is bounced off a mirror attached to a vibrating tuning fork, and then reflected off a second mirror attached to a perpendicularly oriented vibrating tuning fork (usually of a different pitch, creating a specific harmonic interval), onto a wall, resulting in a Lissajous figure. Pic.
||1822: Jules Antoine Lissajous born ... mathematician and academic ... after whom Lissajous figures are named. Among other innovations, Lissajous invented the Lissajous apparatus, a device that creates the figures that bear his name. In it, a beam of light is bounced off a mirror attached to a vibrating tuning fork, and then reflected off a second mirror attached to a perpendicularly oriented vibrating tuning fork (usually of a different pitch, creating a specific harmonic interval), onto a wall, resulting in a Lissajous figure. Pic.
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||1927: Ira Remsen born ... chemist and academic, co-discovered saccarine. Pic.
||1927: Ira Remsen born ... chemist and academic, co-discovered saccarine. Pic.
File:Carnivorous_airships_circa_1930-31.jpg|link=Carnivorous dirigible|1931: US Navy says [[Carnivorous dirigible|Carnivorous dirigibles]] cannot be tamed, should be put down.


||1932: Ed Roth born ... car customizer, illustrator. Pic.
||1932: Ed Roth born ... car customizer, illustrator. Pic.
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File:Hing Tong.jpg|link=Hing Tong (nonfiction)|2007: Mathematician [[Hing Tong (nonfiction)|Hing Tong]] dies. He made contributions to algebraic topology, including a proof of the Katetov–Tong insertion theorem.
File:Hing Tong.jpg|link=Hing Tong (nonfiction)|2007: Mathematician [[Hing Tong (nonfiction)|Hing Tong]] dies. He made contributions to algebraic topology, including a proof of the Katetov–Tong insertion theorem.
File:Cantor Parabola.jpg|link=Cantor Parabola|2007: Math photographer [[Cantor Parabola]] publishes new class of [[Gnomon algorithm]] functions which uses [[Time crystal (nonfiction)|time crystals]] to reveal centuries-old events.


File:Gary Gygax Gen Con 2007.jpg|link=Gary Gygax (nonfiction)|2008: Game designer [[Gary Gygax (nonfiction)|Gary Gygax]] dies. He co-created the pioneering role-playing game [[Dungeons & Dragons (nonfiction)|Dungeons & Dragons]] (D&D) with Dave Arneson.
File:Gary Gygax Gen Con 2007.jpg|link=Gary Gygax (nonfiction)|2008: Game designer [[Gary Gygax (nonfiction)|Gary Gygax]] dies. He co-created the pioneering role-playing game [[Dungeons & Dragons (nonfiction)|Dungeons & Dragons]] (D&D) with Dave Arneson.

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  • 1702: Thief Jack Sheppard born. He will be arrested and imprisoned five times in 1724 but escape four times from prison, making him a notorious public figure, and wildly popular with the poorer classes.

    1702: Thief Jack Sheppard born. He will be arrested and imprisoned five times in 1724 but escape four times from prison, making him a notorious public figure, and wildly popular with the poorer classes.

  • 1881: Physicist and chemist Richard C. Tolman born. He will make important contributions to theoretical cosmology in the years soon after Einstein's discovery of general relativity.

    1881: Physicist and chemist Richard C. Tolman born. He will make important contributions to theoretical cosmology in the years soon after Einstein's discovery of general relativity.

  • Malcolm Dole (TO DO)

    1903: Chemist and academic Malcolm Dole. He will discover the Dole effect, an inequality in the ratio of the heavy isotope 18O (a "standard" oxygen atom with two additional neutrons) to the lighter 16O, measured in the atmosphere and seawater.

  • 2007: Mathematician Hing Tong dies. He made contributions to algebraic topology, including a proof of the Katetov–Tong insertion theorem.

    2007: Mathematician Hing Tong dies. He made contributions to algebraic topology, including a proof of the Katetov–Tong insertion theorem.

  • 2008: Game designer Gary Gygax dies. He co-created the pioneering role-playing game Dungeons & Dragons (D&D) with Dave Arneson.

    2008: Game designer Gary Gygax dies. He co-created the pioneering role-playing game Dungeons & Dragons (D&D) with Dave Arneson.

  • 2016: Cantor Parabola and Gnotilus at Athens hailed as "a triumph of art and crime-fighting." Parabola's work will influence a generation of mathematicians.

    2016: Cantor Parabola and Gnotilus at Athens hailed as "a triumph of art and crime-fighting." Parabola's work will influence a generation of mathematicians.

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