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1829: Army officer, trader, and lecturer John Cleves Symmes, Jr. dies. He invented a variant of the Hollow Earth Theory, with openings to the inner world at the poles.
1936: Computer scientist, mathematician, logician, cryptanalyst and theoretical biologist Alan Turing submits On Computable Numbers for publication.
2015: Information scientist Claire Kelly Schultz dies.

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 File:Alan Turing (1930s).jpg|link=Alan Turing (nonfiction)|1936: Computer scientist, mathematician, logician, cryptanalyst and theoretical biologist [[Alan Turing (nonfiction)|Alan Turing]] submits ''On Computable Numbers'' for publication.
-File:Euglena Junction.jpg|link=Euglena Junction|1974: ''[[Euglena Junction]]'' wins the Prime Time Emmy for Best New Show. Broadcasting live from the Pantages Theater via NBC, host Johnny Carson calls it "an extraordinary study of the genus ''[[Euglena (nonfiction)|Euglena]]'', and a brilliant parody of ''[[Petticoat Junction (nonfiction)|Petticoat Junction]]''."
 ||1980: Rolf Nevanlinna dies ... mathematician and academic. Pic.
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 File:Claire Kelly Schultz.jpg|link=Claire Kelly Schultz (nonfiction)|2015: Information scientist [[Claire Kelly Schultz (nonfiction)|Claire Kelly Schultz]] dies.
-File:Ringmaster-img075-1.jpg|link=Ringmaster (nonfiction)|2016: Signed first edition of ''[[Ringmaster (nonfiction)|Ringmaster]]'' stolen from the Guggenheim by agents of the [[Forbidden Ratio]] gang.
 ||2018: Jens Christian Skou dies ... chemist and physiologist. In 1997 he received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry (together with Paul D. Boyer and John E. Walker) for his discovery of Na+,K+-ATPase. Pic.
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