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||1678 – Jean-Jacques d'Ortous de Mairan, French geophysicist and astronomer (d. 1771) | ||1678 – Jean-Jacques d'Ortous de Mairan, French geophysicist and astronomer (d. 1771) | ||
|| | ||Charles Adolphe Wurtz (b. 26 November 1817) was an Alsatian French chemist. He is best remembered for his decades-long advocacy for the atomic theory and for ideas about the structures of chemical compounds | ||
|| | ||1832 – Rudolph Koenig, German-French physicist and academic (d. 1901) | ||
|| | ||1836 – John Loudon McAdam, Scottish engineer (b. 1756) | ||
|| | ||1876 – Willis Carrier, American engineer, invented air conditioning (d. 1950) | ||
|| | ||1885 – Thomas Andrews, Irish chemist and physicist (b. 1813) | ||
|| | ||1894 – Norbert Wiener, American-Swedish mathematician and philosopher (d. 1964) | ||
|| | ||1898 – Karl Ziegler, German chemist and engineer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1973) | ||
|| | ||1981 – Max Euwe, Dutch chess player, mathematician, and author (b. 1901) | ||
|| | ||1922 – Howard Carter and Lord Carnarvon become the first people to enter the tomb of Pharaoh Tutankhamun in over 3000 years. | ||
||1922 – Charles M. Schulz, American cartoonist, created Peanuts (d. 2000) | ||1922 – Charles M. Schulz, American cartoonist, created Peanuts (d. 2000) | ||
||1926 – John Browning, American weapons designer, founded the Browning Arms Company (b. 1855) | |||
||1930 – Berthold Leibinger, German engineer and philanthropist, founded Berthold Leibinger Stiftung | ||1930 – Berthold Leibinger, German engineer and philanthropist, founded Berthold Leibinger Stiftung | ||