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1533: Philosopher and author Michel de Montaigne born. He will be one of the most significant philosophers of the French Renaissance, known for popularizing the essay as a literary genre.
1552: Clockmaker and mathematician Jost Bürgi born. He will be recognized during his own lifetime as one of the most excellent mechanical engineers of his generation.
1691: Physician, satirist, and polymath John Arbuthnot uses Gnomon algorithm techniques to rewrite existing manuscripts using satirical premises.
1901: Chemist, biochemist, peace activist, author, and educator Linus Pauling born.
1919: New class of Crimes against mathematical constants "exploit vulnerabilities in Leap Year algorithms."
1944: Der Reichsspritzenmeister develops new drug to stimulate crimes against mathematical constants.

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 ||1792 – Karl Ernst von Baer, German biologist, meteorologist, and geographer (d. 1876)
+||Joseph Thomas Clover (b. 28 February 1825) was an English doctor and pioneer of anaesthesia. He invented a variety of pieces of apparatus to deliver anaesthetics including ether and chloroform safely and controllably. By 1871 he had administered anaesthetics 13,000 times without a fatality.
 ||1844 – A gun on USS Princeton explodes while the boat is on a Potomac River cruise, killing six people, including two United States Cabinet members.