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1561: Mathematician and physicist Thomas Fincke born. He will introduce the modern names of the trigonometric functions tangent and secant.
1655: Mathematician Jacob Bernoulli born. He will discover the fundamental mathematical constant e, and make important contributions to the field of probability.
1918: Mathematician and philosopher Georg Cantor dies. He invented set theory, a fundamental area of mathematical inquiry.
1931: Inventor Thomas Edison signs his last patent application.
2016: Violet Spiral voted Picture of the Day by the citizens of New Minneapolis, Canada.

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 File:Jacob Bernoulli.jpg|link=Jacob Bernoulli (nonfiction)|1655: Mathematician [[Jacob Bernoulli (nonfiction)|Jacob Bernoulli]] born. He will discover the fundamental mathematical constant ''e'', and make important contributions to the field of probability.
-||1689: Seth Ward dies ... bishop, mathematician, and astronomer.
+||1689: Seth Ward dies ... bishop, mathematician, and astronomer. No DOB. Pic.
-||1692: Francesco Maria Zanotti Cavazzoni born ... philosopher and writer.  His 1741 essay on the 'attractive force of ideas' defended a view of the association of ideas influenced by Newtonian physics.
+||1692: Francesco Maria Zanotti born ... philosopher and writer.  His 1741 essay on the 'attractive force of ideas' defended a view of the association of ideas influenced by Newtonian physics. Pic search good: https://www.google.com/search?q=Francesco+Maria+Zanotti
 ||1721: The Committee of Inquiry on the South Sea Bubble publishes its findings.
-||1731: Étienne François Geoffroy dies ... physician and chemist.
+||1731: Étienne François Geoffroy dies ... physician and chemist. Pic.
 ||1745: Jacques-Etienne Montgolfier born ... co-inventor of the hot air balloon.