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||1825 – Pierre Charles L'Enfant, French-American architect and engineer, designed Washington, D.C. (b. 1754) | ||1825 – Pierre Charles L'Enfant, French-American architect and engineer, designed Washington, D.C. (b. 1754) | ||
||1856 – Andrey Markov, Russian mathematician and theorist (d. 1922) | ||1856 – Andrey Markov, Russian mathematician and theorist (d. 1922) |1856 born: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrey_Markov | ||
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||1862 – John Ulric Nef, Swiss-American chemist and academic (d. 1915) | ||1862 – John Ulric Nef, Swiss-American chemist and academic (d. 1915) | ||
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||1924 – James Black, Scottish pharmacologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2010) | ||1924 – James Black, Scottish pharmacologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2010) | ||
||Fritz John (b. 14 June 1910) was a German-born mathematician specialising in partial differential equations and ill-posed problems. His early work was on the Radon transform and he is remembered for John's equation. Pic. | |||
File:John Logie Baird 1917.jpg|link=John Logie Baird (nonfiction)|1946: Engineer and inventor [[John Logie Baird (nonfiction)|John Logie Baird]] dies. He was one of the inventors of the mechanical television. | File:John Logie Baird 1917.jpg|link=John Logie Baird (nonfiction)|1946: Engineer and inventor [[John Logie Baird (nonfiction)|John Logie Baird]] dies. He was one of the inventors of the mechanical television. | ||
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1903: Mathematician and logician Alonzo Church born. He will make major contributions to mathematical logic and the foundations of theoretical computer science.
1946: Engineer and inventor John Logie Baird dies. He was one of the inventors of the mechanical television.
1966: Mathematician Edward Lorenz uses scrying engine to reveal previously unknown crimes against mathematical constants.
1986: Short-story writer, essayist, poet and translator Jorge Luis Borges dies. His best-known books, Ficciones (Fictions) and El Aleph (The Aleph), published in the 1940s, are compilations of short stories interconnected by common themes, including dreams, labyrinths, libraries, mirrors, fictional writers, philosophy, and religion.
1994: Physicist and crime-fighter John Vincent Atanasoff uses the Atanasoff-Berry computer to detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.
1995: Writer Roger Zelazny dies. He won the Nebula award three times, and the Hugo award six times.
1995:The Custodian offers supernatural crime fighter job to deceased writer Roger Zelazny.