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File:AESOP.jpg|link=AESOP|1979: Orbital artificial intelligence [[AESOP]] makes contact with space activist and detective [[Gerard K. O'Neill (nonfiction)|Gerard K. O'Neill]].
File:AESOP.jpg|link=AESOP|1979: Orbital artificial intelligence [[AESOP]] makes contact with space activist and detective [[Gerard K. O'Neill (nonfiction)|Gerard K. O'Neill]].


||Guido Stampacchia (d. 27 April 1978) was a 20th-century Italian mathematician, known for his work on the theory of variational inequalities, the calculus of variation and the theory of elliptic partial differential equations. Pic.
||1978: Guido Stampacchia dies ... mathematician, known for his work on the theory of variational inequalities, the calculus of variation and the theory of elliptic partial differential equations. Pic.


||1981 Xerox PARC introduces the computer mouse.
||1981: Xerox PARC introduces the computer mouse.


File:Gerard_O'Neill.gif|link=Gerard K. O'Neill (nonfiction)|1992: Physicist and space activist [[Gerard K. O'Neill (nonfiction)|Gerard Kitchen O'Neill]] dies. He invented particle storage rings and mass drivers; in the 1970s he developed a plan to build human settlements in outer space.  
File:Gerard_O'Neill.gif|link=Gerard K. O'Neill (nonfiction)|1992: Physicist and space activist [[Gerard K. O'Neill (nonfiction)|Gerard Kitchen O'Neill]] dies. He invented particle storage rings and mass drivers; in the 1970s he developed a plan to build human settlements in outer space.  


||Cyrus Derman (d. April 27, 2011) was an American mathematician and amateur musician who did research in Markov decision process, stochastic processes, operations research, statistics and a variety of other fields. Pic.
||1995: Peter Maurice Wright dies ... principal scientific officer for MI5, the British counter-intelligence agency. His book Spycatcher became an international bestseller with sales of over two million copies. Spycatcher was part memoir, part exposé of what Wright claimed were serious institutional failings in MI5 and his subsequent investigations into those.


||2015 Alexander Rich, American biologist, biophysicist, and academic (b. 1924)
||2011: Cyrus Derman dies ... mathematician and amateur musician who did research in Markov decision process, stochastic processes, operations research, statistics and a variety of other fields. Pic.
 
||2015: Alexander Rich dies ... biologist, biophysicist, and academic.


File:Creature_4.jpg|link=Creature 4 (nonfiction)|2018: Signed first edition of ''[[Creature 4 (nonfiction)|Creature 4]]'' sells for $500,000 USD in charity auction to benefit victims of [[crimes against mathematical constants]].
File:Creature_4.jpg|link=Creature 4 (nonfiction)|2018: Signed first edition of ''[[Creature 4 (nonfiction)|Creature 4]]'' sells for $500,000 USD in charity auction to benefit victims of [[crimes against mathematical constants]].


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