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||1557 – Jacques Cartier, French navigator and explorer (b. 1491) | |||
||1599 – Cornelis de Houtman, Dutch explorer and spy (b.1565) | |||
||1600 – Tadeáš Hájek, Czech physician and astronomer (b. 1525) | |||
||1648 – Marin Mersenne, French mathematician, theologian, and philosopher (b. 1588) | |||
||1654 – Ole Worm, Danish physician and historian (b. 1588) | ||1654 – Ole Worm, Danish physician and historian (b. 1588) | ||
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||1877 – Francis William Aston, English chemist and physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1945) | ||1877 – Francis William Aston, English chemist and physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1945) | ||
||1895 – Engelbert Zaschka, German engineer and designer, invented the Human-powered aircraft (d. 1955) | |||
||1895 – German Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin patents his navigable balloon. | ||1895 – German Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin patents his navigable balloon. | ||
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1945: Mathematician and academic Stefan Banach dies. He was one of the founders of modern functional analysis.
1974: "Hello World" computer program from 1974 warns about the coming of crimes against mathematical constants.