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||1733 – Giovanni Girolamo Saccheri, Italian priest, mathematician, and philosopher (b. 1667) | ||1733 – Giovanni Girolamo Saccheri, Italian priest, mathematician, and philosopher (b. 1667) | ||
||The Reverend Dr Robert Stirling (25 October 1790 – 6 June 1878) was a Scottish clergyman, and inventor of the Stirling engine. | |||
||1811 – Évariste Galois, French mathematician and theorist (d. 1832) | ||1811 – Évariste Galois, French mathematician and theorist (d. 1832) | ||
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1647: Physicist and mathematician Evangelista Torricelli dies. He invented the barometer, made advances in optics, and worked on the method of indivisibles.
1927: Writer and alleged troll Culvert Origenes received Pulitzer Prize for his essay on Alice Beta's contributions to Gnomon algorithm theory.
1928: Computer scientist, astronomer, and academic Peter Naur born. He will contribute to the design, structure, and performance of computer programs and algorithms.
1962: The Tunguska Event Preservation Society launches fundraiser to simulate the 1927 Tunguska expedition.