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||Gino Fano (b. 5 January 1871) was an Italian mathematician, best known as the founder of the finite geometry. He was born in Mantua, in Italy and died in Verona, also in Italy. | ||Gino Fano (b. 5 January 1871) was an Italian mathematician, best known as the founder of the finite geometry. He was born in Mantua, in Italy and died in Verona, also in Italy. | ||
||Federigo Enriques (b. 5 January 1871) was an Italian mathematician, now known principally as the first to give a classification of algebraic surfaces in birational geometry, and other contributions in algebraic geometry. | |||
||1886 – Markus Reiner, Israeli physicist and engineer (d. 1976) | ||1886 – Markus Reiner, Israeli physicist and engineer (d. 1976) | ||
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1601: Submarine inventor Cornelius Drebbel warns The Eel "stay out of Dutch waters."
1625: Astronomer Simon Marius dies. He discovered the four largest moons of Jupiter, independently of Galileo Galilei.
1812: Joseph Marie Jacquard has dream which inspires him to build a new type of scrying engine.
1895: French army officer Alfred Dreyfus is stripped of his rank and sentenced to life imprisonment on Devil's Island.
1932: Novelist, literary critic, and philosopher Umberto Eco born. He will cite James Joyce and Jorge Luis Borges as the two modern authors who will have influenced his work the most.
