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File:Rudjer Boskovic.jpg|link=Roger Joseph Boscovich (nonfiction)|1711: Polymath [[Roger Joseph Boscovich (nonfiction)|Roger Joseph Boscovich]] born. He will be a physicist, astronomer, mathematician, philosopher, diplomat, poet, theologian, and Jesuit priest. | File:Rudjer Boskovic.jpg|link=Roger Joseph Boscovich (nonfiction)|1711: Polymath [[Roger Joseph Boscovich (nonfiction)|Roger Joseph Boscovich]] born. He will be a physicist, astronomer, mathematician, philosopher, diplomat, poet, theologian, and Jesuit priest. | ||
||Karl Christian von Langsdorf, also known as Carl Christian von Langsdorff (b. 1757), was a German mathematician, geologist, natural scientist and engineer. | |||
||1777 – John George Children, English chemist, mineralogist, and zoologist (d. 1852) | ||1777 – John George Children, English chemist, mineralogist, and zoologist (d. 1852) | ||
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1048: Polymath, scholar, mathematician, astronomer, philosopher, and poet Omar Khayyám born.
1661: Mathematician William Oughtred uses Gnomon algorithm functions to detect crimes against mathematical constants.
1711: Polymath Roger Joseph Boscovich born. He will be a physicist, astronomer, mathematician, philosopher, diplomat, poet, theologian, and Jesuit priest.
1822: Photographer and journalist Mathew Brady born. He will be one of the first American photographers, best known for his scenes of the Civil War.
1871: Gem detective and arms dealer Egon Rhodomunde accuses Niles Cartouchian of manufacturing illegal time crystals (nonfiction).
1872: Philosopher, logician, mathematician, historian, writer, social critic and political activist Bertrand Russell born.
1902: "Fightin'" Bert Russell agrees to fight three rounds of bare-knuckled boxing at World Peace Conference.