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1810: Chemist, physicist, and philosopher Henry Cavendish dies. He discovered "inflammable air", later named hydrogen.
1842: Osman Hamdi Bey dies. He was an administrator, intellectual, art expert, painter, and archaeologist.
1967: Mathematician and crime-fighter Hugo Steinhaus uses the Banach–Steinhaus theorem to detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.
1971: New evidence suggests that the events depicted in The Eel Escapes Hydrolab occurred near the Bahamas.
2001: Mathematician, engineer, and information scientist Claude Shannon dies.
2001: Brion Gysin delivers eulogy for Claude Shannon.

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 ||1856 – Nikolai Lobachevsky, Russian mathematician and academic (b. 1792)
-File:The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters.jpg|link=The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters (nonfiction)|1861: ''[[The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters (nonfiction)|The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters]]'' used to commit [[crimes against mathematical constants]].
 File:Osman Hamdi Bey.jpg|link=|link=Osman Hamdi Bey (nonfiction)|1842: [[Osman Hamdi Bey (nonfiction)|Osman Hamdi Bey]] dies.  He was an administrator, intellectual, art expert, painter, and archaeologist.