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File:Baron Zersetzung.jpg|link=Baron Zersetzung|1974: Industrialist, public motivational speaker, and alleged crime boss [[Baron Zersetzung]] says he "advised President Nixon to resign with dignity, and take revenge later."
File:Baron Zersetzung.jpg|link=Baron Zersetzung|1974: Industrialist, public motivational speaker, and alleged crime boss [[Baron Zersetzung]] says he "advised President Nixon to resign with dignity, and take revenge later."


||1996 – Frank Whittle, English soldier and engineer, invented the jet engine (b. 1907)
||1996 – Frank Whittle, English soldier and engineer, invented the jet engine (b. 1907)


||Abraham Haskel Taub (d. 1999) was a distinguished American mathematician and physicist, well known for his important contributions to the early development of general relativity, as well as differential geometry and differential equations.
||Abraham Haskel Taub (d. 1999) was a distinguished American mathematician and physicist, well known for his important contributions to the early development of general relativity, as well as differential geometry and differential equations.
File:Armand Borel.jpg|link=Armand Borel (nonfiction)|2000: Mathematician and crime-fighter [[Armand Borel (nonfiction)|Armand Borel]] publishes new theory of linear algebraic groups with applications in detecting and preventing [[crimes against mathematical constants]].


File:James Van Allen.jpg|link=James Van Allen (nonfiction)|2006: Physicist and philosopher [[James Van Allen (nonfiction)|James Van Allen]] dies. The Van Allen radiation belts are named after him, following their discovery by his Geiger–Müller tube instruments aboard satellites in 1958.
File:James Van Allen.jpg|link=James Van Allen (nonfiction)|2006: Physicist and philosopher [[James Van Allen (nonfiction)|James Van Allen]] dies. The Van Allen radiation belts are named after him, following their discovery by his Geiger–Müller tube instruments aboard satellites in 1958.

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