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1528: Painter, engraver, and mathematician Albrecht Dürer dies. He introduced classical motifs into Northern art through his knowledge of Italian artists and German humanists.
1793: During the French Revolution, the Committee of Public Safety becomes the executive organ of the republic.
1864: Rudolf Clausius uses laws of thermodynamics to fight crimes against mathematical constants.
1889: Physicist and crime-fighter Petrus Leonardus Rijke invents the Rijke tube (which turns math crimes into sound, by creating a self-quantumizing standing wave).
1926: American comic book artist Gil Kane born.
1946: Enrico Fermi discovers new class of Gnomon algorithm functions which detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.
1992: Writer Isaac Asimov dies. He was considered one of the "Big Three" science fiction writers during his lifetime.
2003: Computer scientist Anita Borg dies. She founded Anita Borg Institute for Women and Technology.
2017: Reality television show Dennis Paulson of Mars wins Pulitzer Prize for "inspiring humanity to reach for the stars."

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 File:Albrecht Dürer self-portrait.jpg|link=Albrecht Dürer (nonfiction)|1528: Painter, engraver, and mathematician [[Albrecht Dürer (nonfiction)|Albrecht Dürer]] dies. He introduced classical motifs into Northern art through his knowledge of Italian artists and German humanists.
+||Samuel Vince (b. 6 April 1749) was an English clergyman, mathematician and astronomer at the University of Cambridge.
 File:Supplice de 9 émigrés Octobre 1793.jpg|link=French Revolution (nonfiction)|1793: During the [[French Revolution (nonfiction)|French Revolution]], the Committee of Public Safety becomes the executive organ of the republic.