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||1887 – Marcel Duchamp, French-American painter and sculptor (d. 1968)
||1887 – Marcel Duchamp, French-American painter and sculptor (d. 1968)


||1902 – Sir Karl Popper, Austrian-English philosopher and academic (d. 1994)
File:Karl Popper.jpg|link=Karl Popper (nonfiction)|1902: Philosopher and academic [[Karl Popper (nonfiction)|Karl Popper]] born. He will be known for his rejection of the classical inductivist views on the scientific method, in favor of empirical falsification: A theory in the empirical sciences can never be proven, but it can be falsified, meaning that it can and should be scrutinized by decisive experiments.  


||Arthur Sard (b. 28 July 1909) was an American mathematician, famous for his work in differential topology and in spline interpolation. His fame stems primarily from Sard's theorem, which says that the set of critical values of a differential function which has sufficiently many derivatives has measure zero.
||Arthur Sard (b. 28 July 1909) was an American mathematician, famous for his work in differential topology and in spline interpolation. His fame stems primarily from Sard's theorem, which says that the set of critical values of a differential function which has sufficiently many derivatives has measure zero.

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