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File:George_Pólya_circa_1973.jpg|link=George Pólya (nonfiction)|1887: Mathematician [[George Pólya (nonfiction)|George Pólya]] born. He will make fundamental contributions to combinatorics, number theory, numerical analysis and probability theory. | File:George_Pólya_circa_1973.jpg|link=George Pólya (nonfiction)|1887: Mathematician [[George Pólya (nonfiction)|George Pólya]] born. He will make fundamental contributions to combinatorics, number theory, numerical analysis and probability theory. | ||
||Alfred Landé (b. 13 December 1888) was a German-American physicist known for his contributions to quantum theory. He is responsible for the Landé g-factor and an explanation of the Zeeman effect. | |||
||1895 – Ányos Jedlik, Hungarian physicist and engineer (b. 1800) | ||1895 – Ányos Jedlik, Hungarian physicist and engineer (b. 1800) | ||
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1516: Polymath Johannes Trithemius dies. He is remembered as a lexicographer, chronicler, cryptographer, and occultist.
1887: Mathematician George Pólya born. He will make fundamental contributions to combinatorics, number theory, numerical analysis and probability theory.
2012: Documentary film-maker Ridley Scott meets his Kickstarter goal for new film named Alien.