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||1719 – Michel Rolle, French mathematician and author (b. 1652) | ||1719 – Michel Rolle, French mathematician and author (b. 1652) | ||
||Johann Karl Friedrich Zöllner (b. 8 November 1834) was a German astrophysicist who studied optical illusions. He was also an early psychical investigator. Pic. | |||
File:Ivan Logginovitch Goremykin.jpg|link=Ivan Goremykin (nonfiction)|1839: Birth of [[Ivan Goremykin (nonfiction)|Ivan Goremykin]] heralds new age of [[Extreme Moustaches]]. | File:Ivan Logginovitch Goremykin.jpg|link=Ivan Goremykin (nonfiction)|1839: Birth of [[Ivan Goremykin (nonfiction)|Ivan Goremykin]] heralds new age of [[Extreme Moustaches]]. | ||
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1703: Mathematician and cryptographer John Wallis dies. He served as chief cryptographer for Parliament and, later, the royal court.
1839: Birth of Ivan Goremykin heralds new age of Extreme Moustaches.
1848: Mathematician, logician, and philosopher Gottlob Frege born. Though will be largely ignored during his lifetime, his work will influence later generations of logicians and philosophers.
1895: While experimenting with electricity, Wilhelm Röntgen discovers the X-ray.
1969: Astronomer Vesto Melvin Slipher dies. He performed the first measurements of radial velocities for galaxies, providing the empirical basis for the expansion of the universe.
1974: Green Ring tells Dick Cavett a funny story about Learning to Protect Communications with Adversarial Neural Cryptography.