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||1605: Clergyman, mathematician, and astrologer Nathaniel Torporley buried.
||1605: Clergyman, mathematician, and astrologer Nathaniel Torporley buried.


File:Pierre de Fermat.jpg|link=Pierre de Fermat (nonfiction)|1627: Mathematician [[Pierre de Fermat (nonfiction)|Pierre de Fermat]] writes a marginal note about a "Last Last Theorem" which will "surely solve all cases of [[crimes against mathematical constants]], both past and future."
File:Johan Carl Wilcke.jpg|link=Johan Wilcke (nonfiction)|1781: Physicist [[Johan Wilcke (nonfiction)|Johan Carl Wilcke]] invents an electrophorus which uses [[Gnomon algorithm]] techniques to calculate the latent heat of ice.


||1790 – Benjamin Franklin, American inventor, publisher, and politician, 6th President of Pennsylvania (b. 1706)
||1790 – Benjamin Franklin, American inventor, publisher, and politician, 6th President of Pennsylvania (b. 1706)

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