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1703: Mathematician and cryptographer John Wallis dies. He served as chief cryptographer for Parliament and, later, the royal court.
1807: Engineer, hydrographer, and politician Pierre-Alexandre-Laurent Forfait dies. He designed and oversaw the building of ships, making structural improvements and developing techniques to improve the disposition of cargo in ships' holds.
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.

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 ||1924 – Robert V. Hogg, American statistician and academic (d. 2014)
-||1934 – Carlos Chagas, Brazilian physician and bacteriologist (b. 1879)
+||James Mark Baldwin (d. November 8, 1934) was an American philosopher and psychologist who was educated at Princeton under the supervision of Scottish philosopher James McCosh and who was one of the founders of the Department of Psychology at the university. He made important contributions to early psychology, psychiatry, and to the theory of evolution. Pic.
+||1934 – Carlos Chagas, Brazilian physician and bacteriologist (b. 1879).
 |File:Joseph_Schillinger_and_the_Rhythmicon.jpg|link=Drum machine (nonfiction)|1937: Music educator Joseph Schillinger inspects [[Drum machine (nonfiction)|Rhythmicon]], finds no evidence of [[crimes against mathematical constants]].