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1672: Mathematician and politician Johan de Witt dies in a riot. The rioters will partially eat his body.
1923: Miniaturized version of John Ambrose Fleming delivers lecture from within Fleming tube.
1961: Physicist and academic Percy Williams Bridgman dies. He won the 1946 Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on the physics of high pressures.
1962: Mathematician and crime-fighter Alice Beta publishes new class of Gnomon algorithm functions which detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.

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 ||1923: Tom Mike Apostol born ... analytic number theorist and professor at the California Institute of Technology, best known as the author of widely used mathematical textbooks.
-||1923: Vilfredo Pareto dies ... economist and sociologist, known for his application of mathematics to economic analysis and for his theory of the 'circulation of elites', asserting that the distribution of incomes and wealth in society is not random and that a consistent pattern appears throughout history, in all parts of the world and in all societies.
 File:John_Fleming_in_Fleming_tube.jpg|link=John Ambrose Fleming (nonfiction)|1923: Miniaturized version of [[John Ambrose Fleming (nonfiction)|John Ambrose Fleming]] delivers lecture from within Fleming tube.