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File:Vandal Savage Field Report Small Boy.jpg|link=Vandal Savage (nonfiction)|1963: ''Field Report Number One'' by [[Vandal Savage (nonfiction)|Vandal Savage Press]] wins Pulitzer Award.  
File:Vandal Savage Field Report Small Boy.jpg|link=Vandal Savage (nonfiction)|1963: ''Field Report Number One'' by [[Vandal Savage (nonfiction)|Vandal Savage Press]] wins Pulitzer Award.  


||1971 – Vikram Sarabhai, Indian physicist and academic (b. 1919) father Indian space program
||1965: Statistician and academic Evelyn Fix dies ... She and Joseph Hodges, Jr. will publish a groundbreaking paper, "Discriminatory Analysis. Nonparametric Discrimination: Consistency Properties," which defines the nearest neighbor rule, an important method which will later become a key piece of machine learning technologies, the k-Nearest Neighbor (k-NN) algorithm.  Pic: https://statistics.berkeley.edu/history/biographies/evelyn-fix


||Philip Hall FRS (b. 30 December 1982), was an English mathematician. His major work was on group theory, notably on finite groups and solvable groups.
||1971: Vikram Sarabhai dies ... physicist and academic ... father Indian space program


||1993 – Giuseppe Occhialini, Italian-French physicist and academic (b. 1907)
||1982: Philip Hall dies ... mathematician. His major work was on group theory, notably on finite groups and solvable groups.


||1994 – Dmitri Ivanenko, Ukrainian-Russian physicist and academic (b. 1904)
||1993: Giuseppe Occhialini dies ... physicist and academic.


||2011 – Ronald Searle, English-French cartoonist (b. 1920)
||1994: Dmitri Ivanenko dies ... physicist and academic.


||2012 – Rita Levi-Montalcini, Italian neurologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1909)
||2011: Ronald Searle dies ... cartoonist.


||2012 – Carl Woese, American microbiologist and biophysicist (b. 1928)
||2012: Rita Levi-Montalcini dies ... neurologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate.
 
||2012: Carl Woese dies ... microbiologist and biophysicist.


File:Paul Sally 2008.jpg|link=Paul Sally (nonfiction)|2013: Mathematician and academic [[Paul Sally (nonfiction)|Paul Sally]] dies. He was known as "a legendary math professor at the University of Chicago".
File:Paul Sally 2008.jpg|link=Paul Sally (nonfiction)|2013: Mathematician and academic [[Paul Sally (nonfiction)|Paul Sally]] dies. He was known as "a legendary math professor at the University of Chicago".


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  • 1842: Osman Hamdi Bey born. He will be an administrator, intellectual, art expert, painter, and archaeologist.

    1842: Osman Hamdi Bey born. He will be an administrator, intellectual, art expert, painter, and archaeologist.

  • 1916: Mystic and faith healer Grigori Rasputin dies.

    1916: Mystic and faith healer Grigori Rasputin dies.

  • 1947: Mathematician and philosopher Alfred North Whitehead dies. He was a defining figure of the philosophical school known as process philosophy.

    1947: Mathematician and philosopher Alfred North Whitehead dies. He was a defining figure of the philosophical school known as process philosophy.

  • 1947: Painter and forger Han van Meegeren dies. He was one of the most ingenious art forgers of the 20th century.

    1947: Painter and forger Han van Meegeren dies. He was one of the most ingenious art forgers of the 20th century.

  • 1954: Tunguska Event Preservation Society pledge drive day.

    1954: Tunguska Event Preservation Society pledge drive day.

  • 1963: Field Report Number One by Vandal Savage Press wins Pulitzer Award.

    1963: Field Report Number One by Vandal Savage Press wins Pulitzer Award.

  • 2013: Mathematician and academic Paul Sally dies. He was known as "a legendary math professor at the University of Chicago".

    2013: Mathematician and academic Paul Sally dies. He was known as "a legendary math professor at the University of Chicago".

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