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File:Osman Hamdi Bey.jpg|link=|link=Osman Hamdi Bey (nonfiction)|1842: [[Osman Hamdi Bey (nonfiction)|Osman Hamdi Bey]] born. He will be an administrator, intellectual, art expert, painter, and archaeologist. | File:Osman Hamdi Bey.jpg|link=|link=Osman Hamdi Bey (nonfiction)|1842: [[Osman Hamdi Bey (nonfiction)|Osman Hamdi Bey]] born. He will be an administrator, intellectual, art expert, painter, and archaeologist. | ||
File:Pekka Myrberg.jpg|link=Pekka Myrberg (nonfiction)|1892: Mathematician [[Pekka Myrberg (nonfiction)|Pekka Myrberg]] born. He will do fundamental work on the iteration of rational functions (especially quadratic functions), developing the concept of period-doubling. Myrberg's research will revive interest in the results of Gaston Julia and Pierre Fatou. | |||
||1897: Stanisław Saks born ... mathematician and university tutor, a member of the Lwów School of Mathematics, known primarily for his membership in the Scottish Café circle, an extensive monograph on the theory of integrals, his works on measure theory and the Vitali–Hahn–Saks theorem. Pic: https://www.geni.com/people/Stanis%C5%82aw-Saks/6000000014876185057 | ||1897: Stanisław Saks born ... mathematician and university tutor, a member of the Lwów School of Mathematics, known primarily for his membership in the Scottish Café circle, an extensive monograph on the theory of integrals, his works on measure theory and the Vitali–Hahn–Saks theorem. Pic: https://www.geni.com/people/Stanis%C5%82aw-Saks/6000000014876185057 | ||
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||1934: John N. Bahcall born ... astrophysicist and astronomer ... best known for his contributions to the solar neutrino problem, the development of the Hubble Space Telescope, and for his leadership and development of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. | ||1934: John N. Bahcall born ... astrophysicist and astronomer ... best known for his contributions to the solar neutrino problem, the development of the Hubble Space Telescope, and for his leadership and development of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. | ||
|| | ||1938: Howell Peregrine born ... applied mathematician noted for his contributions to fluid mechanics, especially of free surface flows such as water waves, and coastal engineering. Pic. | ||
||1940: Childe Wills dies ... engineer ... automobile. | ||1940: Childe Wills dies ... engineer ... automobile. | ||
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1842: Osman Hamdi Bey born. He will be an administrator, intellectual, art expert, painter, and archaeologist.
1892: Mathematician Pekka Myrberg born. He will do fundamental work on the iteration of rational functions (especially quadratic functions), developing the concept of period-doubling. Myrberg's research will revive interest in the results of Gaston Julia and Pierre Fatou.
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: 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.
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".