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||1940: Childe Wills dies ... engineer ... automobile. | ||1940: Childe Wills dies ... engineer ... automobile. | ||
||1941: Andrew Alexander Ranicki born ... mathematician who worked on algebraic topology. More: https://www.maths.ed.ac.uk/~v1ranick/surgery/bio.htm Pic. | |||
File:Alfred North Whitehead.jpg|link=Alfred North Whitehead (nonfiction)|1947: Mathematician and philosopher [[Alfred North Whitehead (nonfiction)|Alfred North Whitehead]] dies. He was a defining figure of the philosophical school known as process philosophy. | File:Alfred North Whitehead.jpg|link=Alfred North Whitehead (nonfiction)|1947: Mathematician and philosopher [[Alfred North Whitehead (nonfiction)|Alfred North Whitehead]] dies. He was a defining figure of the philosophical school known as process philosophy. | ||
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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. | ||
||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. | ||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 | ||
||1971: Vikram Sarabhai dies ... physicist and academic ... father Indian space program | ||1971: Vikram Sarabhai dies ... physicist and academic ... father Indian space program | ||
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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".