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1516: Polymath Johannes Trithemius dies. He is remembered as a lexicographer, chronicler, cryptographer, and occultist.
1675: Mathematician and crime-fighter John Pell publishes new theory of equations with applications in the detection and prevention of crimes against mathematical constants.
1887: Mathematician George Pólya born. He will make fundamental contributions to combinatorics, number theory, numerical analysis and probability theory.
2007: Physicist, mathematician, statistician, and meteorologist Akiva Yaglom dies. He contributed to the statistical theory of turbulence and theory of random processes.
2016: Signed first edition of Three Kings 3 stolen from the New MIA in New Minneapolis, Canada by agents of the Killer Poke gang.

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 ||2004: David Wheeler dies ... computer scientist and academic. Pic.
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+File:Akiva Yaglom.jpg|link=Akiva Yaglom (nonfiction)|2007: Physicist, mathematician, statistician, and meteorologist [[Akiva Yaglom (nonfiction)|Akiva Yaglom]] dies. He contributed to the statistical theory of turbulence and theory of random processes.
 ||File:Ridley-Scott-researching-Alien.jpg|link=Ridley Scott|2012: Documentary film-maker [[Ridley Scott]] meets his Kickstarter goal for new film named ''[[Alien (film) (nonfiction)|Alien]]''.