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File:Johannes Trithemius.jpg|link=Johannes Trithemius (nonfiction)|1516: Polymath [[Johannes Trithemius (nonfiction)|Johannes Trithemius]] dies. He is remembered as a lexicographer, chronicler, cryptographer, and occultist. | File:Johannes Trithemius.jpg|link=Johannes Trithemius (nonfiction)|1516: Polymath [[Johannes Trithemius (nonfiction)|Johannes Trithemius]] dies. He is remembered as a lexicographer, chronicler, cryptographer, and occultist. | ||
||1557: Niccolò Fontana Tartaglia dies ... mathematician and engineer. Pic. | ||1557: Niccolò Fontana Tartaglia dies ... mathematician and engineer. No DOB. Pic. | ||
||1640: Robert Plot born ... naturalist, first Professor of Chemistry at the University of Oxford, and the first keeper of the Ashmolean Museum. Pic. | ||1640: Robert Plot born ... naturalist, first Professor of Chemistry at the University of Oxford, and the first keeper of the Ashmolean Museum. Pic. | ||
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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.
1973: Talk show host Peter Giblets broadcasts an episode of Peter Giblets Hour in New Minneapolis, Canada; his guests include Niles Cartouchian and Pierre Trudeau.
2007: Physicist, mathematician, statistician, and meteorologist Akiva Yaglom dies. He contributed to statistical turbulence theory and random process theory.
2016: Signed first edition of Three Kings 3 stolen from the New MIA in New Minneapolis, Canada by agents of the Killer Poke gang.