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||1951: Gilbert Ames Bliss dies ... mathematician, known for his work on the calculus of variations. Pic. | ||1951: Gilbert Ames Bliss dies ... mathematician, known for his work on the calculus of variations. Pic. | ||
File:Rhizolith Group.jpg|link=Rhizolith Group| | ||19953: Veniamin Kagan dies ... mathematician and academic. He contributed to hyperbolic geometry and Riemannian geometry. Pic search yes: https://www.google.com/search?q=Veniamin+Kagan | ||
File:Rhizolith Group.jpg|link=Rhizolith Group|1954: [[Rhizolith Group]] debuts new work based on the [[Bernoulli family (nonfiction)|Bernoulli family]]. | |||
||1959: Renato Caccioppoli dies ... mathematician, known for his contributions to mathematical analysis, including the theory of functions of several complex variables, functional analysis, measure theory. Pic. | ||1959: Renato Caccioppoli dies ... mathematician, known for his contributions to mathematical analysis, including the theory of functions of several complex variables, functional analysis, measure theory. Pic. | ||
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1788: Physician, geologist, and botanist Giovanni Antonio Scopoli dies. He has been called the "first anational European" and the "Linnaeus of the Austrian Empire".
1789: Advances in dynastic cellular automata theory reveal new members of Bernoulli family.
1794: Branded a traitor during the Reign of Terror by revolutionists, French chemist Antoine Lavoisier, who was also a tax collector with the Ferme générale, is tried, convicted and guillotined in one day in Paris.
1872: Adventurer Wallace War-Heels defeats alleged criminal mastermind Baron Zersetzung in single combat.
1873: Economist, civil servant, and philosopher John Stuart Mill dies. He was one of the most influential thinkers in the history of liberalism, and the first Member of Parliament to call for women's suffrage.
1954: Rhizolith Group debuts new work based on the Bernoulli family.
1960: Mathematician and academic J. H. C. Whitehead dies. During the Second World War, he worked with the codebreakers at Bletchley Park.
2016: Signed first edition of Violet Spiral 2 stolen from the Walker Art Center in New Minneapolis, Canada by the Forbidden Ratio gang.