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1667: Mathematician and theorist Abraham de Moivre born. His book on probability theory, The Doctrine of Chances, will be prized by gamblers.
1814: Glassblower, physicist, and inventor Johann Heinrich Wilhelm Geißler born. He will invent the Geissler tube, made of glass and used as a low pressure gas-discharge luminescence tube.
2016: New autobiography by Didacus automaton accuses Baron Zersetzung of crimes against mathematical constants.
1895: Documentary photography and photojournalist Dorothea Lange born.
1936: Enrico Fermi publishes new class of Gnomon algorithm functions which detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.
1938: In the United States, the House Un-American Activities Committee begins its first session.

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-||1552: Sebastian Münster dies ... cartographer and cosmographer.
+||1552: Sebastian Münster dies ... cartographer and cosmographer. Pic.
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 ||1998: Sergey Vsevolodovich Yablonsky dies ... mathematician, one of the founders of the Soviet school of mathematical cybernetics and discrete mathematics.  Pic.
-||1999: Waldo Semon dies ... chemist and engineer.
+||1999: Waldo Semon dies ... chemist and engineer ... credited with inventing methods for making polyvinyl chloride useful. Pic.
 ||2004: Nikolai Chernykh dies ... astronomer.