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File:Pál Turán.jpg|link=Pál Turán (nonfiction)|1976: Mathematician [[Pál Turán (nonfiction)|Pál Turán]] dies. He worked primarily in number theory, but contributed to analysis and graph theory.
File:Pál Turán.jpg|link=Pál Turán (nonfiction)|1976: Mathematician [[Pál Turán (nonfiction)|Pál Turán]] dies. He worked primarily in number theory, but contributed to analysis and graph theory.


||1978: Manne Siegbahn dies ... physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate.
||1978: Manne Siegbahn dies ... physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic.


||1983: Soviet nuclear false alarm incident: Military officer Stanislav Petrov identifies a report of an incoming nuclear missile as a computer error and not an American first strike.
||1983: Soviet nuclear false alarm incident: Military officer Stanislav Petrov identifies a report of an incoming nuclear missile as a computer error and not an American first strike.


||1990: Lothar Collatz dies ... mathematician.
||1990: Lothar Collatz dies ... mathematician. Pic.


||1996: Geoffrey Wilkinson dies ... chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate ... who pioneered inorganic chemistry and homogeneous transition metal catalysis. Pic.
||1996: Geoffrey Wilkinson dies ... chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate ... who pioneered inorganic chemistry and homogeneous transition metal catalysis. Pic.

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