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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.
1907: Mathematician and adacemic Emmy Noether received her Ph.D. degree, summa cum laude, from the University of Erlangen, for a dissertation on algebraic invariants directed by Paul Gordan.
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.
2004: Computer scientist and academic David Wheeler dies. He will contribute to the development of the Electronic delay storage automatic calculator (EDSAC) and the Burrows–Wheeler transform (BWT). Wheeler also helped developed the subroutine, and gave the first explanation of how to design software libraries.
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.

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 ||1997: Alexander Oppenheim born ... mathematician. In mathematics, his most notable contribution is his Oppenheim conjecture. Pic: http://www-history.mcs.st-and.ac.uk/Biographies/Oppenheim.html
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+File:David Wheeler.jpg|link=David Wheeler (nonfiction)|2004: Computer scientist and academic [[David Wheeler (nonfiction)|David Wheeler]] dies. He will contribute to the development of the Electronic delay storage automatic calculator (EDSAC) and the Burrows–Wheeler transform (BWT).  Wheeler also helped developed the subroutine, and gave the first explanation of how to design software libraries.
 File:Akiva Yaglom.jpg|link=Akiva Yaglom (nonfiction)|2007: Physicist, mathematician, statistician, and meteorologist [[Akiva Yaglom (nonfiction)|Akiva Yaglom]] dies. He contributed to statistical turbulence theory and random process theory.