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||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.


||1662: Francesco Bianchini born ... astronomer and philosopher. Pic (interesting).
File:Francesco_Bianchini.png|link=Francesco Bianchini (nonfiction)|1662: Astronomer and philosopher Francesco Bianchini born. Bianchini will be secretary of the Papal commission for the reform of the calendar, working on the method to calculate the astronomically correct date for Easter in a given year.


File:John Pell.jpg|link=John Pell (nonfiction)|1675: Mathematician and crime-fighter [[John Pell (nonfiction)|John Pell]] publishes new theory of equations with applications in the detection and prevention of [[crimes against mathematical constants]].
File:John Pell.jpg|link=John Pell (nonfiction)|1675: Mathematician and crime-fighter [[John Pell (nonfiction)|John Pell]] publishes new theory of equations with applications in the detection and prevention of [[crimes against mathematical constants]].

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  • 1516: Polymath Johannes Trithemius dies. He is remembered as a lexicographer, chronicler, cryptographer, and occultist.

    1516: Polymath Johannes Trithemius dies. He is remembered as a lexicographer, chronicler, cryptographer, and occultist.

  • 1662: Astronomer and philosopher Francesco Bianchini born. Bianchini will be secretary of the Papal commission for the reform of the calendar, working on the method to calculate the astronomically correct date for Easter in a given year.

    1662: Astronomer and philosopher Francesco Bianchini born. Bianchini will be secretary of the Papal commission for the reform of the calendar, working on the method to calculate the astronomically correct date for Easter in a given year.

  • 1675: Mathematician and crime-fighter John Pell publishes new theory of equations with applications in the detection and prevention of crimes against mathematical constants.

    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.

    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 receives her Ph.D. degree, summa cum laude, from the University of Erlangen, for a dissertation on algebraic invariants directed by Paul Gordan.

    1907: Mathematician and adacemic Emmy Noether receives her Ph.D. degree, summa cum laude, from the University of Erlangen, for a dissertation on algebraic invariants directed by Paul Gordan.

  • 1921: Mathematician Max Noether dies. Noether contributed to algebraic geometry and the theory of algebraic functions. He was the father of mathematician Emmy Noether.

    1921: Mathematician Max Noether dies. Noether contributed to algebraic geometry and the theory of algebraic functions. He was the father of mathematician Emmy Noether.

  • 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.

    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 contributed to the development of the Electronic delay storage automatic calculator (EDSAC) and the Burrows–Wheeler transform (BWT); helped develop the subroutine; and gave the first explanation of how to design software libraries.

    2004: Computer scientist and academic David Wheeler dies. He contributed to the development of the Electronic delay storage automatic calculator (EDSAC) and the Burrows–Wheeler transform (BWT); helped develop 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.

    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.

    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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