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File:Satyendra Nath Bose 1925.jpg|link=Satyendra Nath Bose (nonfiction)|1974: Physicist, mathematician, and academic [[Satyendra Nath Bose (nonfiction)|Satyendra Nath Bose]] dies. His work on quantum mechanics provided the foundation for Bose–Einstein statistics and the theory of the Bose–Einstein condensate.  
File:Satyendra Nath Bose 1925.jpg|link=Satyendra Nath Bose (nonfiction)|1974: Physicist, mathematician, and academic [[Satyendra Nath Bose (nonfiction)|Satyendra Nath Bose]] dies. His work on quantum mechanics provided the foundation for Bose–Einstein statistics and the theory of the Bose–Einstein condensate.  
||1984: Artist Patrick Nagel dies. He created popular illustrations on board, paper, and canvas, most of which emphasize the female form in a distinctive style descended from Art Deco. He is best known for his illustrations for Playboy magazine and the pop group Duran Duran, for whom he designed the cover of the best-selling album ''Rio''. Pic search: https://www.google.com/search?q=patrick+nagel


||1989: Morton Landers Curtis dies ... mathematician, an expert on group theory. Together with Gustav A. Hedlund and Roger Lyndon, he proved the Curtis–Hedlund–Lyndon theorem characterizing cellular automata as being defined by continuous equivariant functions on a shift space. Pic: search book cover.
||1989: Morton Landers Curtis dies ... mathematician, an expert on group theory. Together with Gustav A. Hedlund and Roger Lyndon, he proved the Curtis–Hedlund–Lyndon theorem characterizing cellular automata as being defined by continuous equivariant functions on a shift space. Pic: search book cover.

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