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File:Hasegawa Tohaku - Pine Trees (Shōrin-zu byōbu) - left hand screen.jpg|link=Hasegawa Tōhaku (nonfiction)|1610: Painter [[Hasegawa Tōhaku (nonfiction)|Hasegawa Tōhaku]] dies. Hasegawa Tōhaku founded the Hasegawa school and one of the great painters of the Azuchi–Momoyama period (1573-1603). He is best known for his ''byōbu'' folding screens, such as ''Pine Trees'' and ''Pine Tree and Flowering Plants''. | File:Hasegawa Tohaku - Pine Trees (Shōrin-zu byōbu) - left hand screen.jpg|link=Hasegawa Tōhaku (nonfiction)|1610: Painter [[Hasegawa Tōhaku (nonfiction)|Hasegawa Tōhaku]] dies. Hasegawa Tōhaku founded the Hasegawa school and one of the great painters of the Azuchi–Momoyama period (1573-1603). He is best known for his ''byōbu'' folding screens, such as ''Pine Trees'' and ''Pine Tree and Flowering Plants''. | ||
||1616: Johannes Fabricius dies ... astronomer and academic. Pic search book | ||1616: Johannes Fabricius dies ... astronomer and academic. Pic search book. | ||
||1685: René-François Walter de Sluse dies ... mathematician and churchman. The Conchoid of de Sluze is named after him. Pic. | ||1685: René-François Walter de Sluse dies ... mathematician and churchman. The Conchoid of de Sluze is named after him. Pic. | ||
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||1895: Auguste and Louis Lumière record their first footage using their newly patented cinematograph. Pic. | ||1895: Auguste and Louis Lumière record their first footage using their newly patented cinematograph. Pic. | ||
||1897: Joseph Darnand born ... soldier in the French and later German militaries, a leader of the Vichy French collaborators with Nazi Germany and a Waffen-SS officer. Pic. | |||
||1900: Frédéric Joliot-Curie born ... physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic. | ||1900: Frédéric Joliot-Curie born ... physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic. | ||
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||1996: Chen Jingrun dies ... mathematician who made significant contributions to number theory. Pic. | ||1996: Chen Jingrun dies ... mathematician who made significant contributions to number theory. Pic. | ||
||2003: Nancy Farley "Nan" Wood dies ... a member of the Manhattan Project and a business owner who designed, developed and manufactured her own line of ionizing radiation detectors. She was a lifelong feminist and a founding member of Chicago NOW. Pic search | ||2003: Nancy Farley "Nan" Wood dies ... a member of the Manhattan Project and a business owner who designed, developed and manufactured her own line of ionizing radiation detectors. She was a lifelong feminist and a founding member of Chicago NOW. Pic search. | ||
||2008: GRB 080319B: A cosmic burst that is the farthest object visible to the naked eye is briefly observed. | ||2008: GRB 080319B: A cosmic burst that is the farthest object visible to the naked eye is briefly observed. | ||
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Spinning_Thistle.jpg|link=Spinning Thistle (nonfiction)|2017: Steganographic analysis of ''[[Spinning Thistle (nonfiction)|Spinning Thistle]]'' accidentally releases the criminal mathematical function [[Gnotilus]]. | Spinning_Thistle.jpg|link=Spinning Thistle (nonfiction)|2017: Steganographic analysis of ''[[Spinning Thistle (nonfiction)|Spinning Thistle]]'' accidentally releases the criminal mathematical function [[Gnotilus]]. | ||
||2018: Jacobus "Koos" Verhoeff dies ... mathematician, computer scientist, and artist. He is known for his work on error detection and correction, and worked on information retrieval. He has also held exhibitions of his mathematically inspired sculptures. He was best known for his check-digit Verhoeff algorithm. Pic search | ||2018: Jacobus "Koos" Verhoeff dies ... mathematician, computer scientist, and artist. He is known for his work on error detection and correction, and worked on information retrieval. He has also held exhibitions of his mathematically inspired sculptures. He was best known for his check-digit Verhoeff algorithm. Pic search. | ||
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1610: Painter Hasegawa Tōhaku dies. Hasegawa Tōhaku founded the Hasegawa school and one of the great painters of the Azuchi–Momoyama period (1573-1603). He is best known for his byōbu folding screens, such as Pine Trees and Pine Tree and Flowering Plants.
1816: Physician and activist Filippo Mazzei dies. Mazzei acted as an arms purchasing agent for Virginia during the American Revolutionary War.
1928: Physicist and geophysicist Emil Wiechert dies. Wiechert made contributions to both fields, including presenting the first verifiable model of a layered structure of the Earth, and being among the first to discover the electron.
1978: Mathematician Gaston Maurice Julia dies. Julia devised the formula for the Julia set, which consists of values such that an arbitrarily small perturbation can cause drastic changes in the sequence of iterated function values. Julia's work later proved foundational to chaos theory.
1979: Accidental release of carnivorous dirigibles (Dirigible horribilis) results in outbreak of crimes against physical constants.
1987: Physicist and academic Louis de Broglie dies. De Broglie postulated the wave nature of electrons and suggested that all matter has wave properties. He won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1929, after the wave-like behavior of matter was first experimentally demonstrated in 1927.
2017: Steganographic analysis of Spinning Thistle accidentally releases the criminal mathematical function Gnotilus.