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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. | ||
File:Two Men Who Fell to Earth.jpg|link=Two Men Who Fell to Earth|1983: Premiere of '''''[[Two Men Who Fell to Earth]]''''', a 1983 British-American film about two men (Dan Aykroyd, Albert Brooks) who wake up feeling strangely relaxed. Are they living the good life, California style? Or are they puppets of an alien rock star? Directed by David Bowie. | |||
||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 | ||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 | ||
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1615: Polymath Giambattista della Porta dies. Della Porta's most famous work, Magiae Naturalis (1558), covers a variety of the subjects he had investigated, including occult philosophy, astrology, alchemy, mathematics, meteorology, and natural philosophy.
1774: Mathematician and geographer Charles Marie de La Condamine dies. He spent ten years in present-day Ecuador measuring the length of a degree latitude at the equator and preparing the first map of the Amazon region based on astronomical observations.
1902: Pilot and explorer Charles Lindbergh born. At age 25 in 1927 he will go from obscurity as a U.S. Air Mail pilot to instantaneous world fame by making his Orteig Prize–winning nonstop flight from Long Island, New York, to Paris.
1906: Astronomer and academic Clyde Tombaugh born. He will discover Pluto, along with many asteroids.
1928: Physicist and academic Hendrik Lorentz dies. He shared the 1902 Nobel Prize in Physics with Pieter Zeeman for the discovery and theoretical explanation of the Zeeman effect.
1974: Physicist, mathematician, and academic Satyendra Nath Bose dies. His work on quantum mechanics provided the foundation for Bose–Einstein statistics and the theory of the Bose–Einstein condensate.
1983: Premiere of Two Men Who Fell to Earth, a 1983 British-American film about two men (Dan Aykroyd, Albert Brooks) who wake up feeling strangely relaxed. Are they living the good life, California style? Or are they puppets of an alien rock star? Directed by David Bowie.