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||1621: Ralph Agas dies ... surveyor and cartographer. No DOB. Pic: map.
||1621: Ralph Agas dies ... surveyor and cartographer. No DOB. Pic: map.


File:Jean-Jacques d'Ortous de Mairan.png|link=Jean-Jacques d'Ortous de Mairan (nonfiction)|1678: Geophysicist, astronomer, and biologist [[Jean-Jacques d'Ortous de Mairan (nonfiction)|Jean-Jacques d'Ortous de Mairan]] born. His observations and experiments will inspire the beginning of what will be known as the study of biological circadian rhythms.
File:Jean-Jacques d'Ortous de Mairan.png|link=Jean-Jacques d'Ortous de Mairan (nonfiction)|1678: Geophysicist, astronomer, and biologist [[Jean-Jacques d'Ortous de Mairan (nonfiction)|Jean-Jacques d'Ortous de Mairan]] born. His observations and experiments will inspire the beginning of what  
 
File:Abraham de Moivre.jpg|link=Abraham de Moivre (nonfiction)|1753: Mathematician and [[APTO]] theorist [[Abraham de Moivre (nonfiction)|Abraham de Moivre]] publishes new edition of his book on probability theory, ''The Doctrine of Chances'', with an addendum on applications of [[Gnomon algorithm functions]] to the psychology of [[crimes against mathematical constants]].


||1810: William George Armstrong born ... industrialist who founded the Armstrong Whitworth manufacturing concern on Tyneside. He was also an eminent scientist, inventor and philanthropist. In collaboration with the architect Richard Norman Shaw, he built Cragside in Northumberland, the first house in the world to be lit by hydroelectricity. He is regarded as the inventor of modern artillery. Pic.
||1810: William George Armstrong born ... industrialist who founded the Armstrong Whitworth manufacturing concern on Tyneside. He was also an eminent scientist, inventor and philanthropist. In collaboration with the architect Richard Norman Shaw, he built Cragside in Northumberland, the first house in the world to be lit by hydroelectricity. He is regarded as the inventor of modern artillery. Pic.
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File:Rear Admiral Deak Parsons.jpg|link=William Sterling Parsons (nonfiction)|1901: [[William Sterling Parsons (nonfiction)|American naval officer William Sterling "Deak" Parsons]] born. Parsons will serve as an ordnance expert on the Manhattan Project during World War II.
File:Rear Admiral Deak Parsons.jpg|link=William Sterling Parsons (nonfiction)|1901: [[William Sterling Parsons (nonfiction)|American naval officer William Sterling "Deak" Parsons]] born. Parsons will serve as an ordnance expert on the Manhattan Project during World War II.


||1918: Francis Harry Hinsley born ... historian and cryptanalyst. He worked at Bletchley Park during the Second World War and wrote widely on the history of international relations and British Intelligence during the Second World War. Pic.
File:Harry Hinsley.jpg|link=Harry Hinsley (nonfiction)|1918: Historian and cryptanalyst [[Harry Hinsley (nonfiction)|Francis Harry Hinsley]] born. Hinsley will work at Bletchley Park during the Second World War, and write widely on the history of international relations and British Intelligence during the war.


||1922: Howard Carter and Lord Carnarvon become the first people to enter the tomb of Pharaoh Tutankhamun in over 3000 years.
||1922: Howard Carter and Lord Carnarvon become the first people to enter the tomb of Pharaoh Tutankhamun in over 3000 years.

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