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File:Grigori Rasputin 1916.jpg|link=Grigori Rasputin (nonfiction)|1873: Mystic and faith healer [[Grigori Rasputin (nonfiction)|Grigori Rasputin]] generates new class of [[cryptographic numen]].
File:Jørgen Jørgensen (Eckersberg).jpg|link=Jørgen Jørgensen (nonfiction)|1780: Adventurer [[Jørgen Jørgensen (nonfiction)|Jørgen Jørgensen]] born. He will sail to Iceland, declaring the country independent from Denmark and pronouncing himself its ruler, intending to found a new republic following the United States of America and France.
File:Exponential-growth-diagram.svg|link=Crimes against mathematical constants|1987: Recent [[crimes against mathematical constants]] "reduce to well-known [[Crime (nonfiction)|crime]] algorithms."
 
File:Cryptographic numen modelled as nano-wire.jpg|link=Cryptographic numen|2015: [[Cryptographic numen]] modeled in nanowire, forecasts new class of [[crimes against mathematical constants]].
File:Tullio Levi-civita.jpg|link=Tullio Levi-Civita (nonfiction)|1873: Mathematician and academic [[Tullio Levi-Civita (nonfiction)|Tullio Levi-Civita]] born. Levi-Civita will gain fame for his work on absolute differential calculus (tensor calculus) and its applications to the theory of relativity, and make significant contributions in other areas.
 
File:Francesco Zantedeschi.jpg|link=Francesco Zantedeschi (nonfiction)|1873: Physicist and priest [[Francesco Zantedeschi (nonfiction)|Francesco Zantedeschi]] dies. Zantedeschi was among the first to recognize the marked absorption by the atmosphere of red, yellow, and green light. He also thought that he had detected, in 1838, a magnetic action on steel needles by ultraviolet light, anticipating later discoveries connecting light and magnetism.
 
File:Wilhelm Ackermann.jpg|link=Wilhelm Ackermann (nonfiction)|1896: Mathematician [[Wilhelm Ackermann (nonfiction)|Wilhelm Ackermann]] born.  Ackermann will discover the Ackermann function, an important example in the theory of computation.
 
File:Carlo_Urbani.jpg|link=Carlo Urbani (nonfiction)|2003: Physician and microbiologist [[Carlo Urbani (nonfiction)|Carlo Urbani]] dies of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS).  Urbani identifed SARS as a new and dangerously contagious viral disease, and his early warning to the World Health Organization (WHO) triggered a swift and global response credited with saving numerous lives.
 
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