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File:Bernoulli_wappen.png|link=Bernoulli family (nonfiction)|Advances in [[Cellular automaton (nonfiction)|dynastic cellular automata theory]] reveal new members of [[Bernoulli family (nonfiction)|Bernoulli family]].
File:Scopoli Giovanni Antonio.jpg|link=Giovanni Antonio Scopoli (nonfiction)|1788: Physician, geologist, and botanist [[Giovanni Antonio Scopoli (nonfiction)|Giovanni Antonio Scopoli]] dies. He has been called the "first anational European" and the "Linnaeus of the Austrian Empire".
File:Rhizolith Group.jpg|link=Rhizolith Group|[[Rhizolith Group]] debuts new work based on the [[Bernoulli family (nonfiction)|Bernoulli family]].
 
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File:Antoine Lavoisier.jpg|link=Antoine Lavoisier (nonfiction)|1794: Branded a traitor during the Reign of Terror by revolutionists, French chemist [[Antoine Lavoisier (nonfiction)|Antoine Lavoisier]], who was also a tax collector with the Ferme générale, is tried, convicted and guillotined in one day in Paris.
 
File:John Stuart Mill circa 1870.jpg|link=John Stuart Mill (nonfiction)|1873: Economist, civil servant, and philosopher [[John Stuart Mill (nonfiction)|John Stuart Mill]] dies. He was one of the most influential thinkers in the history of liberalism, and the first Member of Parliament to call for women's suffrage.
 
File:Renato Caccioppoli.jpg|link=Renato Caccioppoli (nonfiction)|1959: Mathematician [[Renato Caccioppoli (nonfiction)|Renato Caccioppoli]] takes his own life.  Caccioppoli contributed to mathematical analysis, including the theory of functions of several complex variables, functional analysis, and measure theory.


1859 – Johan Jensen, Danish mathematician and engineer (d. 1925)
File:Henry Whitehead.jpg|link=J. H. C. Whitehead (nonfiction)|1960: Mathematician and academic [[J. H. C. Whitehead (nonfiction)|J. H. C. Whitehead]] dies. During the Second World War, he worked with the codebreakers at Bletchley Park.


1960 – J. H. C. Whitehead, Indian-English mathematician and academic (b. 1904)
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1794 – Branded a traitor during the Reign of Terror by revolutionists, French chemist Antoine Lavoisier, who was also a tax collector with the Ferme générale, is tried, convicted and guillotined in one day in Paris.
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  • 1788: Physician, geologist, and botanist Giovanni Antonio Scopoli dies. He has been called the "first anational European" and the "Linnaeus of the Austrian Empire".

    1788: Physician, geologist, and botanist Giovanni Antonio Scopoli dies. He has been called the "first anational European" and the "Linnaeus of the Austrian Empire".

  • 1794: Branded a traitor during the Reign of Terror by revolutionists, French chemist Antoine Lavoisier, who was also a tax collector with the Ferme générale, is tried, convicted and guillotined in one day in Paris.

    1794: Branded a traitor during the Reign of Terror by revolutionists, French chemist Antoine Lavoisier, who was also a tax collector with the Ferme générale, is tried, convicted and guillotined in one day in Paris.

  • 1873: Economist, civil servant, and philosopher John Stuart Mill dies. He was one of the most influential thinkers in the history of liberalism, and the first Member of Parliament to call for women's suffrage.

    1873: Economist, civil servant, and philosopher John Stuart Mill dies. He was one of the most influential thinkers in the history of liberalism, and the first Member of Parliament to call for women's suffrage.

  • 1959: Mathematician Renato Caccioppoli takes his own life. Caccioppoli contributed to mathematical analysis, including the theory of functions of several complex variables, functional analysis, and measure theory.

    1959: Mathematician Renato Caccioppoli takes his own life. Caccioppoli contributed to mathematical analysis, including the theory of functions of several complex variables, functional analysis, and measure theory.

  • 1960: Mathematician and academic J. H. C. Whitehead dies. During the Second World War, he worked with the codebreakers at Bletchley Park.

    1960: Mathematician and academic J. H. C. Whitehead dies. During the Second World War, he worked with the codebreakers at Bletchley Park.

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