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||1715: Christian August Crusius born ... philosopher and theologian ... anti Liebniz. Pic. | ||1715: Christian August Crusius born ... philosopher and theologian ... anti Liebniz. Pic. | ||
||1745: Isaac Titsingh born ... surgeon, scholar, and diplomat. No DOB. Pic search | ||1745: Isaac Titsingh born ... surgeon, scholar, and diplomat. No DOB. Pic search. | ||
File:Thomas Paine.jpg|link=Thomas Paine (nonfiction)|1776: [[Thomas Paine (nonfiction)|Thomas Paine]] publishes his pamphlet ''Common Sense''. | File:Thomas Paine.jpg|link=Thomas Paine (nonfiction)|1776: [[Thomas Paine (nonfiction)|Thomas Paine]] publishes his pamphlet ''Common Sense''. | ||
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||1833: Adrien-Marie Legendre dies ... mathematician and theorist. Pic (striking caricature). | ||1833: Adrien-Marie Legendre dies ... mathematician and theorist. Pic (striking caricature). | ||
||1842: Luigi Pigorini born ... palaeontologist, archaeologist, and ethnographer. | ||1842: Luigi Pigorini born ... palaeontologist, archaeologist, and ethnographer. Pic. | ||
||1855: Ivan Simonov dies ... astronomer and a geodesist. Pic. | ||1855: Ivan Simonov dies ... astronomer and a geodesist. Pic. | ||
File:Samuel Colt.jpg|link=Samuel Colt (nonfiction)|1862: Engineer and businessman [[Samuel Colt (nonfiction)|Samuel Colt]] dies. He founded Colt's Manufacturing Company. | File:Samuel Colt.jpg|link=Samuel Colt (nonfiction)|1862: Engineer and businessman [[Samuel Colt (nonfiction)|Samuel Colt]] dies. He founded Colt's Manufacturing Company. | ||
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||1927: Fritz Lang's futuristic film ''Metropolis'' is released in Germany. | ||1927: Fritz Lang's futuristic film ''Metropolis'' is released in Germany. | ||
File:Donald Knuth.jpg|link=Donald Knuth (nonfiction)|1938: Computer scientist and mathematician [[Donald Knuth (nonfiction)|Donald Knuth]] born. | File:Donald Knuth.jpg|link=Donald Knuth (nonfiction)|1938: Computer scientist and mathematician [[Donald Knuth (nonfiction)|Donald Knuth]] born. Knuth will contribute to the development of rigorous, systematic analysis of the computational complexity of algorithms. | ||
||1941: Issai Schur dies ... mathematician and academic. Pic. | ||1941: Issai Schur dies ... mathematician and academic. Pic. | ||
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||1951: Yoshio Nishina dies ... physicist and academic. Pic (cool tech). | ||1951: Yoshio Nishina dies ... physicist and academic. Pic (cool tech). | ||
||1961: Dashiell Hammett dies ... detective novelist and screenwriter. | ||1961: Dashiell Hammett dies ... detective novelist and screenwriter. | ||
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||1996: Louis W. Tordella dies ... the longest serving deputy director of the National Security Agency. Pic. | ||1996: Louis W. Tordella dies ... the longest serving deputy director of the National Security Agency. Pic. | ||
||1997: Alexander R. Todd dies ... biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. | ||1997: Alexander R. Todd dies ... biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic. | ||
||2010: Henry Berge Helson dies ... mathematician at the University of California at Berkeley who worked on analysis. Pic. | ||2010: Henry Berge Helson dies ... mathematician at the University of California at Berkeley who worked on analysis. Pic. | ||
||2010: | ||2010: Metallurgist, educator and administrator Patcha Ramachandra Tao born. Pic. | ||
||2010: Oscar Sala dies ... nuclear physicist and academic. He will be a leading figure in Brazilian scientific research. Pic search tech | ||2010: Oscar Sala dies ... nuclear physicist and academic. He will be a leading figure in Brazilian scientific research. Pic search tech. | ||
||2012: Gevork Vartanian dies... Russian intelligence agent. He was primarily responsible for thwarting Operation Long Jump, concocted by Adolf Hitler, headed by Ernst Kaltenbrunner, and led by Otto Skorzeny, which was an attempt to assassinate Stalin, Churchill, and Roosevelt at the Tehran conference in 1943. Pic. | ||2012: Gevork Vartanian dies... Russian intelligence agent. He was primarily responsible for thwarting Operation Long Jump, concocted by Adolf Hitler, headed by Ernst Kaltenbrunner, and led by Otto Skorzeny, which was an attempt to assassinate Stalin, Churchill, and Roosevelt at the Tehran conference in 1943. Pic. | ||
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Latest revision as of 17:58, 7 February 2022
1776: Thomas Paine publishes his pamphlet Common Sense.
1778: Botanist, physician, and zoologist Carl Linnaeus dies. He formalized the binomial nomenclature system of taxonomy.
1862: Engineer and businessman Samuel Colt dies. He founded Colt's Manufacturing Company.
1938: Computer scientist and mathematician Donald Knuth born. Knuth will contribute to the development of rigorous, systematic analysis of the computational complexity of algorithms.
1946: The United States Army Signal Corps successfully conducts Project Diana, bouncing radio waves off the Moon and receiving the reflected signals.