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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 ok: https://www.google.com/search?q=Isaac+Titsingh
||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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||1855: Ivan Simonov dies ... astronomer and a geodesist. Pic.
||1855: Ivan Simonov dies ... astronomer and a geodesist. Pic.
File:USS Cairo.jpg|link=USS Cairo (nonfiction)|1861: [[USS Cairo (nonfiction)|USS Cairo]] retrofitted with military [[scrying engine]] device.


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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||1951: Yoshio Nishina dies ... physicist and academic. Pic (cool tech).
||1951: Yoshio Nishina dies ... physicist and academic. Pic (cool tech).
File:Chrome Plover early publicity photo.jpg|link=Chrome Plover|1960: [[Chrome Plover]], the famous [[musical electroplating ensemble]], announces world tour.


||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.
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||2010: Metallurgist, educator and administrator Patcha Ramachandra Tao born. Pic.
||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: https://www.google.com/search?q=Oscar+Sala
||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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