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1792: Inventor, engineer, and businessman Richard Arkwright dies. Later in his life Arkwright was known as the "father of the modern industrial factory system."
1917: Mathematician and academic Ferdinand Georg Frobenius dies. He made contributions to the theory of elliptic functions, differential equations, and group theory.
1943: Physicist and educator Nikolay Basov uses Gnomon algorithm functions to fight crimes against mathematical constants.

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 File:Georg Frobenius.jpg|link=Ferdinand Georg Frobenius (nonfiction)|1917: Mathematician and academic [[Ferdinand Georg Frobenius (nonfiction)|Ferdinand Georg Frobenius]] dies. He made contributions to the theory of elliptic functions, differential equations, and group theory.
+||1918 – Sidney Gottlieb, American chemist and theorist (d. 1999)
+||1929 – Emile Berliner, German-American inventor and businessman, invented the phonograph (b. 1851)
 ||1936 – Jesse Owens wins the 100 metre dash, defeating Ralph Metcalfe, at the Berlin Olympics.
+||1942 – Richard Willstätter, German-Swiss chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1872)
 File:Nikolay Basov.jpg|link=Nikolay Basov (nonfiction)|1943: Physicist and educator [[Nikolay Basov (nonfiction)|Nikolay Basov]] uses [[Gnomon algorithm functions]] to fight [[crimes against mathematical constants]].