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File:François Ravaillac.jpg|link=François Ravaillac (nonfiction)|1610: Factotum and regicide [[François Ravaillac (nonfiction)|François Ravaillac]] executed.
File:François Ravaillac.jpg|link=François Ravaillac (nonfiction)|1610: Factotum and regicide [[François Ravaillac (nonfiction)|François Ravaillac]] executed.
||Arvid Gerhard Damm (b. 27 May 1869) was a Swedish engineer and inventor. He designed a number of cipher machines, and was one of the early inventors of the wired rotor principle for machine encipherment. His company, AB Cryptograph, was a predecessor of Crypto AG.


File:John Douglas Cockcroft 1961.jpg|link=John Cockcroft (nonfiction)|1897: Physicist, academic, and Nobel Prize laureate [[John Cockcroft (nonfiction)|John Cockcroft]] born. He will be instrumental in the development of nuclear power.
File:John Douglas Cockcroft 1961.jpg|link=John Cockcroft (nonfiction)|1897: Physicist, academic, and Nobel Prize laureate [[John Cockcroft (nonfiction)|John Cockcroft]] born. He will be instrumental in the development of nuclear power.

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