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||1984 – Louis Réard, French engineer and fashion designer, created the bikini (b. 1897) | ||1984 – Louis Réard, French engineer and fashion designer, created the bikini (b. 1897) | ||
||2005 | File:Gordon Gould.jpg|link=Gordon Gould (nonfiction)|2005: Physicist and academic [[Gordon Gould (nonfiction)|Gordon Gould]] dies. He invented and named the laser. | ||
||2016 – Gabriele Amorth, Italian priest and exorcist (b. 1925) | ||2016 – Gabriele Amorth, Italian priest and exorcist (b. 1925) | ||
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1736: Physicist and engineer Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit dies. He helped lay the foundations for the era of precision thermometry by inventing the mercury-in-glass thermometer and the Fahrenheit scale.
2005: Physicist and academic Gordon Gould dies. He invented and named the laser.