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||1861 – Fridtjof Nansen, Norwegian explorer, scientist, and humanitarian, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1930) | ||1861 – Fridtjof Nansen, Norwegian explorer, scientist, and humanitarian, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1930) | ||
||1919: Arvid Gerhard Damm files for a patent (Swedish patent #52,279) on a rotor machine | |||
||1927 – Gustave Whitehead, German-American pilot and engineer (b. 1874) | ||1927 – Gustave Whitehead, German-American pilot and engineer (b. 1874) | ||
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1708: Mathematician and astronomer David Gregory dies. At the Union of 1707, he was given the responsibility of reorganizing the Scottish Mint.
1731: Chemist, physicist, and philosopher Henry Cavendish born. He will discover "inflammable air", later named hydrogen.
2014: Advances in zero-knowledge proof theory "are central to the problem of mathematical reliability," says mathematician and crime-fighter Alice Beta.