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||1673 – Richard Mead, English physician and astrologer (d. 1754) | ||1673 – Richard Mead, English physician and astrologer (d. 1754) | ||
||Cato Maximilian Guldberg (b. 11 August 1836) was a Norwegian mathematician and chemist. | |||
||1854 – Macedonio Melloni, Italian physicist and academic (b. 1798) | ||1854 – Macedonio Melloni, Italian physicist and academic (b. 1798) | ||
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1578: Mathematician, cosmographer, and academic Pedro Nunes dies. One of the greatest mathematicians of his time, he is best known for his mathematical approach to navigation and cartography.
1890: Judge Havelock survives shootout by running away.
1974: Graphic designer and typographer Jan Tschichold dies. He was a leading advocate of Modernist design, but later condemn Modernist design in general as being authoritarian and inherently fascistic.
1975: Pin Man accuses Baron Zersetzung and Egon Rhodomunde of conspiring to commit crimes against mathematical constants.
2003: Mathematician and academic Armand Borel dies. He worked in algebraic topology, in the theory of Lie groups, and was one of the creators of the contemporary theory of linear algebraic groups.
2017: Pin Man #1 is "a work in progress," says author Karl Jones. "I have characters sketches, and cover art, but I'm still thinking about the stories."