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File:William James Sidis 1914.jpg|link=William James Sidis (nonfiction)|1898: Mathematician and anthropologist [[William James Sidis (nonfiction)|William James Sidis]] born. He will become famous first for his precocity and later for his eccentricity and withdrawal from public life. | File:William James Sidis 1914.jpg|link=William James Sidis (nonfiction)|1898: Mathematician and anthropologist [[William James Sidis (nonfiction)|William James Sidis]] born. He will become famous first for his precocity and later for his eccentricity and withdrawal from public life. | ||
||Sophus Mads Jørgensen (d. 1 April 1914) was a Danish chemist. He is considered one of the founders of coordination chemistry. Pic. | |||
||1916 – Sheila May Edmonds, British mathematician (d. 2002) | ||1916 – Sheila May Edmonds, British mathematician (d. 2002) | ||
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1776: Mathematician, physicist, and philosopher Sophie Germain born. Her work on Fermat's Last Theorem will a foundation for mathematicians exploring the subject for hundreds of years after.
1890: Havelock survives shootout by shooting first.
1891: Inventor Herman Hollerith uses census data to locate Havelock.
1898: Mathematician and anthropologist William James Sidis born. He will become famous first for his precocity and later for his eccentricity and withdrawal from public life.
1933: Ready Kilowatt performs in off-Broadway adaption of Reddy Kilowatt Versus the Travelling Salesman Problem.
1973: Mathematician Robin Farquharson dies. He wrote an influential analysis of voting systems in his doctoral thesis, later published as Theory of Voting.