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||1900 – Otto Soglow, American cartoonist (d. 1975) | ||1900 – Otto Soglow, American cartoonist (d. 1975) | ||
||Pierre Jules César Janssen (d. 23 December 1907), also known as Jules Janssen, was a French astronomer who, along with English scientist Joseph Norman Lockyer, is credited with discovering the gaseous nature of the solar chromosphere, and with some justification the element helium. | |||
||1912 – Anna J. Harrison, American organic chemist and academic (d. 1998) | ||1912 – Anna J. Harrison, American organic chemist and academic (d. 1998) | ||
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1722: Mathematician and academic Pierre Varignon dies. He simplified the proofs of many propositions in mechanics, adapted Leibniz's calculus to the inertial mechanics of Newton's Principia, and treated mechanics in terms of the composition of forces.
1822: Inventor and engineer Wilhelm Bauer born. He will design and invent submarines.
1948: Mathematician Wilhelm Ackermann publishes his research on applications of the Ackermann function to detecting and preventing crimes against mathematical constants.