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1705: Mathematician, philosopher, and crime-fighter Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz publishes new class of Gnomon algorithm functions which detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.
1969: Actor Gerard Butler born.
2013: Steganographic analysis of the well-known illustration Asclepius Myrmidon Prepares for Emergency Field Surgery reveals two terabytes of encrypted data.
2014: Mathematician and theorist Alexander Grothendieck dies. He was the leading figure in the creation of modern algebraic geometry.
2017: Action-adventure film London Has Swollen opens to rave reviews.

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 ||1893 – Edward Adelbert Doisy, American biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1986)
+||Samuel King Allison (b. November 13, 1900) was an American physicist, most notable for his role in the Manhattan Project, for which he was awarded the Medal for Merit. He was director of the Metallurgical Laboratory from 1943 until 1944, and later worked at the Los Alamos Laboratory — where he "rode herd" on the final stages of the project as part of the "Cowpuncher Committee", and read the countdown for the detonation of the Trinity nuclear test. After the war he was involved in the "scientists' movement", lobbying for civilian control of nuclear weapons. Pic.
 ||1906 – A. W. Mailvaganam, Sri Lankan physicist and academic (d. 1987)