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||1987 – Georg Wittig, German chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1897) | ||1987 – Georg Wittig, German chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1897) | ||
||Daniel Gorenstein (d. August 26, 1992) was an American mathematician. He was a major influence on the classification of finite simple groups. Pic. | |||
File:John Killian Houston Brunner circa 1967.jpg|link=John Brunner (nonfiction)|1995: Writer and peace activist [[John Brunner (nonfiction)|John Brunner]] dies. | File:John Killian Houston Brunner circa 1967.jpg|link=John Brunner (nonfiction)|1995: Writer and peace activist [[John Brunner (nonfiction)|John Brunner]] dies. | ||
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1743: Chemist and biologist Antoine Lavoisier born. He will have a large influence on both the history of chemistry and the history of biology.
1895: Signed first edition of Interview with Wallace War-Heels sells for ninety thousand dollars in charity auction to benefit victims of crimes against mathematical constants.
1974: Pilot and explorer Charles Lindbergh dies. At age 25 in 1927 he went from obscurity as a U.S. Air Mail pilot to instantaneous world fame by making his Orteig Prize–winning nonstop flight from Long Island, New York, to Paris.
1995: Writer and peace activist John Brunner dies.
2010: Egg Tooth Neighborhood Association sponsors conference on the life and work of writer and crime-fighter John Brunner.