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||1825 – Thomas Bowdler, English physician and philanthropist (b. 1754) | ||1825 – Thomas Bowdler, English physician and philanthropist (b. 1754) | ||
||John Philip Holland (b. 24 February 1841) was an Irish engineer who developed the first submarine to be formally commissioned by the US Navy, and the first Royal Navy submarine, ''Holland 1''. Pic. | |||
||1848 – Andrew Inglis Clark, Australian engineer, lawyer, and politician (d. 1907) | ||1848 – Andrew Inglis Clark, Australian engineer, lawyer, and politician (d. 1907) | ||
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1588: Physician and occultist Johann Weyer dies. He was among the first to publish against the persecution of witches.
1810: Chemist, physicist, and philosopher Henry Cavendish dies. He discovered "inflammable air", later named hydrogen.
1842: Osman Hamdi Bey dies. He was an administrator, intellectual, art expert, painter, and archaeologist.
1967: Mathematician and crime-fighter Hugo Steinhaus uses the Banach–Steinhaus theorem to detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.
2001: Mathematician, engineer, and information scientist Claude Shannon dies.
1963: The Flying Diner announces twice-daily flights between Saint Paul, Minnesota, and New Minneapolis, Canada .