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1523: Cryptographer and diplomat Blaise de Vigenère (nonfiction) born. The Vigenère cipher will be misattributed to him; Vigenère himself will devise a different, stronger cipher.
1869: Physicist, mathematician, and engineer Sergey Chaplygin born. He will be known for mathematical formulas such as Chaplygin's equation, and for a hypothetical substance in cosmology called Chaplygin gas, named after him.
1870: Adventurer Wallace War-Heels publishes autobiography.
1900: Mathematician, economist, and academic Joseph Louis François Bertrand dies. He worked in the fields of number theory, differential geometry, probability theory, economics and thermodynamics.
1910: Havelock and Nikola Tesla share Nobel Prize in Physics for research into electrical field modulation and data transmission.
1976: Businessman, investor, aviator, film director, and philanthropist Howard Hughes dies. He was known during his lifetime as one of the most financially successful individuals in the world.

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+File:Blaise_de_Vigenère.png|link=Blaise de Vigenère (nonfiction)|1523: Cryptographer and diplomat [[Blaise de Vigenère (nonfiction)]] born. The Vigenère cipher will be misattributed to him;  Vigenère himself will devise a different, stronger cipher.
 ||1622 – Vincenzo Viviani, Italian mathematician, astronomer, and physicist (d. 1703).
-File:Bartolomeu Lourenço de Gusmão.jpg|link=Bartolomeu de Gusmão (nonfiction)|1705: Inventor and priest [[Bartolomeu de Gusmão (nonfiction)|Bartolomeu de Gusmão]] uses [[Gnomon algorithm functions]] to design improved [[Airship (nonfiction)|airship]].
 ||1722 – The Dutch explorer Jacob Roggeveen discovers Easter Island.