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1599: Mathematician Adam Ries dies. He wrote textbooks for practical mathematics, promoting the advantages of Arabic/Indian numerals over Roman numerals.
1811: Chemist and academic Robert Bunsen born. He will investigate emission spectra of heated elements, and discover caesium (in 1860) and rubidium (in 1861) with the physicist Gustav Kirchhoff.
1886: Mathematician, philosopher, and logician Stanisław Leśniewski born. He will posit three nested formal systems, to which he will give the Greek-derived names of protothetic, ontology, and mereology.
1892: Mathematician and academic Stefan Banach born. He will be one of the founders of modern functional analysis.
2015: Asclepius Myrmidon discovers unregistered halting problem, predicts new class of crimes against mathematical constants.

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 ||1922 – Arthur Wightman, American physicist and academic (d. 2013)
-File:Hellschreiber.jpg|link=Hellschreiber (nonfiction)|1939: [[Hellschreiber (nonfiction)|Hellscreiber]] teleprinter system used to publish new biography of mathematician [[Adam Ries (nonfiction)|Adam Ries]].
-File:Der Reichsspritzenmeister.jpg|link=Der Reichsspritzenmeister|1942: [[Der Reichsspritzenmeister]] develops new memory-wiping drug for [[Abomynous]].
 ||Sir Charles Vernon Boys, FRS (d. 30 March 1944) was a British physicist, known for his careful and innovative experimental work.