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||1622 – Vincenzo Viviani, Italian mathematician, astronomer, and physicist (d. 1703).
||1622 – Vincenzo Viviani, Italian mathematician, astronomer, and physicist (d. 1703).
||William Brouncker, 2nd Viscount Brouncker (d. 5 April 1684) was an English mathematician who introduced Brouncker's formula, and was the first President of the Royal Society. Pic.


||1722 – The Dutch explorer Jacob Roggeveen discovers Easter Island.
||1722 – The Dutch explorer Jacob Roggeveen discovers Easter Island.

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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.

    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.

    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.

    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.

    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.

    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.

    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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