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File:François Ravaillac.jpg|link=François Ravaillac (nonfiction)|1610: Factotum and regicide [[François Ravaillac (nonfiction)|François Ravaillac]] executed. | File:François Ravaillac.jpg|link=François Ravaillac (nonfiction)|1610: Factotum and regicide [[François Ravaillac (nonfiction)|François Ravaillac]] executed. | ||
||1624: Diego Ramírez de Arellano dies ... sailor and cosmographer. | ||1624: Diego Ramírez de Arellano dies ... sailor and cosmographer. No DOB. Pic. | ||
||1660: Francis Hauksbee the Elder baptized ... scientist best known for his work on electricity and electrostatic repulsion. Pic: diagram. | ||1660: Francis Hauksbee the Elder baptized ... scientist best known for his work on electricity and electrostatic repulsion. Pic: diagram. | ||
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||1862: John Edward Campbell born ... a mathematician, best known for his contribution to the Baker-Campbell-Hausdorff formula. Pic. | ||1862: John Edward Campbell born ... a mathematician, best known for his contribution to the Baker-Campbell-Hausdorff formula. Pic. | ||
||1869: Arvid Gerhard Damm born ... engineer and inventor. He designed a number of cipher machines, and was one of the early inventors of the wired rotor principle for machine encipherment. His company, AB Cryptograph, was a predecessor of Crypto AG. | ||1869: Arvid Gerhard Damm born ... engineer and inventor. He designed a number of cipher machines, and was one of the early inventors of the wired rotor principle for machine encipherment. His company, AB Cryptograph, was a predecessor of Crypto AG. No DOD. Pic: device. | ||
||1875: Carl Axel Fredrik Benedicks born ... physicist whose work included geology, mineralogy, chemistry, physics, astronomy and mathematics. Pic. | ||1875: Carl Axel Fredrik Benedicks born ... physicist whose work included geology, mineralogy, chemistry, physics, astronomy and mathematics. Pic. | ||
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||1880: Alfred Swaine Taylor dies ... toxicologist and medical writer, who has been called the "father of British forensic medicine" He was also an early experimenter in photography. Pic. | ||1880: Alfred Swaine Taylor dies ... toxicologist and medical writer, who has been called the "father of British forensic medicine" He was also an early experimenter in photography. Pic. | ||
||1896: Aleksandr Stoletov dies ... physicist, engineer, and academic. | ||1896: Aleksandr Stoletov dies ... physicist, engineer, and academic. Pic. | ||
File:John Douglas Cockcroft 1961.jpg|link=John Cockcroft (nonfiction)|1897: Physicist, academic, and Nobel Prize laureate [[John Cockcroft (nonfiction)|John Cockcroft]] born. He will be instrumental in the development of nuclear power. | File:John Douglas Cockcroft 1961.jpg|link=John Cockcroft (nonfiction)|1897: Physicist, academic, and Nobel Prize laureate [[John Cockcroft (nonfiction)|John Cockcroft]] born. He will be instrumental in the development of nuclear power. | ||
||1898: David Crosthwait born ... engineer, inventor and writer. | ||1898: David Crosthwait born ... engineer, inventor and writer. Pic search yes: https://www.google.com/search?q=David+Crosthwait | ||
||1907: Herbert Karl Johannes Seifert born ... mathematician known for his work in topology. Pic. | ||1907: Herbert Karl Johannes Seifert born ... mathematician known for his work in topology. Pic. | ||
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1610: Factotum and regicide François Ravaillac executed.
1897: Physicist, academic, and Nobel Prize laureate John Cockcroft born. He will be instrumental in the development of nuclear power.
1931: Physicist and explorer Auguste Piccard and his assistant Paul Kipfer take off from Augsburg, Germany in their high-altitude balloon, reaching a record altitude of 15,781 m (51,775 ft). During the flight, Piccard gathers data on the upper atmosphere, including cosmic ray measurements.
1938: Mathematician and philosopher Edmund Husserl publishes new class of Gnomon algorithm functions based on transcendental consciousness as the limit of all possible knowledge.