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||1572: Girolamo Maggi dies ... polymath. No DOB.  Pic search dubious: https://www.google.com/search?q=Girolamo+Maggi
||1572: Girolamo Maggi dies ... polymath. No DOB.  Pic search dubious: https://www.google.com/search?q=Girolamo+Maggi


||1598: Theodor de Bry dies ... engraver, goldsmith, and publisher.
||1598: Theodor de Bry dies ... engraver, goldsmith, and publisher. No DOB. Pic.


||1809: Georges-Eugène Haussmann born ... engineer, urban planner, and politician.
||1809: Georges-Eugène Haussmann born ... engineer, urban planner, and politician. Pic.


||1824: Johann Wilhelm Hittorf born ... physicist who was born in Bonn and died in Münster, Germany. Hittorf was the first to compute the electricity-carrying capacity of charged atoms and molecules (ions), an important factor in understanding electrochemical reactions. He formulated ion transport numbers and the first method for their measurements.
||1824: Johann Wilhelm Hittorf born ... physicist who was born in Bonn and died in Münster, Germany. Hittorf was the first to compute the electricity-carrying capacity of charged atoms and molecules (ions), an important factor in understanding electrochemical reactions. He formulated ion transport numbers and the first method for their measurements.
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||1993: Italian former minister and Christian Democracy leader Giulio Andreotti is accused of mafia allegiance by the tribunal of Palermo.
||1993: Italian former minister and Christian Democracy leader Giulio Andreotti is accused of mafia allegiance by the tribunal of Palermo.
||2007: Paul Lauterbur dies ... chemist and biophysicist ... shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2003 with Peter Mansfield for his work which made the development of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) possible. Pic.


File:George Tooker.jpg|link=George Tooker (nonfiction)|2011: Artist [[George Tooker (nonfiction)|George Tooker]]  dies.  His paintings depicted his subjects naturally, as in a photograph, but the images used flat tones, an ambiguous perspective, and alarming juxtapositions to suggest an imagined or dreamed reality.
File:George Tooker.jpg|link=George Tooker (nonfiction)|2011: Artist [[George Tooker (nonfiction)|George Tooker]]  dies.  His paintings depicted his subjects naturally, as in a photograph, but the images used flat tones, an ambiguous perspective, and alarming juxtapositions to suggest an imagined or dreamed reality.

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