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File:Jost Bürgi.jpg|link=Jost Bürgi (nonfiction)|1632: Clockmaker and mathematician [[Jost Bürgi (nonfiction)|Jost Bürgi]] dies.  He was recognized during his own lifetime as one of the most excellent mechanical engineers of his generation.
File:Jost Bürgi.jpg|link=Jost Bürgi (nonfiction)|1632: Clockmaker and mathematician [[Jost Bürgi (nonfiction)|Jost Bürgi]] dies.  He was recognized during his own lifetime as one of the most excellent mechanical engineers of his generation.


File:Jeremiah Horrocks.jpg|link=Jeremiah Horrocks (nonfiction)|1638: Astronomer [[Jeremiah Horrocks (nonfiction)|Jeremiah Horrocks]] uses [[Gnomon algorithm functions]] to detect and prevent [[crimes against mathematical constants]].
File:Jeremiah Horrocks.jpg|link=Jeremiah Horrocks (nonfiction)|1638: Astronomer [[Jeremiah Horrocks (nonfiction)|Jeremiah Horrocks]] uses [[Gnomon algorithm functions]] to detect and prevent [[crimes against mathematical constants]].
||1729: Jacob Roggeveen dies ... explorer who was sent to find Terra Australis, but instead came across Easter Island (called Easter Island because he landed there on Easter Day). Jacob Roggeveen also encountered Bora Bora and Maupiti of the Society Islands and Samoa. Pic search yes: https://www.google.com/search?q=jacob+roggeveen


||1763: Astronomer and churchman John Mortimer Brinkley baptized. He will contribute to stellar astronomy, publishing his ''Elements of Plane Astronomy'' in 1808. Pic search: https://www.google.com/search?q=John+Brinkley+(astronomer)
||1763: Astronomer and churchman John Mortimer Brinkley baptized. He will contribute to stellar astronomy, publishing his ''Elements of Plane Astronomy'' in 1808. Pic search: https://www.google.com/search?q=John+Brinkley+(astronomer)
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File:M247 Sergeant York.png|link=M247 Sergeant York (nonfiction)|1982: [[M247 Sergeant York (nonfiction)|M247 has bad feeling about big presentation in February.]]
File:M247 Sergeant York.png|link=M247 Sergeant York (nonfiction)|1982: [[M247 Sergeant York (nonfiction)|M247 has bad feeling about big presentation in February.]]
||1990: Rashad Khalifa dies ... biochemist and academic.


File:Gil Kane.jpg|link=Gil Kane (nonfiction)|2001: American comic book artist [[Gil Kane (nonfiction)|Gil Kane]] dies.
File:Gil Kane.jpg|link=Gil Kane (nonfiction)|2001: American comic book artist [[Gil Kane (nonfiction)|Gil Kane]] dies.

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