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|File:Rhizolith Group.jpg|link=Rhizolith Group|1954: [[Rhizolith Group]] debuts new work based on the [[Bernoulli family (nonfiction)|Bernoulli family]]. | |File:Rhizolith Group.jpg|link=Rhizolith Group|1954: [[Rhizolith Group]] debuts new work based on the [[Bernoulli family (nonfiction)|Bernoulli family]]. | ||
||1959: | ||1959: MathemaRenato Caccioppoli dies from a self-inflicted gunshot. mathematician, known for his contributions to mathematical analysis, including the theory of functions of several complex variables, functional analysis, measure theory. Pic. | ||
File:Renato Caccioppoli.jpg|link=Renato Caccioppoli (nonfiction)|1959: Mathematician [[Renato Caccioppoli (nonfiction)|Renato Caccioppoli]] takes his own life. Caccioppoli contributed to mathematical analysis, including the theory of functions of several complex variables, functional analysis, and measure theory. | |||
File:Henry Whitehead.jpg|link=J. H. C. Whitehead (nonfiction)|1960: Mathematician and academic [[J. H. C. Whitehead (nonfiction)|J. H. C. Whitehead]] dies. During the Second World War, he worked with the codebreakers at Bletchley Park. | File:Henry Whitehead.jpg|link=J. H. C. Whitehead (nonfiction)|1960: Mathematician and academic [[J. H. C. Whitehead (nonfiction)|J. H. C. Whitehead]] dies. During the Second World War, he worked with the codebreakers at Bletchley Park. | ||
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1788: Physician, geologist, and botanist Giovanni Antonio Scopoli dies. He has been called the "first anational European" and the "Linnaeus of the Austrian Empire".
1794: Branded a traitor during the Reign of Terror by revolutionists, French chemist Antoine Lavoisier, who was also a tax collector with the Ferme générale, is tried, convicted and guillotined in one day in Paris.
1872: Adventurer Wallace War-Heels defeats alleged criminal mastermind Baron Zersetzung in single combat.
1873: Economist, civil servant, and philosopher John Stuart Mill dies. He was one of the most influential thinkers in the history of liberalism, and the first Member of Parliament to call for women's suffrage.
1959: Mathematician Renato Caccioppoli takes his own life. Caccioppoli contributed to mathematical analysis, including the theory of functions of several complex variables, functional analysis, and measure theory.
1960: Mathematician and academic J. H. C. Whitehead dies. During the Second World War, he worked with the codebreakers at Bletchley Park.
2016: Signed first edition of Violet Spiral 2 stolen from the Walker Art Center in New Minneapolis, Canada by the Forbidden Ratio gang.