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||1937: Albert Heim dies ... geologist, noted for his three-volume Geologie der Schweiz. Pic.
||1937: Albert Heim dies ... geologist, noted for his three-volume Geologie der Schweiz. Pic.
File:Haskell Brooks Curry.jpg|link=Haskell Curry (nonfiction)|1938: Mathematician and crimefighter [[Haskell Curry (nonfiction)|Haskell Curry]] discovers new class of [[Gnomon algorithm functions]] which detect and prevent [[crimes against mathematical constants|crimes against combinatorial mathematics]].


||1939: Nazi Germany mounts a false flag attack on the Gleiwitz radio station, creating an excuse to attack Poland the following day, thus starting World War II in Europe.
||1939: Nazi Germany mounts a false flag attack on the Gleiwitz radio station, creating an excuse to attack Poland the following day, thus starting World War II in Europe.
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||1944: Roger Dean born ... illustrator and publisher. (Alive August 2019.)
||1944: Roger Dean born ... illustrator and publisher. (Alive August 2019.)


File:Stefan Banach.jpg|link=Stefan Banach (nonfiction)|1945: Mathematician and academic [[Stefan Banach (nonfiction)|Stefan Banach]] dies. He was one of the founders of modern functional analysis.
File:Stefan Banach.jpg|link=Stefan Banach (nonfiction)|1945: Mathematician and academic [[Stefan Banach (nonfiction)|Stefan Banach]] dies. Banach was one of the founders of modern functional analysis.


||1949: André-Louis Debierne dies ... chemist and is considered the discoverer of the element actinium. In 1910, he and Marie Curie prepared radium in metallic form in visible amounts. Pic.
||1949: André-Louis Debierne dies ... chemist and is considered the discoverer of the element actinium. In 1910, he and Marie Curie prepared radium in metallic form in visible amounts. Pic.

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