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||1654 – Ole Worm, Danish physician and historian (b. 1588)
||1663 – Guillaume Amontons, French physicist and instrument maker (d. 1705)
||1821 – Hermann von Helmholtz, German physician and physicist (d. 1894)
||1870 – Maria Montessori, Italian physician and educator (d. 1952)
||1895 – German Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin patents his navigable balloon.
||1897 – Thomas Edison patents the Kinetoscope, the first movie projector.
||1905 – Robert Bacher, American physicist and academic (d. 2004)
||1913 – Bernard Lovell, English physicist and astronomer (d. 2012)
||1920 – The first radio news program is broadcast by 8MK in Detroit.
||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.
||1944 – Roger Dean, English illustrator and publisher
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. He was one of the founders of modern functional analysis.
||1965 – E. E. Smith, American engineer and author (b. 1890)
File:Hello, world in C.svg|link="Hello World!" program (nonfiction)|1974: [["Hello World!" program (nonfiction)|"Hello World" computer program]] from 1974 warns about the coming of [[crimes against mathematical constants]].  
File:Hello, world in C.svg|link="Hello World!" program (nonfiction)|1974: [["Hello World!" program (nonfiction)|"Hello World" computer program]] from 1974 warns about the coming of [[crimes against mathematical constants]].  
||2005 – Joseph Rotblat, Polish-English physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1908)
||2006 – Edvard Munch's famous painting The Scream, stolen on August 22, 2004, is recovered in a raid by Norwegian police.
||2013 – Jan Camiel Willems, Belgian mathematician and theorist (b. 1939)
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