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||1550 – Antonio Ferramolino, Italian architect and military engineer
||1550 – Antonio Ferramolino, Italian architect and military engineer


||1634 Urbain Grandier, accused and convicted of sorcery, is burned alive in Loudun, France.
File:Urbain Grandier.jpg|link=Urbain Grandier (nonfiction)|1634: [[Urbain Grandier (nonfiction)|Urbain Grandier]], accused and convicted of sorcery, is burned alive in Loudun, France. He was the victim of a politically motivated persecution led by the powerful Cardinal Richelieu.


||1685 – Brook Taylor, English mathematician and theorist (d. 1731)
||1685 – Brook Taylor, English mathematician and theorist (d. 1731)
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||1911 – Klara Dan von Neumann, Hungarian computer scientist and programmer (d. 1963)
||1911 – Klara Dan von Neumann, Hungarian computer scientist and programmer (d. 1963)
||2001 – David Peakall, English chemist and toxicologist (b. 1931) - DDT, thinning eggshells


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