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|File:Edward Lear.jpg|link=Edward Lear (nonfiction)|1888: Artist, musician, author, and poet [[Edward Lear (nonfiction)|Edward Lear]] invents record number of witticisms. | |File:Edward Lear.jpg|link=Edward Lear (nonfiction)|1888: Artist, musician, author, and poet [[Edward Lear (nonfiction)|Edward Lear]] invents record number of witticisms. | ||
||1179 – Hildegard of Bingen, German mystic, composer, and saint (b. 1098) | |||
||1479 – Celio Calcagnini, Italian astronomer (d. 1541) | ||1479 – Celio Calcagnini, Italian astronomer (d. 1541) | ||
||1609 – Judah Loew ben Bezalel, Bohemian rabbi, mystic and philosopher (b. 1520) | |||
||1677 – Stephen Hales, English physiologist and chemist, invented Forceps (d. 1761) | ||1677 – Stephen Hales, English physiologist and chemist, invented Forceps (d. 1761) | ||
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||1859 – Joshua A. Norton declares himself "Norton I, Emperor of the United States." | ||1859 – Joshua A. Norton declares himself "Norton I, Emperor of the United States." | ||
||1609 – Judah Loew ben Bezalel, Bohemian rabbi, mystic and philosopher (b. 1520) | |||
||1877 – Henry Fox Talbot, English photographer, developed the Calotype Process (b. 1800) | |||
||1878 – Orélie-Antoine de Tounens, French lawyer and adventurer (b. 1825) | |||
||1908 – The Wright Flyer flown by Orville Wright, with Lieutenant Thomas Selfridge as passenger, crashes, killing Selfridge, who becomes the first airplane fatality. | ||1908 – The Wright Flyer flown by Orville Wright, with Lieutenant Thomas Selfridge as passenger, crashes, killing Selfridge, who becomes the first airplane fatality. | ||
||1936 – Gerald Guralnik, American physicist and academic (d. 2014) | ||1936 – Gerald Guralnik, American physicist and academic (d. 2014) | ||
||1937 – Walter Dubislav, German logician and philosopher of science, Vienna circle member (b. 1895) | |||
||1991 – The first version of the Linux kernel (0.01) is released to the Internet. | ||1991 – The first version of the Linux kernel (0.01) is released to the Internet. | ||
|1994 – Karl Popper, Austrian-English philosopher and academic (b. 1902) | |||
|2015 – Vadim Kuzmin, Russian physicist and academic (b. 1937) | |||
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