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||1910 – Helmut Kallmeyer, German chemist and soldier (d. 2006) | ||1910 – Helmut Kallmeyer, German chemist and soldier (d. 2006) | ||
File:Richard Sharpe Shaver.jpg|link=Richard Sharpe Shaver (nonfiction)|1907: Author and illustrator [[Richard Sharpe Shaver (nonfiction)|Richard Sharpe Shaver]] born. He will write stories in which he claimed that he has had personal experience of a sinister, ancient civilization that harbors fantastic technology in caverns under the earth. | |||
||1917 – Rodney Robert Porter, English biochemist and physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1985) | ||1917 – Rodney Robert Porter, English biochemist and physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1985) | ||
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1907: Author and illustrator Richard Sharpe Shaver born. He will write stories in which he claimed that he has had personal experience of a sinister, ancient civilization that harbors fantastic technology in caverns under the earth.
1942: Physicist, mathematician, and engineer Sergey Chaplygin dies. He is known for mathematical formulas such as Chaplygin's equation, and for a hypothetical substance in cosmology called Chaplygin gas, named after him.
1985: Mathematician, cryptographer, and author Gordon Welchman dies. During the Second World War, he developed traffic analysis techniques for breaking German codes.