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File:Omar Khayyam.jpg|link=Omar Khayyam (nonfiction)|1122: [[Omar Khayyam (nonfiction)|Omar Khayyam]] invents new class of [[Gnomon algorithm]] equations. | |File:Omar Khayyam.jpg|link=Omar Khayyam (nonfiction)|1122: [[Omar Khayyam (nonfiction)|Omar Khayyam]] invents new class of [[Gnomon algorithm]] equations. | ||
||1644 – Jan Baptist van Helmont, Flemish chemist, physiologist, and physician (b. 1577) | |||
File:Vereinigte_Ostindische_Compagnie_bond.jpg|link=transdimensional corporation|1722: Bond, issued by Dutch East India Company in 1623, converted to [[transdimensional corporation]]. | File:Vereinigte_Ostindische_Compagnie_bond.jpg|link=transdimensional corporation|1722: Bond, issued by Dutch East India Company in 1623, converted to [[transdimensional corporation]]. | ||
File:Osman Hamdi Bey.jpg|link=|link=Osman Hamdi Bey (nonfiction)|1842: [[Osman Hamdi Bey (nonfiction)|Osman Hamdi Bey]] born. He will be an administrator, intellectual, art expert, painter, and archaeologist. | File:Osman Hamdi Bey.jpg|link=|link=Osman Hamdi Bey (nonfiction)|1842: [[Osman Hamdi Bey (nonfiction)|Osman Hamdi Bey]] born. He will be an administrator, intellectual, art expert, painter, and archaeologist. | ||
||1905 – Former Idaho Governor Frank Steunenberg is assassinated at the front gate of his home in Caldwell. | |||
File:Grigori Rasputin 1916.jpg|link=Grigori Rasputin (nonfiction)|1916: Mystic and faith healer [[Grigori Rasputin (nonfiction)|Grigori Rasputin]] dies. | File:Grigori Rasputin 1916.jpg|link=Grigori Rasputin (nonfiction)|1916: Mystic and faith healer [[Grigori Rasputin (nonfiction)|Grigori Rasputin]] dies. | ||
||1924 – Yvonne Brill, Canadian-American propulsion engineer (d. 2013) hydrazine resistojet | |||
||1934 – John N. Bahcall, American astrophysicist and astronomer, co-developed the Hubble Space Telescope (d. 2005) | |||
||1940 – Childe Wills, American engineer (b. 1878) automobile | |||
File:Alfred North Whitehead.jpg|link=Alfred North Whitehead (nonfiction)|1947: Mathematician and philosopher [[Alfred North Whitehead (nonfiction)|Alfred North Whitehead]] dies. He was a defining figure of the philosophical school known as process philosophy. | File:Alfred North Whitehead.jpg|link=Alfred North Whitehead (nonfiction)|1947: Mathematician and philosopher [[Alfred North Whitehead (nonfiction)|Alfred North Whitehead]] dies. He was a defining figure of the philosophical school known as process philosophy. | ||
File:Van meegeren trial.jpg|link=Han van Meegeren (nonfiction)|1889: Painter and forger [[Han van Meegeren (nonfiction)|Han van Meegeren]] born. He will be one of the most ingenious art forgers of the 20th century. | |||
File:Tunguska-Preservation-TV.jpg|link=Tunguska Event Preservation Society|1954: [[Tunguska Event Preservation Society]] pledge drive day. | File:Tunguska-Preservation-TV.jpg|link=Tunguska Event Preservation Society|1954: [[Tunguska Event Preservation Society]] pledge drive day. | ||
File:Vandal Savage Field Report Small Boy.jpg|link=Vandal Savage (nonfiction)|1963: ''Field Report Number One'' by [[Vandal Savage (nonfiction)|Vandal Savage Press]] wins Pulitzer Award. | File:Vandal Savage Field Report Small Boy.jpg|link=Vandal Savage (nonfiction)|1963: ''Field Report Number One'' by [[Vandal Savage (nonfiction)|Vandal Savage Press]] wins Pulitzer Award. | ||
||1971 – Vikram Sarabhai, Indian physicist and academic (b. 1919) father Indian space program | |||
||1993 – Giuseppe Occhialini, Italian-French physicist and academic (b. 1907) | |||
||1994 – Dmitri Ivanenko, Ukrainian-Russian physicist and academic (b. 1904) | |||
||2011 – Ronald Searle, English-French cartoonist (b. 1920) | |||
||2012 – Rita Levi-Montalcini, Italian neurologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1909) | |||
||2012 – Carl Woese, American microbiologist and biophysicist (b. 1928) | |||
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Revision as of 10:52, 3 September 2017
1722: Bond, issued by Dutch East India Company in 1623, converted to transdimensional corporation.
1842: Osman Hamdi Bey born. He will be an administrator, intellectual, art expert, painter, and archaeologist.
1916: Mystic and faith healer Grigori Rasputin dies.
1947: Mathematician and philosopher Alfred North Whitehead dies. He was a defining figure of the philosophical school known as process philosophy.
1889: Painter and forger Han van Meegeren born. He will be one of the most ingenious art forgers of the 20th century.
1954: Tunguska Event Preservation Society pledge drive day.
1963: Field Report Number One by Vandal Savage Press wins Pulitzer Award.