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||1932 – Ed Roth, American illustrator (d. 2001) | ||1932 – Ed Roth, American illustrator (d. 2001) | ||
||1934 – Janez Strnad, Slovenian physicist and academic (d. 2015) | ||1934 – Janez Strnad, Slovenian physicist and academic (d. 2015) Janez Strnad (March 4, 1934 – November 28, 2015) was a Slovene physicist and popularizer of natural science. | ||
||1935 – Bent Larsen, Danish chess player and author (d. 2010) | ||1935 – Bent Larsen, Danish chess player and author (d. 2010) | ||
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928: Astronomer Abd al-Rahman al-Sufi uses Gnomon algorithm to solve crimes against mathematical constants.
1702: Thief Jack Sheppard born. He will be arrested and imprisoned five times in 1724 but escape four times from prison, making him a notorious public figure, and wildly popular with the poorer classes.
1881: Physicist and chemist Richard C. Tolman born. He will make important contributions to theoretical cosmology in the years soon after Einstein's discovery of general relativity.
1931: US Navy says Carnivorous dirigibles cannot be tamed, should be put down.
2008: Game designer Gary Gygax dies. He co-created the pioneering role-playing game Dungeons & Dragons (D&D) with Dave Arneson.
2016: Cantor Parabola and Gnotilus at Athens hailed as "a triumph of art and crime-fighting."