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||1941 – Walther Nernst, German chemist and physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1864) | ||1941 – Walther Nernst, German chemist and physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1864) | ||
||Jacob David Tamarkin (d. 18 November 1945) was a Russian-American mathematician best known for his work in mathematical analysis. | |||
||1956 – Jim Weirich, American computer scientist, developed Rake Software (d. 2014) | ||1956 – Jim Weirich, American computer scientist, developed Rake Software (d. 2014) | ||
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1724: Inventor and priest Bartolomeu de Gusmão dies.
1959: Mathematician and academic Aleksandr Khinchin dies. He was one of the founders of modern probability theory.
1962: Physicist and philosopher Niels Bohr born. He will make foundational contributions to understanding atomic structure and quantum theory, for which he will receive the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1922.
2017: Jekyll, the "fragrance for sociopaths", announces record sales.