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||1927 – Gustave Whitehead, German-American pilot and engineer (b. 1874) | ||1927 – Gustave Whitehead, German-American pilot and engineer (b. 1874) | ||
||Elijah J. McCoy (d. 1929) was a Canadian-American inventor and engineer who was notable for his 57 U.S. patents, most having to do with the lubrication of steam engines. | |||
||1930 – Yves Chauvin, French chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2015) | ||1930 – Yves Chauvin, French chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2015) | ||
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1708: Mathematician and astronomer David Gregory dies. At the Union of 1707, he was given the responsibility of reorganizing the Scottish Mint.
1730: Physicist and crime-fighter Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit uses precision thermometry to detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.
1731: Chemist, physicist, and philosopher Henry Cavendish born. He will discover "inflammable air", later named hydrogen.
1888: Steganographic analysis of Alice Beta and Niles Cartouchian Play Chess reveals two terabytes of encrypted data.
1889: Painter and forger Han van Meegeren born. He will be one of the most ingenious art forgers of the 20th century.
1943: Mathematician and soldier Janet Beta accepts commission with secret military-intelligence program ENIAC.
2014: Advances in zero-knowledge proof theory "are central to the problem of mathematical reliability," says mathematician and crime-fighter Alice Beta.