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||1903 – Melvin Purvis, American FBI agent (d. 1960) | ||1903 – Melvin Purvis, American FBI agent (d. 1960) | ||
||1906 – Alexander Gelfond, Russian mathematician and cryptographer (d. 1968) | ||1906 – Alexander Gelfond, Russian mathematician and cryptographer (d. 1968) | ||
||1908 – John Tuzo Wilson, Canadian geologist and geophysicist (d. 1993) | ||1908 – John Tuzo Wilson, Canadian geologist and geophysicist (d. 1993) | ||
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1601: Astronomer Tycho Brahe dies. He will make observations some five times more accurate than the best available observations at the time.
1602: Physicist, inventor, and crime-fighter Galileo Galilei uses Tycho Brahe's astronomical observations to detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.
1655: Mathematician, astronomer, philosopher, and priest Pierre Gassendi dies. He clashed with his contemporary Descartes on the possibility of certain knowledge.
2015: Steganographic analysis of Asclepius Myrmidon Spear Charge reveals two terabytes of encrypted data.