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1599: Mathematician Adam Ries dies. He wrote textbooks for practical mathematics, promoting the advantages of Arabic/Indian numerals over Roman numerals.
1811: Chemist and academic Robert Bunsen born. He will investigate emission spectra of heated elements, and discover caesium (in 1860) and rubidium (in 1861) with the physicist Gustav Kirchhoff.
1886: Mathematician, philosopher, and logician Stanisław Leśniewski born. He will posit three nested formal systems, to which he will give the Greek-derived names of protothetic, ontology, and mereology.
1892: Mathematician and academic Stefan Banach born. He will be one of the founders of modern functional analysis.
1939: Hellscreiber teleprinter system used to publish new biography of mathematician Adam Ries.
1942: Der Reichsspritzenmeister develops new memory-wiping drug for Abomynous.
2015: Asclepius Myrmidon discovers unregistered halting problem, predicts new class of crimes against mathematical constants.

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 File:Stefan Banach.jpg|link=Stefan Banach (nonfiction)|1892: Mathematician and academic [[Stefan Banach (nonfiction)|Stefan Banach]] born. He will be one of the founders of modern functional analysis.
+||Erwin Panofsky (March 30, 1892 in Hannover – March 14, 1968 in Princeton, New Jersey) was a German-Jewish art historian, whose academic career was pursued mostly in the U.S. after the rise of the Nazi regime. Panofsky's work represents a high point in the modern academic study of iconography, which he used in hugely influential works like his "little book" Renaissance and Renascences in Western Art and his masterpiece, Early Netherlandish Painting.
 ||1894 – Sergey Ilyushin, Russian engineer, founded Ilyushin Aircraft Company (d. 1977)