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|File:Das Gespenst eines Flohs.jpg|link=Monster (nonfiction)|1889: [[Monster (nonfiction)|monster]] appear onstage at Madison Square Garden.
|File:Das Gespenst eines Flohs.jpg|link=Monster (nonfiction)|1889: [[Monster (nonfiction)|monster]] appear onstage at Madison Square Garden.


||1895 – Gábor Szegő, Hungarian mathematician and academic (d. 1985)
||1895 – Gábor Szegő, Hungarian mathematician and academic (d. 1985) Nopic


File:Elisha Gray.jpg|link=|1898: Electrical engineer [[Elisha Gray (nonfiction)|Elisha Gray]] uses his "telephote" technology to detect and prevent [[crimes against mathematical constants]].
File:Elisha Gray.jpg|link=|1898: Electrical engineer [[Elisha Gray (nonfiction)|Elisha Gray]] uses his "telephote" technology to detect and prevent [[crimes against mathematical constants]].
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File:Zénobe Gramme 1893.jpg|link=Zénobe Gramme (nonfiction)|1901: Electrical engineer [[Zénobe Gramme (nonfiction)|Zénobe Gramme]] dies. He invented the first usefully powerful electric motor.
File:Zénobe Gramme 1893.jpg|link=Zénobe Gramme (nonfiction)|1901: Electrical engineer [[Zénobe Gramme (nonfiction)|Zénobe Gramme]] dies. He invented the first usefully powerful electric motor.


||1918 – Nevin Scrimshaw, American scientist (d. 2013)
||1918 – Nevin Scrimshaw, American scientist (d. 2013) Nopic


||Edwin Hewitt (b. January 20, 1920) was an American mathematician known for his work in abstract harmonic analysis and for his discovery, in collaboration with Leonard Jimmie Savage, of the Hewitt–Savage zero–one law.
||Edwin Hewitt (b. January 20, 1920) was an American mathematician known for his work in abstract harmonic analysis and for his discovery, in collaboration with Leonard Jimmie Savage, of the Hewitt–Savage zero–one law.

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