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||1956 – Jackson Pollock, American painter (b. 1912) | ||1956 – Jackson Pollock, American painter (b. 1912) | ||
||Ion Barbu (d. 11 August 1961) was a Romanian mathematician and poet. Pic. | |||
||1962 – Vostok 3 launches from the Baikonur Cosmodrome and cosmonaut Andrian Nikolayev becomes the first person to float in microgravity. | ||1962 – Vostok 3 launches from the Baikonur Cosmodrome and cosmonaut Andrian Nikolayev becomes the first person to float in microgravity. |
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1578: Mathematician, cosmographer, and academic Pedro Nunes dies. One of the greatest mathematicians of his time, he is best known for his mathematical approach to navigation and cartography.
1890: Judge Havelock survives shootout by running away.
1974: Graphic designer and typographer Jan Tschichold dies. He was a leading advocate of Modernist design, but later condemn Modernist design in general as being authoritarian and inherently fascistic.
1975: Pin Man accuses Baron Zersetzung and Egon Rhodomunde of conspiring to commit crimes against mathematical constants.
2003: Mathematician and academic Armand Borel dies. He worked in algebraic topology, in the theory of Lie groups, and was one of the creators of the contemporary theory of linear algebraic groups.
1995: Mathematician and logician Alonzo Church dies. He made major contributions to mathematical logic and the foundations of theoretical computer science.
2017: Pin Man #1 is "a work in progress," says author Karl Jones. "I have characters sketches, and cover art, but I'm still thinking about the stories."