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||1896: Friedrich Hund born .. physicist and academic/
||1896: Friedrich Hund born .. physicist and academic/
File:Charles Lindbergh.jpg|link=Charles Lindbergh (nonfiction)|1902: Pilot and explorer [[Charles Lindbergh (nonfiction)|Charles Lindbergh]] born. At age 25 in 1927 he will go from obscurity as a U.S. Air Mail pilot to instantaneous world fame by making his Orteig Prize–winning nonstop flight from Long Island, New York, to Paris.


||1903: Alexander Imich born ... chemist, parapsychologist, and academic.
||1903: Alexander Imich born ... chemist, parapsychologist, and academic.


File:Charles Lindbergh.jpg|link=Charles Lindbergh (nonfiction)|1902: Pilot and explorer [[Charles Lindbergh (nonfiction)|Charles Lindbergh]] born. At age 25 in 1927 he will go from obscurity as a U.S. Air Mail pilot to instantaneous world fame by making his Orteig Prize–winning nonstop flight from Long Island, New York, to Paris.  
||1903: Alexander Oppenheim born ... mathematician. In mathematics, his most notable contribution is his Oppenheim conjecture. Pic: http://www-history.mcs.st-and.ac.uk/Biographies/Oppenheim.html


File:Clyde W. Tombaugh.jpg|link=Clyde Tombaugh (nonfiction)|1906: Astronomer and academic [[Clyde Tombaugh (nonfiction)|Clyde Tombaugh]] born. He will discover Pluto, along with many asteroids.
File:Clyde W. Tombaugh.jpg|link=Clyde Tombaugh (nonfiction)|1906: Astronomer and academic [[Clyde Tombaugh (nonfiction)|Clyde Tombaugh]] born. He will discover Pluto, along with many asteroids.

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