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1842: Osman Hamdi Bey born. He will be an administrator, intellectual, art expert, painter, and archaeologist.
1892: Mathematician Pekka Myrberg born. He will do fundamental work on the iteration of rational functions (especially quadratic functions), developing the concept of period-doubling. Myrberg's research will revive interest in the results of Gaston Julia and Pierre Fatou.
1916: Mystic and faith healer Grigori Rasputin dies.
1947: Mathematician and philosopher Alfred North Whitehead dies. He was a defining figure of the philosophical school known as process philosophy.
1947: Painter and forger Han van Meegeren dies. He was one of the most ingenious art forgers of the 20th century.
1954: Tunguska Event Preservation Society pledge drive day.
1963: Field Report Number One by Vandal Savage Press wins Pulitzer Award.
2013: Mathematician and academic Paul Sally dies. He was known as "a legendary math professor at the University of Chicago".

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 File:Osman Hamdi Bey.jpg|link=|link=Osman Hamdi Bey (nonfiction)|1842: [[Osman Hamdi Bey (nonfiction)|Osman Hamdi Bey]] born.  He will be an administrator, intellectual, art expert, painter, and archaeologist.
+||1869: Emilie Norton Martin born ... mathematician and academic. She will research primitive substitution groups of degree 15 and primitive substitution groups of degree 18.  Pic (nice).
 File:Pekka Myrberg.jpg|link=Pekka Myrberg (nonfiction)|1892: Mathematician [[Pekka Myrberg (nonfiction)|Pekka Myrberg]] born. He will do fundamental work on the iteration of rational functions (especially quadratic functions), developing the concept of period-doubling. Myrberg's research will revive interest in the results of Gaston Julia and Pierre Fatou.