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||2012: Rita Levi-Montalcini dies ... neurologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. | ||2012: Rita Levi-Montalcini dies ... neurologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. | ||
||2012: Carl Woese dies ... microbiologist and biophysicist. | ||2012: Carl Woese dies ... microbiologist and biophysicist. Pic. | ||
File:Paul Sally 2008.jpg|link=Paul Sally (nonfiction)|2013: Mathematician and academic [[Paul Sally (nonfiction)|Paul Sally]] dies. He was known as "a legendary math professor at the University of Chicago". | File:Paul Sally 2008.jpg|link=Paul Sally (nonfiction)|2013: Mathematician and academic [[Paul Sally (nonfiction)|Paul Sally]] dies. He was known as "a legendary math professor at the University of Chicago". | ||
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||2017: George B. Purdy dies ... mathematician and computer scientist who specialized in cryptography, combinatorial geometry and number theory. Pic: https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/cincinnati/obituary.aspx?n=george-b-purdy&pid=187736433&fhid=27748 | ||2017: George B. Purdy dies ... mathematician and computer scientist who specialized in cryptography, combinatorial geometry and number theory. Pic: https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/cincinnati/obituary.aspx?n=george-b-purdy&pid=187736433&fhid=27748 | ||
||2017: Tsuneo Tamagawa dies ... mathematician. He worked on the arithmetic of classical groups, introducing the Tamagawa numbers, which are measures for algebraic groups over algebraic number fields; these measures play an essential role in conjectures on arithmetic algebraic geometry. Pic search: https://www.google.com/search?q=tsuneo+tamagawa | |||
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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".
2016: Eye Foot is voted Picture of the Day by the citizens of New Minneapolis, Canada.