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||1083: Anna Komnene born ... physician and scholar.
||1083: Anna Komnene born ... Byzantine princess, scholar, physician, hospital administrator, and historian. She was the daughter of the Byzantine Emperor Alexios I Komnenos and his wife Irene Doukaina. She is best known for her attempt to usurp her brother, John II Komnenos, and for her work The Alexiad, an account of her father's reign. DOD unknown. Pic.


||1455: Lorenzo Ghiberti dies ... goldsmith and sculptor.
||1455: Lorenzo Ghiberti dies ... goldsmith and sculptor. No DOB. Pic: portrait sculpture.


||1525: Tadeáš Hájek born ... physician and astronomer. Pic.
||1525: Tadeáš Hájek born ... physician and astronomer. Pic.


||1580: Nicolas-Claude Fabri de Peiresc born ... astronomer and historian.
||1580: Nicolas-Claude Fabri de Peiresc born ... astronomer and historian. Pic.


||1671: John Keill born ... mathematician, academic and author who was an important disciple of Isaac Newton. Pic: book cover.
||1671: John Keill born ... mathematician, academic and author who was an important disciple of Isaac Newton. Pic: book cover.
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File:1969 draft lottery scatterplot.svg|link=Draft lottery (1969) (nonfiction)|1969: The first [[Draft lottery (1969) (nonfiction)|draft lottery]] in the United States is held since World War II.
File:1969 draft lottery scatterplot.svg|link=Draft lottery (1969) (nonfiction)|1969: The first [[Draft lottery (1969) (nonfiction)|draft lottery]] in the United States is held since World War II.
||1970: Ruth Law Oliver dies ... pioneer American aviator during the 1910s. Pic cool aviation.


||1977: Kenneth O. May dies ... mathematician and historian of mathematics, who developed May's theorem. Pic: https://www.mathunion.org/ichm/about-us/brief-history-international-commission-history-mathematics-ichm
||1977: Kenneth O. May dies ... mathematician and historian of mathematics, who developed May's theorem. Pic: https://www.mathunion.org/ichm/about-us/brief-history-international-commission-history-mathematics-ichm

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