Template:Selected anniversaries/February 16
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1531: Mathematician, astronomer, astrologer, priest, maker of astronomical instruments, and professor Johannes Stöffler dies.
1822: Statistician, progressive, polymath, sociologist, psychologist, anthropologist, eugenicist, tropical explorer, geographer, inventor, meteorologist, proto-geneticist, and psychometrician Francis Galton born.
1898: Havelock survives shootout by playing dead.
1931: crossword puzzle used in scrying engine for the first time.
1966: Performance artist and crime-fighter Brion Gysin uses hand-held scrying engine to visualizes Hamangia figurines, discovers new class of Gnomon algorithm functions.