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Mae Carol Jemison (born October 17, 1956) is an American physician and NASA astronaut. She became the first African American woman to travel in space when she went into orbit aboard the Space Shuttle Endeavour on September 12, 1992. Read more
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Freimut Börngen
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Freimut Börngen (born October 17, 1930) is a German astronomer. He has studied galaxies with the Schmidt telescope at the Karl Schwarzschild Observatory in Tautenburg, Germany. In 1995 he retired, but continues to work as a freelancer for the observatory. As a by-product of his work, he has disco...
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Gary McKinnon
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Gary McKinnon: May Blocks Extradition To US The mother of Gary McKinnon said she was "overwhelmed" when she learned he had won his 10-year battle against extradition to the US. Janis Sharp was speaking after the Home Secretary stopped the self-confessed computer hacker being sent to th...
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Wil Shipley
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William "Wil" Jon Shipley (born October 16, 1969) is a Macintosh software developer, best known for co-founding and heading The Omni Group in 1991, where he did consulting work and developed software for the NeXTSTEP operating system, Rhapsody and later Mac OS X. Read more
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Cyril Ponnamperuma (1923 - 1994)
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Dr. Cyril Andrew Ponnamperuma (16 October 1923 - 20 December 1994) was a Sri Lankan scientist in the fields of chemical evolution and the origin of life. Read more
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Rahima Banu Begum
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Rahima Banu Begum (born 1973) is the last known person to have been infected with naturally occurring Variola major smallpox. The case occurred on 16 October 1975, when the two-year old Banu was living in the village of Kuralia on Bhola Island in the Bangladesh district of Barisal. Read more
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Roberto Vittori
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Roberto Vittori (Viterbo, October 15, 1964) is an Italian air force officer and an ESA astronaut. After graduating from the Italian Accademia Aeronautica in 1989, Vittori flew in the Italian Air Force. He then trained as a test pilot in the United States. Read more
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Evangelista Torricelli (1608 - 1647)
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Evangelista Torricelli (15 October 1608 - 25 October 1647) was an Italian physicist and mathematician, best known for his invention of the barometer. Read more
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Archibald Hoxsey (1884 - 1910)
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Archibald Hoxsey (October 15, 1884 - December 31, 1910) was an aviator for the Wright brothers. On December 30, 1910 Hoxley set the flight altitude record of 11,474 feet. He died on December 31, 1910 in Los Angeles, California after crashing from 7,000 feet. He was trying to set a new flight altitude r...
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Arto Oksanen
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Arto Oksanen is a Finnish amateur astronomer. He has been actively working in the fields of variable stars, asteroid search programs, gamma ray bursts, CCD photometry and building state-of-the-art amateur observatories in Finland. He has been mostly working in the Nyrölä Observatory that is lo...
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Reta F. Beebe
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Reta F. Beebe (born October 15, 1936) is an American astronomer, author, and populariser of astronomy. She is an expert on the planets Jupiter and Saturn, and the author of Jupiter: The Giant Planet. She is a professor emeritus in the Astronomy Department at New Mexico State University and 2010 winn...
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Edwin Charles Tubb (1919 - 2010)
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Edwin Charles Tubb (15 October 1919 - 10 September 2010) was a British writer of science fiction, fantasy and western novels. The author of over 140 novels and 230 short stories and novellas, Tubb is best known for The Dumarest Saga (US collective title: Dumarest of Terra) an epic science-fiction sa...
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Bernhard Hermann Neumann (1909 - 2002)
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Bernhard Hermann Neumann AC FRS (15 October 1909 -20 October 2002) was a German-born British mathematician who was one of the leading figures in group theory, greatly influencing the direction of the subject. Read more
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Gian Carlo Wick (1909 - 1992)
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Gian Carlo Wick (October 15, 1909, Turin - April 20, 1992, Turin) was an Italian theoretical physicist who made important contributions to quantum field theory. The Wick rotation, Wick contraction, Wick's theorem, and the Wick product are named after him. Read more
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Adora Lily Svitak
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Adora Lily Svitak (born October 15, 1997) is an American child prodigy and internationally published author, known for her essays, stories, poems, blogs, and full-length books. Adora first became known to the public when, at the age of 6, she was recognized on local news in Seattle for her writing a...
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