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Events
2002 – The last successful telemetry from NASA space probe Pioneer 10.
Births
1755 – Marc-Antoine Parseval, French mathematician
1791 – Samuel F. B. Morse, American inventor
1820 – Herbert Spencer, English philosopher and social evolutionist
1913 – Philip Hauge Abelson, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
1920 – Mark Krasnosel’skii, Russian-Ukrainian mathematician
1927 – Karl Alexander Müller, Swiss physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
1932 – Gian-Carlo Rota, Italian-born mathematician and philosopher
Deaths
1936 – Karl Pearson, English statistician and biometrician
1952 – Guido Castelnuovo, Italian mathematician