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  • 8-13-1819

    George Stokes born in County Sligo, Ireland. He would do important work in hydrodynamics and become Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at Cambridge University.

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  • 8-13-1861

    Cesare Burali-Forti born in Arezzo, Italy. He discovered the antimony of the class of all ordinals in 1897. He never held a permanent university position because he failed his libera docenze (license to teach), reportedly due to objections by some members of his examining committee to the new methods of vector analysis.

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  • 8-13-1910

    Florence Nightingale died in East Wellow, England. The famous nurse used statistics to argue for better sanitary conditions in military hospitals in the Crimea and at home in England.

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    Florence Nightingale