Tait Peter Guthrie (b. 1831-04-28 / d. 1901-07-04)
Peter Guthrie Tait FRSE was a Scottish mathematical physicist and early pioneer in thermodynamics. He is best known for the mathematical physics textbook Treatise on Natural Philosophy, which he co-wrote with Kelvin, and his early investigations into knot theory. His work on knot theory contributed to the eventual formation of topology as a mathematical discipline. His name is known in graph theory mainly for Tait's conjecture. He is also one of the namesakes of the Tait-Kneser theorem on osculating circles.
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Born 1923-03-03. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Age
Jean Minisini was a French actor. Before entering the world of cinema, Jean Minisini was a wrestler and stuntman. Official stand-in of the American actor Burt Lancaster, he worked in Hollywood. He is however well known to film fans for his role as henchman of Fantômas in the film by André Hunebelle (1964). Faithful stuntman of Claude Carliez and François Nadal's team, we see him fighting alongside Yvan Chiffre against Jean Marais and robbing a casino with Louis de Funès, Yvan Chiffre, Dominique Zardi and Henri Attal. He played a mobster named Jean-Jacques Rousseau in Le Majordome by Jean Delannoy in 1964. He played, in Le Corniaud (1964), a P.J. inspector alongside Eric Vasberg, Marius Gaidon and Jack Ary. He also played the role of "Mathieu la valise" in Un flic by Jean-Pierre Melville in 1972.
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Born 1833-09-28. Domain:Science (Math style). Cause of death:Age
Henri–Auguste Delannoy was a French army officer and amateur mathematician, after whom the Delannoy numbers are named. Delannoy grew up in Guéret, France, the son of a military accountant. After taking the baccalaureate in 1849, he studied mathematics in Bourges, near where his family lived, and after continuing his studies in Paris entered the École Polytechnique in 1853. He served as a lieutenant in the French artillery in the Second Italian War of Independence, in 1859, and became a captain in 1863. He continued to serve in the military, but shifted from the artillery to the supply corps; he served in Africa, became governor of a military hospital in Algeria, participated in the Franco-Prussian War in 1870, and eventually became an intendant in Orléans before retiring in 1889. His military decorations include the cross and officer's rosette of the Legion of Honour, awarded in 1868 and 1886 respectively. Beginning in 1879, Delannoy began a correspondence with Édouard Lucas on the subject of recreational mathematics and probability theory; he eventually published eleven mathematics articles. Along with his mathematical interests, Delannoy wrote about local history, painted, and from 1896 to 1915 served as the president of the Société des Sciences Naturelles et archéologiques de la Creuse