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Learn About Three Famous People Born on January 4 – Isaac Newton Was Born On This Special Day, Read About Two Others
Learn About Three Famous People Born on January 4
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1643 – Isaac Newton, Grantham England, physicist, mathematician and astronomer (“Whatever goes up must come down”)
English physicist, mathematician, astronomer, natural philosopher, alchemist, and theologian who is perceived and considered by a substantial number of scholars and the general public as one of the most influential men in history. His 1687 publication of the Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica (usually called the Principia) is considered to be among the most influential books in the history of science, laying the groundwork for most of classical mechanics.
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In this work, Newton described universal gravitation and the three laws of motion which dominated the scientific view of the physical universe for the next three centuries. Newton showed that the motions of objects on Earth and of celestial bodies are governed by the same set of natural laws by demonstrating the consistency between Kepler’s laws of planetary motion and his theory of gravitation, thus removing the last doubts about heliocentrism and advancing the scientific revolution.
Newton also built the first practical reflecting telescope and developed a theory of colour based on the observation that a prism decomposes white light into the many colours that form the visible spectrum. He also formulated an empirical law of cooling and studied the speed of sound.
In mathematics, Newton shares the credit with Gottfried Leibniz for the development of the differential and integral calculus. He also demonstrated the generalised binomial theorem, developed the so-called “Newton’s method” for approximating the zeroes of a function, and contributed to the study of power series.
Newton remains influential to scientists, as demonstrated by a 2005 survey of scientists and the general public in Britain’s Royal Society asking who had the greater effect on the history of science, Newton or Albert Einstein. Newton was deemed to have made the greater overall contribution to science.
Newton was also highly religious, though an unorthodox Christian, writing more on Biblical hermeneutics than the natural science he is remembered for today.
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1962 – Peter Steele, American musician (Type O Negative)
Peter was born in Brooklyn, New York. He is of Polish, Icelandic, English, and Russian heritage. Steele is equally known for his dark, deadpan humor, being remarkably self-deprecating for a musician and clinical depression; he has occasionally received psychiatric treatment for the latter. There were unconfirmed rumors at one point of Steele’s death after the band website posted an image of a tombstone bearing his name and the dates 1962-2005. According to an article dated May 14, 2005, Steele was not dead; the gag was related to their fresh signing with SPV Records. The website discontinued the tombstone picture in October 2005. However, Steele had indeed disappeared for an extended time with no explanation from the band or management. Rumors of his death, terminal illness, and other speculations increased until the mystery was dispelled on the 2006 DVD Symphony for the Devil. Included in this DVD is an interview in which Steele briefly mentions his incarceration in Riker’s Island and “the psych ward at Kings County Hospital”, both stints apparently caused by his heavy substance abuse, for which he also served time on probation. Additionally, Steele was admittedly very bitter towards his sisters for what he perceived to be a betrayal of sorts that led to his jail time. This situation was incorporated into “Tripping A Blind Man” on Type O Negative’s 2007 album, Dead Again.
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2000 – Rhiannon Leigh Wryn, American actress
Wryn was born in Los Angeles, California, the younger sister of Connor Dylan Wryn and Hunter Ansley Wryn. She was named after the Fleetwood Mac song “Rhiannon”.
Wryn wanted to pursue acting because both of her siblings have appeared in acting roles. Her first role was in the 2003 film, Hulk as a younger version of Jennifer Connelly’s character Betty Ross. In 2005 she appeared in an episode of The King of Queens. Her first leading role was in The Last Mimzy, which was released on March 23, 2007. Wryn could not yet read during filming of The Last Mimzy, and thus the script had to be read to her so she could memorize it.
Wryn lives in Los Angeles. Her favorite video game is Cinderella Castle and her favorite film is Uptown Girls.
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