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||1684 – Edme Mariotte, French physicist and priest (b. 1620)
File:Justus von Liebig circa 1866.jpg|link=Justus von Liebig (nonfiction)|1803: Chemist and academic [[Justus von Liebig (nonfiction)|Justus von Liebig]] born. Von Liebeg will make pioneering contributions to organic chemistry, especially agricultural and biological chemistry; he will be known as the "Father of the fertilizer industry".
 
||1748 – Thomas Lowndes, English astronomer and academic (b. 1692)
 
||1803 – Justus von Liebig, German chemist and academic (d. 1873)
 
||Georg Adolf Erman (b. 12 May 1806) was a German physicist.
 
File:Edward Lear.jpg|link=Edward Lear (nonfiction)|1812: Artist, musician, author, and poet [[Edward Lear (nonfiction)|Edward Lear]] born either today or tomorrow.
 
||Florence Nightingale (b. 12 May 1820) was an English social reformer and statistician, and the founder of modern nursing. She was a pioneer in the use of infographics, effectively using graphical presentations of statistical data. Pic.
 
||Pierre René Jean Baptiste Henri Brocard (b. 12 May 1845) was a French meteorologist and mathematician, in particular a geometer. His best-known achievement is the invention and discovery of the properties of the Brocard points, the Brocard circle, and the Brocard triangle, all bearing his name. Pic.
 
File:Wizard Jan Kochanowski.jpg|link=Jan_Kochanowski|1855: Mathematician, circus magician, and gentleman detective [[Jan Kochanowski]] uses [[Nebra sky disk (nonfiction)|Nebra sky disk]] to detect and prevent [[crimes against mathematical constants]].


File:Jacques Binet.jpg|link=Jacques Philippe Marie Binet (nonfiction)|1856: Mathematician, physicist, and astronomer [[Jacques Philippe Marie Binet (nonfiction)|Jacques Philippe Marie Binet]] dies. He made significant contributions to number theory, and the mathematical foundations of matrix algebra.
File:Jacques Binet.jpg|link=Jacques Philippe Marie Binet (nonfiction)|1856: Mathematician, physicist, and astronomer [[Jacques Philippe Marie Binet (nonfiction)|Jacques Philippe Marie Binet]] dies. He made significant contributions to number theory, and the mathematical foundations of matrix algebra.


||Oskar Bolza (b. 12 May 1857) was a German mathematician Pic.
File:Oskar Bolza.jpg|link=Oskar Bolza (nonfiction)|1857: Mathematician [[Oskar Bolza (nonfiction)|Oskar Bolza]] born. He will be known for his research in the calculus of variations; his work on variations for an integral problem involving inequalities will later became important in control theory.
 
||Eduard Ritter von Weber (b. May 12, 1870) was a German mathematician. He will work with partial differential equations, in particular the Pfaff problem.  Pic.
 
||1878 – Anselme Payen, French chemist and academic (b. 1795)
 
||1895 – William Giauque, Canadian-American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1982)
 
||Joseph John Rochefort (b. May 12, 1900) was an American Naval officer and cryptanalyst. His contributions and those of his team were pivotal to victory in the Pacific War. Rochefort was a major figure in the United States Navy's cryptographic and intelligence operations from 1925 to 1946, particularly in the Battle of Midway.
 
||William Maurice "Doc" Ewing (b. May 12, 1906 ) was an American geophysicist and oceanographer.
 
File:Stanisław Leśniewski.jpg|link=Stanisław Leśniewski (nonfiction)|1907: Mathematician, logician, and crime-fighter [[Stanisław Leśniewski (nonfiction)|Stanisław Leśniewski]] publishes his philosophy of three nested formal systems and their application to detecting and preventing [[crimes against mathematical constants]].
 
||1910 – Dorothy Hodgkin, English biochemist, crystallographer, and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1994)
 
||1918 – Julius Rosenberg, American spy (d. 1953)
 
|File:Lev Schnirelmann.jpg|link=Lev Schnirelmann (nonfiction)|1923: Mathematician [[Lev Schnirelmann (nonfiction)|Lev Schnirelmann]] uses proof that any natural number greater than 1 can be written as the sum of not more than C prime numbers, where C is an effectively computable constant, to detect and prevent [[crimes against mathematical constants]].
 
||1924 – Alexander Esenin-Volpin, Russian-American mathematician and poet (d. 2016). No pic.
 
||George Christopher Williams (b. May 12, 1926) was an American evolutionary biologist. Pic.
 
||1926 – The Italian-built airship Norge becomes the first vessel to fly over the North Pole.


File:Konrad Zuse (1992).jpg|link=Konrad Zuse (nonfiction)|1941: Engineer, inventor, and pioneering computer scientist [[Konrad Zuse (nonfiction)|Konrad Zuse]] presents the Z3, the world's first working programmable, fully automatic computer, in Berlin.
File:Konrad Zuse (1992).jpg|link=Konrad Zuse (nonfiction)|1941: Engineer, inventor, and pioneering computer scientist [[Konrad Zuse (nonfiction)|Konrad Zuse]] presents the Z3, the world's first working programmable, fully automatic computer, in Berlin.
||1942 – World War II: The U.S. tanker SS Virginia is torpedoed in the mouth of the Mississippi River by the German submarine U-507.
||1965 – The Soviet spacecraft Luna 5 crashes on the Moon.
||2001 – Alexei Tupolev, Russian engineer, designed the Tupolev Tu-144 (b. 1925)
||Sir William Huggins (d. 12 May 1910) was an English astronomer best known for his pioneering work in astronomical spectroscopy together with his wife Margaret Lindsay Huggins. Pic.
||Jesse Ernest Wilkins Jr. (d. May 12, 2011) was an African American nuclear scientist, mechanical engineer and mathematician.  Pic.


File:H. R. Giger 2012.jpg|link=H. R. Giger (nonfiction)|2014: Painter, sculptor, and set designer [[H. R. Giger (nonfiction)|H. R. Giger]] dies. He gained fame for his work on the film ''[[Alien (film) (nonfiction)|Alien]]''.
File:H. R. Giger 2012.jpg|link=H. R. Giger (nonfiction)|2014: Painter, sculptor, and set designer [[H. R. Giger (nonfiction)|H. R. Giger]] dies. He gained fame for his work on the film ''[[Alien (film) (nonfiction)|Alien]]''.


File:The Eel Time-Surfing 2.jpg|link=The Eel Time-Surfing 2|2017: Art critic and alleged supervillain [[The Eel]] escapes from [[The Nacreum]] using a [[The Eel Time-Surfing 2|surfboard powered by the gnomon algorithm]].
File:The Eel Time-Surfing 2.jpg|link=The Eel Time-Surfing 2|2017: Art critic and alleged supervillain [[The Eel]] escapes from The Nacreum using a surfboard controlled by a bespoke gnomon algorithm.


||2017 – A ransomware attack attacks over 400 thousand computers worldwide, targeting computers of the UK'S National Health Services and Telefónica computers.


File:Pinwheel Diagram.jpg|link=Pinwheel Diagram (nonfiction)|2018: ''[[Pinwheel Diagram (nonfiction)|Pinwheel Diagram]]'' sells for $500 USD in charity auction to benefit victims of [[crimes against mathematical constants]].
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  • 1803: Chemist and academic Justus von Liebig born. Von Liebeg will make pioneering contributions to organic chemistry, especially agricultural and biological chemistry; he will be known as the "Father of the fertilizer industry".

    1803: Chemist and academic Justus von Liebig born. Von Liebeg will make pioneering contributions to organic chemistry, especially agricultural and biological chemistry; he will be known as the "Father of the fertilizer industry".

  • 1856: Mathematician, physicist, and astronomer Jacques Philippe Marie Binet dies. He made significant contributions to number theory, and the mathematical foundations of matrix algebra.

    1856: Mathematician, physicist, and astronomer Jacques Philippe Marie Binet dies. He made significant contributions to number theory, and the mathematical foundations of matrix algebra.

  • 1857: Mathematician Oskar Bolza born. He will be known for his research in the calculus of variations; his work on variations for an integral problem involving inequalities will later became important in control theory.

    1857: Mathematician Oskar Bolza born. He will be known for his research in the calculus of variations; his work on variations for an integral problem involving inequalities will later became important in control theory.

  • 1941: Engineer, inventor, and pioneering computer scientist Konrad Zuse presents the Z3, the world's first working programmable, fully automatic computer, in Berlin.

    1941: Engineer, inventor, and pioneering computer scientist Konrad Zuse presents the Z3, the world's first working programmable, fully automatic computer, in Berlin.

  • 2014: Painter, sculptor, and set designer H. R. Giger dies. He gained fame for his work on the film Alien.

    2014: Painter, sculptor, and set designer H. R. Giger dies. He gained fame for his work on the film Alien.

  • 2017: Art critic and alleged supervillain The Eel escapes from The Nacreum using a surfboard controlled by a bespoke gnomon algorithm.

    2017: Art critic and alleged supervillain The Eel escapes from The Nacreum using a surfboard controlled by a bespoke gnomon algorithm.

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