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||1684: Edme Mariotte born ... physicist and priest. Pic.
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 dies ... astronomer and academic.
 
||1803: Justus von Liebig born ... chemist and academic.
 
||1806: Georg Adolf Erman born ... 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.
 
||1820: Florence Nightingale born ... 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.
 
||1823: John Russell Hind born ... astronomer. Early discoverer of asteroids.  Pic.
 
||1845: Pierre René Jean Baptiste Henri Brocard born ... 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.


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.
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.
||1870: Eduard Ritter von Weber born ... mathematician. He will work with partial differential equations, in particular the Pfaff problem.  Pic.
||1878: Anselme Payen dies ... chemist and academic.
||1895: William Giauque born ... chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate.
||1900: Joseph John Rochefort born ... 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.
||1906: William Maurice "Doc" Ewing born ... 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 born ... biochemist, crystallographer, and academic, Nobel Prize laureate.
||1918: Julius Rosenberg born ... American spy.
||1919: Wu Wenjun born ... mathematician and academician at the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), best known for the Wu's method of characteristic set. Pic: https://www.quantumcalculus.org/wenjun-wu-1919-2017/
|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 born ... mathematician and poet. No pic.
||1926: George Christopher Williams born ... 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 dies ... engineer, designed the Tupolev Tu-144.
||1910: William Huggins dies ... astronomer best known for his pioneering work in astronomical spectroscopy together with his wife Margaret Lindsay Huggins. Pic.
||2011: Jesse Ernest Wilkins Jr. dies ... 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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