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| ||1490 – Albert, Duke of Prussia, last Grand Master of the Teutonic Knights (d. 1568)
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| ||1551 – Martin Delrio, Belgian occultist and theologian (d. 1601)
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| ||1682 – Bartholomew Roberts, Welsh pirate (d. 1722)
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| ||1749 – Edward Jenner, English physician and microbiologist (d. 1823)
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| File:Alexis Clairault.jpg|link=Alexis Clairaut (nonfiction)|1765: Mathematician, astronomer, and geophysicist [[Alexis Clairaut (nonfiction)|Alexis Clairaut]] dies. His work helped to establish the validity of the principles and results that Sir Isaac Newton had outlined in the ''Principia'' of 1687. | | File:Alexis Clairault.jpg|link=Alexis Clairaut (nonfiction)|1765: Mathematician, astronomer, and geophysicist [[Alexis Clairaut (nonfiction)|Alexis Clairaut]] dies. His work helped to establish the validity of the principles and results that Sir Isaac Newton had outlined in the ''Principia'' of 1687. |
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| ||1801 – William Heberden, English physician and scholar (b. 1710)
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| ||1818 – Ezra Otis Kendall, American professor, astronomer and mathematician (d. 1899)
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| ||Heinrich Wilhelm Brandes (d. 1834) was a German physicist, meteorologist, and astronomer.
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| ||Sir Joseph Norman Lockyer, KCB FRS (b. 17 May 1836), known simply as Norman Lockyer, was an English scientist and astronomer. Along with the French scientist Pierre Janssen he is credited with discovering the gas helium. Lockyer also is remembered for being the founder and first editor of the influential journal Nature. Pic.
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| ||1836 – Wilhelm Steinitz, Austrian-American chess player (d. 1900)
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| File:Johann Philipp Reis.jpg|link=|1854: Scientist and inventor [[Johann Philipp Reis (nonfiction)|Johann Philipp Reis]] uses [[Gnomon algorithm functions]] to prevent outbreak of [[Kingpin inclination]].
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| ||1860 – Charlotte Barnum, American mathematician and social activist (d. 1934)
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| ||1865 – The International Telegraph Union (later the International Telecommunication Union) is established in Paris.
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| ||Gerrit Mannoury (b. 17 May 1867) was a Dutch philosopher and mathematician, professor at the University of Amsterdam and communist, known as the central figure in the signific circle, a Dutch counterpart of the Vienna circle.
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| ||Ludwik Silberstein (b. 1872) was a Polish-American physicist who helped make special relativity and general relativity staples of university coursework. His textbook The Theory of Relativity was published by Macmillan in 1914 with a second edition, expanded to include general relativity, in 1924.
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| ||Ebenezer Cunningham (b. 7 May 1881) was a British mathematician who is remembered for his research and exposition at the dawn of special relativity.
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| ||1893 – Frederick McKinley Jones, African-American inventor and entrepreneur (d. 1961)
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| ||1897 – Odd Hassel, Norwegian chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1981)
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| File:Antikythera mechanism (fragment A front).jpg|link=Antikythera mechanism (nonfiction)|1902: Greek archaeologist Valerios Stais discovers the [[Antikythera mechanism (nonfiction)|Antikythera mechanism]], an ancient mechanical analog computer. | | File:Antikythera mechanism (fragment A front).jpg|link=Antikythera mechanism (nonfiction)|1902: Greek archaeologist Valerios Stais discovers the [[Antikythera mechanism (nonfiction)|Antikythera mechanism]], an ancient mechanical analog computer. |
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| ||1909 – Julius Sumner Miller, American physicist and academic (d. 1987)
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| ||1912 – Mary Beatrice Davidson Kenner, American inventor (d. 2006)
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| ||1916 – Boris Borisovich Golitsyn, Russian physicist and seismologist (b. 1862)
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| ||Dr John Paul Wild (17 May 1923) was a British-born Australian scientist. In the 1950s and 1960s he made discoveries based on radio observations of the Sun. In the late 1960s and early 1970s his team built and operated the world's first solar radio-spectrographs and subsequently the Culgoora radio-heliograph. Pic.
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| ||1926 – Franz Sondheimer, German-English chemist and academic (d. 1981)
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| ||Max Valier (d. May 17, 1930) was an Austrian rocketry pioneer. He helped found the German Verein für Raumschiffahrt (VfR - "Spaceflight Society") that would bring together many of the minds that would later make spaceflight a reality in the 20th century. Pic (drawing).
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| ||1964 – Nandor Fodor, Hungarian-American psychologist and parapsychologist (b. 1895)
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| ||1969 – Venera program: Soviet Venera 6 begins its descent into the atmosphere of Venus, sending back atmospheric data before being crushed by pressure.
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| ||1974 – Police in Los Angeles raid the Symbionese Liberation Army's headquarters, killing six members, including Camilla Hall.
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| ||1983 – The U.S. Department of Energy declassifies documents showing world's largest mercury pollution event in Oak Ridge, Tennessee (ultimately found to be 4.2 million pounds), in response to the Appalachian Observer's Freedom of Information Act request.
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| ||1984 – Prince Charles calls a proposed addition to the National Gallery, London, a "monstrous carbuncle on the face of a much-loved and elegant friend", sparking controversies on the proper role of the Royal Family and the course of modern architecture.
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| ||1987 – An Iraqi Dassault Mirage F1 fighter jet fires two missiles into the U.S. Navy warship USS Stark, killing 37 and injuring 21 of her crew.
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| ||1990 – The General Assembly of the World Health Organization (WHO) eliminates homosexuality from the list of psychiatric diseases.
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| ||1995 – Shawn Nelson steals an M60 tank from the California Army National Guard Armory in San Diego and proceeds to go on a rampage.
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| ||Clifford Ambrose Truesdell III (d. 2000) was an American mathematician, natural philosopher, and historian of science.
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| ||2014 – Gerald Edelman, American biologist and immunologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1929)
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| File:Anarchimedes.jpg|link=Anarchimedes|2016: Math criminal [[Anarchimedes]] plans to steal, restore, and [[Weaponization (nonfiction)|weaponize]] the [[Antikythera mechanism]], warn crime analysts.
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