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File:Philipp Nicodemus Frischlin.jpg|link=Philipp Nicodemus Frischlin (nonfiction)|1547: Philologist, mathematician, astronomer, and poet [[Philipp Nicodemus Frischlin (nonfiction)|Philipp Nicodemus Frischlin]] born. His prolific and versatile genius will produce a great variety of works, but his reckless life and libelous letters will lead to imprisonment. | |||
||1593 – Matthäus Merian, Swiss-German engraver and cartographer (d. 1650) | |||
File:Cantor Parabola.jpg|link=Cantor Parabola|1624: Math photographer [[Cantor Parabola]] publishes study of Renaissance-era [[crimes against mathematical constants]]. | File:Cantor Parabola.jpg|link=Cantor Parabola|1624: Math photographer [[Cantor Parabola]] publishes study of Renaissance-era [[crimes against mathematical constants]]. | ||
||1703 – Vincenzo Viviani, Italian mathematician and physicist (b. 1622) | |||
||1765 – Paolo Ruffini, Italian mathematician and philosopher (d. 1822) | |||
||1791 – Michael Faraday, English physicist and chemist (d. 1867) | |||
||1927 – Jack Dempsey loses the "Long Count" boxing match to Gene Tunney. | |||
||1900 – Paul Hugh Emmett, American chemist and engineer (d. 1985) | |||
||1901 – Charles Brenton Huggins, Canadian-American physician and physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1997) | |||
||1912 – Herbert Mataré, German physicist and academic (d. 2011) | |||
File:Winfried Otto Schumann.jpg|link=Winfried Otto Schumann (nonfiction)|1974: Physicist [[Winfried Otto Schumann (nonfiction)|Winfried Otto Schumann]] dies. He predicted the existence of Schumann resonances, a series of low-frequency resonances caused by lightning discharges in the atmosphere. | File:Winfried Otto Schumann.jpg|link=Winfried Otto Schumann (nonfiction)|1974: Physicist [[Winfried Otto Schumann (nonfiction)|Winfried Otto Schumann]] dies. He predicted the existence of Schumann resonances, a series of low-frequency resonances caused by lightning discharges in the atmosphere. | ||
File:Shoshichi Kobayashi.jpg|link=Shoshichi Kobayashi (nonfiction)|1976: Mathematician and crime-fighter [[Shoshichi Kobayashi (nonfiction)|Shoshichi Kobayashi]] uses transformation groups of geometric structures to detect and prevent [[crimes against mathematical constants]]. | File:Shoshichi Kobayashi.jpg|link=Shoshichi Kobayashi (nonfiction)|1976: Mathematician and crime-fighter [[Shoshichi Kobayashi (nonfiction)|Shoshichi Kobayashi]] uses transformation groups of geometric structures to detect and prevent [[crimes against mathematical constants]]. | ||
||1979 – A bright flash, resembling the detonation of a nuclear weapon, is observed near the Prince Edward Islands. Its cause is never determined. | |||
||1991 – The Dead Sea Scrolls are made available to the public for the first time by the Huntington Library. | |||
File:Irving Adler age 75.jpg|link=Irving Adler (nonfiction)|2012: Mathematician, author, activist, and academic [[Irving Adler (nonfiction)|Irving Adler]] dies. He was a plaintiff in the McCarthy-era case ''Adler vs. Board of Education''. | File:Irving Adler age 75.jpg|link=Irving Adler (nonfiction)|2012: Mathematician, author, activist, and academic [[Irving Adler (nonfiction)|Irving Adler]] dies. He was a plaintiff in the McCarthy-era case ''Adler vs. Board of Education''. | ||
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1547: Philologist, mathematician, astronomer, and poet Philipp Nicodemus Frischlin born. His prolific and versatile genius will produce a great variety of works, but his reckless life and libelous letters will lead to imprisonment.
1624: Math photographer Cantor Parabola publishes study of Renaissance-era crimes against mathematical constants.
1974: Physicist Winfried Otto Schumann dies. He predicted the existence of Schumann resonances, a series of low-frequency resonances caused by lightning discharges in the atmosphere.
1976: Mathematician and crime-fighter Shoshichi Kobayashi uses transformation groups of geometric structures to detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.
2012: Mathematician, author, activist, and academic Irving Adler dies. He was a plaintiff in the McCarthy-era case Adler vs. Board of Education.
2013: Signed first edition of Skip Digits, Conductor stolen; US Treasury investigators say money trail leads to Baron Zersetzung.