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||1860 – Alicia Boole Stott, Irish-English mathematician and theorist (d. 1940)
||1860 – Alicia Boole Stott, Irish-English mathematician and theorist (d. 1940)
||1867 – Frank Lloyd Wright, American architect, designed the Price Tower and Fallingwater (d. 1959)
||1867 – Frank Lloyd Wright, American architect, designed the Price Tower and Fallingwater (d. 1959)
||Ernst-Robert Grawitz (b. 8 June 1899) was a German physician and an SS functionary (Reichsarzt, "arzt" meaning "physician") during the Nazi era.
||1897 – John G. Bennett, English mathematician and technologist (d. 1974)
||1910 – C. C. Beck, American illustrator (d. 1989) comics


File:Emmy Noether.jpg|link=Emmy Noether (nonfiction)|1912: Mathematician [[Emmy Noether (nonfiction)|Emmy Noether]] uses [[Gnomon algorithm]] techniques to detect and prevent [[crimes against mathematical constants]].
File:Emmy Noether.jpg|link=Emmy Noether (nonfiction)|1912: Mathematician [[Emmy Noether (nonfiction)|Emmy Noether]] uses [[Gnomon algorithm]] techniques to detect and prevent [[crimes against mathematical constants]].
||1916 – Francis Crick, English biologist, biophysicist, and neuroscientist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2004)
||1918 – John D. Roberts, American chemist and academic (d. 2016)
||1930 – Robert Aumann, German-American mathematician and economist, Nobel Prize laureate
||1936 – Kenneth G. Wilson, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2013)


||1942 – World War II: The Japanese imperial submarines I-21 and I-24 shell the Australian cities of Sydney and Newcastle.
||1942 – World War II: The Japanese imperial submarines I-21 and I-24 shell the Australian cities of Sydney and Newcastle.
||1949 – Helen Keller, Dorothy Parker, Danny Kaye, Fredric March, John Garfield, Paul Muni and Edward G. Robinson are named in an FBI report as Communist Party members.
||1949 – George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four is published.
||1967 – Six-Day War: The USS Liberty incident occurs, killing 34 and wounding 171.
||1972 – Vietnam War: Nine-year-old Phan Thị Kim Phúc is burned by napalm, an event captured by Associated Press photographer Nick Ut moments later while the young girl is seen running down a road, in what would become an iconic, Pulitzer Prize-winning photo.
||1997 – Karen Wetterhahn, American chemist and academic (b. 1948) mercury poison death
||1998 – Maria Reiche, German mathematician and archaeologist (b. 1903)
||2000 – Jeff MacNelly, American cartoonist (b. 1948) Shoe
||2004 – Charles Hyder, American astrophysicist and academic (b. 1930)
||2004 – The first Venus Transit in well over a century takes place, the previous one being in 1882.


||File:Rule 90 trees.svg|link=Cellular automaton (nonfiction)|2004: New version of [[Bernoulli family (nonfiction)|Bernoulli family tree]] powered by [[Cellular automaton (nonfiction)|cellular automata]].
||File:Rule 90 trees.svg|link=Cellular automaton (nonfiction)|2004: New version of [[Bernoulli family (nonfiction)|Bernoulli family tree]] powered by [[Cellular automaton (nonfiction)|cellular automata]].


||File:Egg Tooth Neighborhood Association logo.jpg|link=Egg Tooth (neighborhood)|2009: [[Egg Tooth (neighborhood)|Egg Tooth Neighborhood Association]] sponsors contest to discover discover new member of [[Bernoulli family (nonfiction)|the Bernoulli family]].
||File:Egg Tooth Neighborhood Association logo.jpg|link=Egg Tooth (neighborhood)|2009: [[Egg Tooth (neighborhood)|Egg Tooth Neighborhood Association]] sponsors contest to discover discover new member of [[Bernoulli family (nonfiction)|the Bernoulli family]].
||2012 – Charles E. M. Pearce, New Zealand-Australian mathematician and academic (b. 1940)
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  • 1789: James Madison introduces nine amendments to the constitution in the House of Representatives, inluencing later Bill of Rights amendments.

    1789: James Madison introduces nine amendments to the constitution in the House of Representatives, inluencing later Bill of Rights amendments.

  • 1809: Thomas Paine dies. He authored the two most influential pamphlets at the start of the American Revolution, and inspired the rebels in 1776 to declare independence from Britain.

    1809: Thomas Paine dies. He authored the two most influential pamphlets at the start of the American Revolution, and inspired the rebels in 1776 to declare independence from Britain.

  • 1912: Mathematician Emmy Noether uses Gnomon algorithm techniques to detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.

    1912: Mathematician Emmy Noether uses Gnomon algorithm techniques to detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.

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