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||901 – Thābit ibn Qurra, Iraqi physician, astronomer, and mathematician (b. 826)
||1201 – Nasir al-Din al-Tusi, Persian scientist and writer (d. 1274)
||1535 – Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa, German magician, astrologer, and theologian (b. 1486)
||1626 – Francesco Redi, Italian physician (d. 1697)
||1745 – Alessandro Volta, Italian physicist, invented the battery (d. 1827)
||1766 – A mutiny by captive Malagasy begins at sea on the slave ship Meermin, leading to the ship's destruction on Cape Agulhas in present-day South Africa and the recapture of the instigators.
||1788 – John Whitehurst, English geologist and clockmaker (b. 1713)
File:Antoine Becquerel.jpg|link=Antoine César Becquerel (nonfiction)|1809: Physicist and academic [[Antoine César Becquerel (nonfiction)|Antoine César Becquerel]] uses [[Electricity (nonfiction)|electricity]] to power new type of [[scrying engine]].
File:Antoine Becquerel.jpg|link=Antoine César Becquerel (nonfiction)|1809: Physicist and academic [[Antoine César Becquerel (nonfiction)|Antoine César Becquerel]] uses [[Electricity (nonfiction)|electricity]] to power new type of [[scrying engine]].
||1838 – Ernst Mach, Austrian physicist and philosopher (d. 1916)
File:Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi.jpg|link=Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi (nonfiction)|1851: Mathematician and academic [[Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi (nonfiction)|Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi]] dies. He made fundamental contributions to elliptic functions, dynamics, differential equations, and number theory.
File:Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi.jpg|link=Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi (nonfiction)|1851: Mathematician and academic [[Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi (nonfiction)|Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi]] dies. He made fundamental contributions to elliptic functions, dynamics, differential equations, and number theory.
||1871 – Harry Brearley, English inventor (d. 1948)
||1880 – Nikolay Zinin, Russian organic chemist (b. 1812)
File:Clyde W. Tombaugh.jpg|link=Clyde Tombaugh (nonfiction)|1930: While studying photographs taken in January, astronomer [[Clyde Tombaugh (nonfiction)|Clyde Tombaugh]] discovers Pluto.
File:Emmy Noether.jpg|link=Emmy Noether (nonfiction)|1930: Mathematician [[Emmy Noether (nonfiction)|Emmy Noether]] publishes new class of [[Gnomon algorithm functions]] which transform theoretical physics into practical physics.  
File:Emmy Noether.jpg|link=Emmy Noether (nonfiction)|1930: Mathematician [[Emmy Noether (nonfiction)|Emmy Noether]] publishes new class of [[Gnomon algorithm functions]] which transform theoretical physics into practical physics.  
||||Joseph Gilbert Hamilton (November 11, 1907 – February 18, 1957) was an American professor of Medical Physics, Experimental Medicine, General Medicine, and Experimental Radiology as well as director (1948-1957) of the Crocker Laboratory, part of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.
 
||1931 – Johnny Hart, American cartoonist, co-created The Wizard of Id (d. 2007)
 
||1943 – World War II: The Nazis arrest the members of the White Rose movement.
 
||1955 – Operation Teapot: Teapot test shot "Wasp" is successfully detonated at the Nevada Test Site with a yield of 1.2 kilotons. Wasp is the first of fourteen shots in the Teapot series.
 
||1957 – Henry Norris Russell, American astronomer, astrophysicist, and academic (b. 1877)
 
||Joseph Gilbert Hamilton (d. February 18, 1957) was an American professor of Medical Physics, Experimental Medicine, General Medicine, and Experimental Radiology as well as director (1948-1957) of the Crocker Laboratory, part of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.
 
||1964 – Joseph-Armand Bombardier, Canadian inventor and businessman, founded Bombardier Inc. (b. 1907)
 
File:J. Robert Oppenheimer.jpg|link=J. Robert Oppenheimer (nonfiction)|1967: American physicist and academic [[J. Robert Oppenheimer (nonfiction)|J. Robert Oppenheimer]] dies. His achievements in physics included the Born–Oppenheimer approximation for molecular wavefunctions, work on the theory of electrons and positrons, the Oppenheimer–Phillips process in nuclear fusion, and the first prediction of quantum tunneling.
File:J. Robert Oppenheimer.jpg|link=J. Robert Oppenheimer (nonfiction)|1967: American physicist and academic [[J. Robert Oppenheimer (nonfiction)|J. Robert Oppenheimer]] dies. His achievements in physics included the Born–Oppenheimer approximation for molecular wavefunctions, work on the theory of electrons and positrons, the Oppenheimer–Phillips process in nuclear fusion, and the first prediction of quantum tunneling.
||1970 – The Chicago Seven are found not guilty of conspiring to incite riots at the 1968 Democratic National Convention.
||1973 – Frank Costello, Italian-American gangster (b. 1891)
||1977 – The Space Shuttle Enterprise test vehicle is carried on its maiden "flight" on top of a Boeing 747.
||1981 – Jack Northrop, American engineer and businessman, founded the Northrop Corporation (b. 1895) Flying wing
||2001 – FBI agent Robert Hanssen is arrested for spying for the Soviet Union. He is ultimately convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment.
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  • 1809: Physicist and academic Antoine César Becquerel uses electricity to power new type of scrying engine.

    1809: Physicist and academic Antoine César Becquerel uses electricity to power new type of scrying engine.

  • 1851: Mathematician and academic Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi dies. He made fundamental contributions to elliptic functions, dynamics, differential equations, and number theory.

    1851: Mathematician and academic Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi dies. He made fundamental contributions to elliptic functions, dynamics, differential equations, and number theory.

  • 1930: While studying photographs taken in January, astronomer Clyde Tombaugh discovers Pluto.

    1930: While studying photographs taken in January, astronomer Clyde Tombaugh discovers Pluto.

  • 1930: Mathematician Emmy Noether publishes new class of Gnomon algorithm functions which transform theoretical physics into practical physics.

    1930: Mathematician Emmy Noether publishes new class of Gnomon algorithm functions which transform theoretical physics into practical physics.

  • 1967: American physicist and academic J. Robert Oppenheimer dies. His achievements in physics included the Born–Oppenheimer approximation for molecular wavefunctions, work on the theory of electrons and positrons, the Oppenheimer–Phillips process in nuclear fusion, and the first prediction of quantum tunneling.

    1967: American physicist and academic J. Robert Oppenheimer dies. His achievements in physics included the Born–Oppenheimer approximation for molecular wavefunctions, work on the theory of electrons and positrons, the Oppenheimer–Phillips process in nuclear fusion, and the first prediction of quantum tunneling.

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