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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.
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)
||1593: Matthäus Merian born ... engraver and cartographer.


File:Cantor Parabola.jpg|link=Cantor Parabola|1624: Math photographer [[Cantor Parabola]] captures unprecedented images of Renaissance-era [[crimes against mathematical constants]].
File:Cantor Parabola.jpg|link=Cantor Parabola|1624: Math photographer [[Cantor Parabola]] captures unprecedented images of Renaissance-era [[crimes against mathematical constants]].


||1703 – Vincenzo Viviani, Italian mathematician and physicist (b. 1622)
||1703: Vincenzo Viviani dies ... mathematician and physicist.


||1765 – Paolo Ruffini, Italian mathematician and philosopher (d. 1822)
||1765: Paolo Ruffini born ... mathematician and philosopher.


||1791 – Michael Faraday, English physicist and chemist (d. 1867) Michael Faraday FRS (d. 22 September 1791) was an English scientist who contributed to the study of electromagnetism and electrochemistry. His main discoveries include the principles underlying electromagnetic induction, diamagnetism and electrolysis.
||1791: Michael Faraday born ... physicist and chemist ... scientist who contributed to the study of electromagnetism and electrochemistry. His main discoveries include the principles underlying electromagnetic induction, diamagnetism and electrolysis.


||1900 – Paul Hugh Emmett, American chemist and engineer (d. 1985)
||1900: Paul Hugh Emmett born ... chemist and engineer.


File:Maurice d'Ocagne.jpg|link=Philbert Maurice d’Ocagne (nonfiction)|1900: Mathematician, engineer, and [[Gnomon algorithm]] researcher [[Philbert Maurice d’Ocagne (nonfiction)|Philbert Maurice d’Ocagne]] invents a [[Nomogram (nonfiction)|nomogram]] which detects the [[Forbidden Ratio]].
File:Maurice d'Ocagne.jpg|link=Philbert Maurice d’Ocagne (nonfiction)|1900: Mathematician, engineer, and [[Gnomon algorithm]] researcher [[Philbert Maurice d’Ocagne (nonfiction)|Philbert Maurice d’Ocagne]] invents a [[Nomogram (nonfiction)|nomogram]] which detects the [[Forbidden Ratio]].


||Friedrich Karl Schmidt (b. 22 September 1901) was a German mathematician, who made notable contributions to algebra and number theory. Pic.
||1901: Friedrich Karl Schmidt born ... mathematician, who made notable contributions to algebra and number theory. Pic.


||1901 – Charles Brenton Huggins, Canadian-American physician and physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1997).
||1901: Charles Brenton Huggins born ... physician and physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate.


||Eugen Sänger (b. 22 September 1905) was an Austrian aerospace engineer best known for his contributions to lifting body and ramjet technology. Pic (postage stamp).
||1905: Eugen Sänger born ... aerospace engineer best known for his contributions to lifting body and ramjet technology. Pic (postage stamp).


||Wilhelm Otto Ludwig Specht (b. 22 September 1907) was a German mathematician who introduced Specht modules. He also proved the Specht criterion for unitary equivalence of matrices. Pic.
||1907: Wilhelm Otto Ludwig Specht born ... mathematician who introduced Specht modules. He also proved the Specht criterion for unitary equivalence of matrices. Pic.


||1912 – Herbert Mataré, German physicist and academic (d. 2011).
||1912: Herbert Mataré born ... physicist and academic.


||1927 – Jack Dempsey loses the "Long Count" boxing match to Gene Tunney.
||1927: Jack Dempsey loses the "Long Count" boxing match to Gene Tunney.


||Nicolae Popescu, Ph.D., D.Phil. (b. 22 September 1937) was a Romanian mathematician and Emeritus Professor.  
||1937: Nicolae Popescu born ... mathematician and Emeritus Professor.  
 
||1954: BARK (Swedish: Binär Aritmetisk (Automatisk) Relä-Kalkylator, lit. 'Binary Arithmetic (Automatic) Relay Calculator') taken offline.  BARK was an early electromechanical computer, built using standard telephone relays, implementing a 32-bit binary machine. Pic.


File:Alice Hamilton.jpg|link=Alice Hamilton (nonfiction)|1970: Physician, research scientist, and author [[Alice Hamilton (nonfiction)|Alice Hamilton]] dies. She was a leading expert in the field of occupational health and a pioneer in the field of industrial toxicology.
File:Alice Hamilton.jpg|link=Alice Hamilton (nonfiction)|1970: Physician, research scientist, and author [[Alice Hamilton (nonfiction)|Alice Hamilton]] dies. She was a leading expert in the field of occupational health and a pioneer in the field of industrial toxicology.
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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.


||Enrico Bompiani (d. 22 September 1975, Rome) was an Italian mathematician, specializing in differential geometry.
||1975: Enrico Bompiani dies ... mathematician, specializing in differential geometry.


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]].


||Otto Robert Frisch (d. 22 September 1979) was an Austrian-British physicist. With Lise Meitner he advanced the first theoretical explanation of nuclear fission (coining the term) and first experimentally detected the fission by-products. Later, with his collaborator Rudolf Peierls he designed the first theoretical mechanism for the detonation of an atomic bomb in 1940. Pic.
||1979: Otto Robert Frisch dies ... physicist. With Lise Meitner he advanced the first theoretical explanation of nuclear fission (coining the term) and first experimentally detected the fission by-products. Later, with his collaborator Rudolf Peierls he designed the first theoretical mechanism for the detonation of an atomic bomb in 1940. Pic.


||1979 – A bright flash, resembling the detonation of a nuclear weapon, is observed near the Prince Edward Islands. Its cause is never determined.
||1979: A bright flash, resembling the detonation of a nuclear weapon, is observed near the Prince Edward Islands. Its cause is never determined.


||Charles Ehresmann (d. 22 September 1979) was a French mathematician who worked in differential topology and category theory. He was an early member of the Bourbaki group, and is known for his work on the differential geometry of smooth fiber bundles, notably the Ehresmann connection, the concept of jets of a smooth map, and his seminar on category theory.
||1979: Charles Ehresmann dies ... mathematician who worked in differential topology and category theory. He was an early member of the Bourbaki group, and is known for his work on the differential geometry of smooth fiber bundles, notably the Ehresmann connection, the concept of jets of a smooth map, and his seminar on category theory.


||1991 – The Dead Sea Scrolls are made available to the public for the first time by the Huntington Library.
||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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File:Dennis_Paulson_of_Mars.jpg|link=Dennis Paulson of Mars|2017: [[Dennis Paulson of Mars|Dennis Paulson]] celebrates third anniversary the [[MAVEN (nonfiction)|MAVEN probe]] reaching [[Mars (nonfiction)|Mars]].
File:Dennis_Paulson_of_Mars.jpg|link=Dennis Paulson of Mars|2017: [[Dennis Paulson of Mars|Dennis Paulson]] celebrates third anniversary the [[MAVEN (nonfiction)|MAVEN probe]] reaching [[Mars (nonfiction)|Mars]].


|File:Brownian ratchet.png|link=Brownian ratchet (nonfiction)|New form of [[Brownian ratchet (nonfiction)|Brownian ratchet]] discovered.
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