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File:Zénobe Gramme 1893.jpg|link=Zénobe Gramme (nonfiction)|1826: Electrical engineer [[Zénobe Gramme (nonfiction)|Zénobe Gramme]] born. He will invent the first usefully powerful electric motor.
File:Zénobe Gramme 1893.jpg|link=Zénobe Gramme (nonfiction)|1826: Electrical engineer [[Zénobe Gramme (nonfiction)|Zénobe Gramme]] born. He will invent the first usefully powerful electric motor.
||1839: James Blyth MA, LLD, FRSE FRSSA (4 April 1839 – 15 May 1906) was a Scottish electrical engineer and academic at Anderson's College, now the University of Strathclyde, in Glasgow. He was a pioneer in the field of electricity generation through wind power and his wind turbine, which was used to light his holiday home in Marykirk, was the world's first-known structure by which electricity was generated from wind power. Pic: http://scienceonstreets.phys.strath.ac.uk/new/James_Blyth.html


||1842: Édouard Lucas born ... mathematician and theorist ... known for his study of the Fibonacci sequence. The related Lucas sequences and Lucas numbers are named after him. Pic.
||1842: Édouard Lucas born ... mathematician and theorist ... known for his study of the Fibonacci sequence. The related Lucas sequences and Lucas numbers are named after him. Pic.
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File:Charles Hermite circa 1901.jpg|link=Charles Hermite (nonfiction)|1901: [[Charles Hermite (nonfiction)|Charles Hermite]] publishes paper on number theory as deterrent to [[crimes against mathematical constants]].
File:Charles Hermite circa 1901.jpg|link=Charles Hermite (nonfiction)|1901: [[Charles Hermite (nonfiction)|Charles Hermite]] publishes paper on number theory as deterrent to [[crimes against mathematical constants]].


||Charles Soret (died 4 April 1904) was a Swiss physicist and chemist. He is known for his work on thermodiffusion (the so-called Soret effect).
||1904: Charles Soret dies ... physicist and chemist. He is known for his work on thermodiffusion (the so-called Soret effect).


||Carl Barnett Allendoerfer (b. April 4, 1911) was an American mathematician in the mid-twentieth century, known for his work in topology and mathematics education.
||1911: Carl Barnett Allendoerfer born ... mathematician in the mid-twentieth century, known for his work in topology and mathematics education.


||1912 – Isaac K. Funk, American minister, lexicographer, and publisher, co-founded Funk & Wagnalls (b. 1839)
||1912: Isaac K. Funk dies ... minister, lexicographer, and publisher, co-founded Funk & Wagnalls.


||1919 – William Crookes, English chemist and physicist (b. 1832)
||1919: William Crookes dies ... chemist and physicist.


File:John Venn.jpg|link=John Venn (nonfiction)|1923: Mathematician and philosopher [[John Venn (nonfiction)|John Venn]] dies. He invented the Venn diagram, now widely used set theory, probability, logic, statistics, and computer science.
File:John Venn.jpg|link=John Venn (nonfiction)|1923: Mathematician and philosopher [[John Venn (nonfiction)|John Venn]] dies. He invented the Venn diagram, now widely used set theory, probability, logic, statistics, and computer science.
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|link=W. W. Rouse Ball (nonfiction)|Walter William Rouse Ball, known as W. W. Rouse Ball (d. 4 April 1925), was a British mathematician, lawyer, and fellow at Trinity College, Cambridge from 1878 to 1905. He was also a keen amateur magician, and the founding president of the Cambridge Pentacle Club in 1919, one of the world's oldest magic societies.
|link=W. W. Rouse Ball (nonfiction)|Walter William Rouse Ball, known as W. W. Rouse Ball (d. 4 April 1925), was a British mathematician, lawyer, and fellow at Trinity College, Cambridge from 1878 to 1905. He was also a keen amateur magician, and the founding president of the Cambridge Pentacle Club in 1919, one of the world's oldest magic societies.


||Robert Lawson Vaught (b. April 4, 1926) was a mathematical logician, and one of the founders of model theory. Pic.
||192: Robert Lawson Vaught born ... mathematical logician, and one of the founders of model theory. Pic.


||1929 – Karl Benz, German engineer and businessman, founded Mercedes-Benz (b. 1844)
||1929: Karl Benz dies ... engineer and businessman, founded Mercedes-Benz.


||1932 – Wilhelm Ostwald, Latvian-German chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1853)
||1932: Wilhelm Ostwald dies ... chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate.


||1933 – U.S. Navy airship, USS Akron, is wrecked off the New Jersey coast due to severe weather.
||1933: U.S. Navy airship, USS Akron, is wrecked off the New Jersey coast due to severe weather.


||1961 – Simion Stoilow, Romanian mathematician and academic (b. 1873)
||1961: Simion Stoilow dies ... mathematician and academic.


||1968 – Martin Luther King Jr. is assassinated by James Earl Ray at a motel in Memphis, Tennessee.
||1968: Martin Luther King Jr. is assassinated by James Earl Ray at a motel in Memphis, Tennessee.


||1968 – Apollo program: NASA launches Apollo 6.
||1968: Apollo program: NASA launches Apollo 6.


||1969 – Dr. Denton Cooley implants the first temporary artificial heart.
||1969: Dr. Denton Cooley implants the first temporary artificial heart.


File:Harry Nyquist.jpg|link=Harry Nyquist (nonfiction)|1976: Engineer and theorist [[Harry Nyquist (nonfiction)|Harry Nyquist]] dies. He did early theoretical work on determining the bandwidth requirements for transmitting information, laying the foundations for later advances by Claude Shannon, which led to the development of information theory.
File:Harry Nyquist.jpg|link=Harry Nyquist (nonfiction)|1976: Engineer and theorist [[Harry Nyquist (nonfiction)|Harry Nyquist]] dies. He did early theoretical work on determining the bandwidth requirements for transmitting information, laying the foundations for later advances by Claude Shannon, which led to the development of information theory.
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File:Dave the Gamer.jpg|link=Dave the Gamer|1977: [[Dave the Gamer]] announces "buy one, get one free" sale on all lucky dice in the store.
File:Dave the Gamer.jpg|link=Dave the Gamer|1977: [[Dave the Gamer]] announces "buy one, get one free" sale on all lucky dice in the store.


||Carl Ludwig Siegel (d. April 4, 1981) was a German mathematician specializing in number theory and celestial mechanics. He is known for, amongst other things, his contributions to the Thue–Siegel–Roth theorem in Diophantine approximation and the Siegel mass formula for quadratic forms.
||1981: Carl Ludwig Siegel dies ... mathematician specializing in number theory and celestial mechanics. He is known for, amongst other things, his contributions to the Thue–Siegel–Roth theorem in Diophantine approximation and the Siegel mass formula for quadratic forms.


||1983 – Space Shuttle Challenger makes its maiden voyage into space.
||1983: Space Shuttle Challenger makes its maiden voyage into space.


||1994 – Marc Andreessen and Jim Clark found Netscape Communications Corporation under the name Mosaic Communications Corporation.
||1994: Marc Andreessen and Jim Clark found Netscape Communications Corporation under the name Mosaic Communications Corporation.


||Ed "Big Daddy" Roth (d. April 4, 2001) was an artist, cartoonist, illustrator, pinstriper and custom car designer and builder who created the hot rod icon Rat Fink and other characters. Roth was a key figure in Southern California's Kustom Kulture and hot rod movement of the late 1950s and 1960s.
||2001: Ed "Big Daddy" Roth dies ... artist, cartoonist, illustrator, pinstriper and custom car designer and builder who created the hot rod icon Rat Fink and other characters. Roth was a key figure in Southern California's Kustom Kulture and hot rod movement of the late 1950s and 1960s.


||Boris Levitan (d. 4 April 2004) was a mathematician known in particular for his work on almost periodic functions, and Sturm–Liouville operators, especially, on inverse scattering.
||2004: Boris Levitan dies ... mathematician known in particular for his work on almost periodic functions, and Sturm–Liouville operators, especially, on inverse scattering.


||2007 – Karen Spärck Jones, English computer scientist and academic (b. 1935)
||2007: Karen Spärck Jones dies ... computer scientist and academic.


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  • 1807: Astronomer, freemason, and writer Joseph Jérôme Lefrançois de Lalande dies. As a lecturer and writer Lalande helped popularize astronomy. His planetary tables were the best available up to the end of the 18th century.

    1807: Astronomer, freemason, and writer Joseph Jérôme Lefrançois de Lalande dies. As a lecturer and writer Lalande helped popularize astronomy. His planetary tables were the best available up to the end of the 18th century.

  • 1826: Electrical engineer Zénobe Gramme born. He will invent the first usefully powerful electric motor.

    1826: Electrical engineer Zénobe Gramme born. He will invent the first usefully powerful electric motor.

  • 1901: Charles Hermite publishes paper on number theory as deterrent to crimes against mathematical constants.

    1901: Charles Hermite publishes paper on number theory as deterrent to crimes against mathematical constants.

  • 1923: Mathematician and philosopher John Venn dies. He invented the Venn diagram, now widely used set theory, probability, logic, statistics, and computer science.

    1923: Mathematician and philosopher John Venn dies. He invented the Venn diagram, now widely used set theory, probability, logic, statistics, and computer science.

  • 1976: Engineer and theorist Harry Nyquist dies. He did early theoretical work on determining the bandwidth requirements for transmitting information, laying the foundations for later advances by Claude Shannon, which led to the development of information theory.

    1976: Engineer and theorist Harry Nyquist dies. He did early theoretical work on determining the bandwidth requirements for transmitting information, laying the foundations for later advances by Claude Shannon, which led to the development of information theory.

  • 1977: Dave the Gamer announces "buy one, get one free" sale on all lucky dice in the store.

    1977: Dave the Gamer announces "buy one, get one free" sale on all lucky dice in the store.

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