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||1563 – Jodocus Hondius, Flemish engraver and cartographer (d. 1611)
||1563: Jodocus Hondius born ... engraver and cartographer.


||1641 – Joachim Tielke German instrument maker (d. 1719)
||1641: Joachim Tielke born ... instrument maker.


||1687 – Robert Simson, Scottish mathematician and academic (d. 1768)
||1687: Robert Simson born ... mathematician and academic.


||Cosimo Alessandro Collini (b. 14 October 1727) was an Italian historian and Voltaire's secretary from 1752 to 1756. Pic.
||1727: Cosimo Alessandro Collini born ... historian and Voltaire's secretary from 1752 to 1756. Pic.


||1801 – Joseph Plateau, Belgian physicist and academic, created the Phenakistoscope (d. 1883)
||1801: Joseph Plateau born ... physicist and academic, created the Phenakistoscope.


File:Jean-Louis_Pons.jpg|link=Jean-Louis Pons (nonfiction)|1831: Astronomer [[Jean-Louis Pons (nonfiction)|Jean-Louis Pons]] dies. He was the greatest visual comet discoverer of all time: between 1801 and 1827, Pons discovered thirty-seven comets, more than any other person in history.
File:Jean-Louis_Pons.jpg|link=Jean-Louis Pons (nonfiction)|1831: Astronomer [[Jean-Louis Pons (nonfiction)|Jean-Louis Pons]] dies. He was the greatest visual comet discoverer of all time: between 1801 and 1827, Pons discovered thirty-seven comets, more than any other person in history.


||Friedrich Wilhelm Georg Kohlrausch (b. 14 October 1840) was a German physicist who investigated the conductive properties of electrolytes and contributed to knowledge of their behaviour. He also investigated elasticity, thermoelasticity, and thermal conduction as well as magnetic and electrical precision measurements.
||1840: Friedrich Wilhelm Georg Kohlrausch born ... physicist who investigated the conductive properties of electrolytes and contributed to knowledge of their behaviour. He also investigated elasticity, thermoelasticity, and thermal conduction as well as magnetic and electrical precision measurements.


||Marcus Beck (b. 14 October 1843) was a British professor of surgery at University College Hospital. He was an early proponent of the germ theory of disease and promoted the discoveries of Louis Pasteur, Robert Koch, and Joseph Lister in surgical literature of the time.  
||1843: Marcus Beck born ... professor of surgery at University College Hospital. He was an early proponent of the germ theory of disease and promoted the discoveries of Louis Pasteur, Robert Koch, and Joseph Lister in surgical literature of the time.  


||Alessandro Padoa (b. 14 October 1868) was an Italian mathematician and logician, a contributor to the school of Giuseppe Peano. He is remembered for a method for deciding whether, given some formal theory, a new primitive notion is truly independent of the other primitive notions.
||1868: Alessandro Padoa born ... mathematician and logician, a contributor to the school of Giuseppe Peano. He is remembered for a method for deciding whether, given some formal theory, a new primitive notion is truly independent of the other primitive notions.


File:Culvert Origenes.jpg|link=Culvert Origenes|1881: Writer and alleged troll [[Culvert Origenes]] calls [[Extract of Radium]] "a plague on all living things, and a curse on civilization."
File:Culvert Origenes.jpg|link=Culvert Origenes|1881: Writer and alleged troll [[Culvert Origenes]] calls [[Extract of Radium]] "a plague on all living things, and a curse on civilization."
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File:George Eastman.jpg|link=George Eastman (nonfiction)|1884: Inventor [[George Eastman (nonfiction)|George Eastman]] receives a U.S. Government patent on his new paper-strip photographic film.
File:George Eastman.jpg|link=George Eastman (nonfiction)|1884: Inventor [[George Eastman (nonfiction)|George Eastman]] receives a U.S. Government patent on his new paper-strip photographic film.


||1888 – Louis Le Prince films first motion picture: Roundhay Garden Scene.
||1888: Louis Le Prince films first motion picture: Roundhay Garden Scene.


||1900 – W. Edwards Deming, American statistician, author, and academic (d. 1993) Educated initially as an electrical engineer and later specializing in mathematical physics, he helped develop the sampling techniques still used by the U.S. Department of the Census and the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
||1900: W. Edwards Deming born ... statistician, author, and academic ... Educated initially as an electrical engineer and later specializing in mathematical physics, he helped develop the sampling techniques still used by the U.S. Department of the Census and the Bureau of Labor Statistics.


||Kurt Schütte (b. 14 October 1909) was a German mathematician who worked on proof theory and ordinal analysis. The Feferman–Schütte ordinal, which he showed to be the precise ordinal bound for predicativity, is named after him. Pic.
||1909: Kurt Schütte born ... mathematician who worked on proof theory and ordinal analysis. The Feferman–Schütte ordinal, which he showed to be the precise ordinal bound for predicativity, is named after him. Pic.


||1914 – Raymond Davis Jr., American chemist and physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2006)
||1914: Raymond Davis Jr. born ... chemist and physicist, Nobel Prize laureate.


||1932 – Anatoly Larkin, Russian-American physicist and academic (d. 2005)
||1932: Anatoly Larkin born ... physicist and academic.


||1939 – The German submarine U-47 sinks the British battleship HMS Royal Oak within her harbour at Scapa Flow, Scotland.
||1939: The German submarine U-47 sinks the British battleship HMS Royal Oak within her harbour at Scapa Flow, Scotland.


||1947 – Captain Chuck Yeager of the United States Air Force flies a Bell X-1 rocket-powered experimental aircraft, the Glamorous Glennis, faster than the speed of sound at Mach 1.06 (700 miles per hour (1,100 km/h; 610 kn) over the high desert of Southern California and becomes the first pilot and the first airplane to do so in level flight.
||1947: Captain Chuck Yeager of the United States Air Force flies a Bell X-1 rocket-powered experimental aircraft, the Glamorous Glennis, faster than the speed of sound at Mach 1.06 (700 miles per hour (1,100 km/h; 610 kn) over the high desert of Southern California and becomes the first pilot and the first airplane to do so in level flight.


File:J._R._Oppenheimer.jpg|link=J. R. Oppenheimer|1948: Musician and physicist [[J. R. Oppenheimer]] performs his hit song "Destroyer of Worlds" at the Grand Ole Opry, leading to his being summoned before the [[House Un-American Activities Committee (nonfiction)|House Un-American Activities Committee]].
File:J._R._Oppenheimer.jpg|link=J. R. Oppenheimer|1948: Musician and physicist [[J. R. Oppenheimer]] performs his hit song "Destroyer of Worlds" at the Grand Ole Opry, leading to his being summoned before the [[House Un-American Activities Committee (nonfiction)|House Un-American Activities Committee]].


||1960 – Abram Ioffe, Russian physicist and academic (b. 1880) Abram Fedorovich (or Fyodorovich) Ioffe (Russian: Абра́м Фёдорович Ио́ффе; 29 October [O.S. 17 October] 1880 – 14 October 1960) was a prominent Russian/Soviet physicist. He received the Stalin Prize (1942), the Lenin Prize (1960) (posthumously), and the Hero of Socialist Labor (1955). Ioffe was an expert in electromagnetism, radiology, crystals, high-impact physics, thermoelectricity and photoelectricity. He established research laboratories for radioactivity, superconductivity, and nuclear physics
||1960: Abram Ioffe, Russian physicist and academic dies ... an expert in electromagnetism, radiology, crystals, high-impact physics, thermoelectricity and photoelectricity. He established research laboratories for radioactivity, superconductivity, and nuclear physics


||1962 – The Cuban Missile Crisis begins: A U.S. Air Force U-2 reconnaissance plane and its pilot flies over the island of Cuba and takes photographs of Soviet SS-4 Sandal missiles being installed and erected in Cuba.
||1962: The Cuban Missile Crisis begins: A U.S. Air Force U-2 reconnaissance plane and its pilot flies over the island of Cuba and takes photographs of Soviet SS-4 Sandal missiles being installed and erected in Cuba.


||1964 – Martin Luther King Jr. received the Nobel Peace Prize for combating racial inequality through nonviolence.
||1964: Martin Luther King Jr. received the Nobel Peace Prize for combating racial inequality through nonviolence.


||1968 – Apollo program: The first live TV broadcast by American astronauts in orbit performed by the Apollo 7 crew.
||1968: Apollo program: The first live TV broadcast by American astronauts in orbit performed by the Apollo 7 crew.


||Norman Earl Steenrod (d. October 14, 1971) was a mathematician most widely known for his contributions to the field of algebraic topology.
||1971: Norman Earl Steenrod dies ... mathematician most widely known for his contributions to the field of algebraic topology.


||1984 – Martin Ryle, English astronomer and physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1918)
||1984: Martin Ryle dies ... astronomer and physicist, Nobel Prize laureate.


||1986 – Takahiko Yamanouchi, Japanese physicist (b. 1902) Takahiko Yamanouchi (山内 恭彦 Yamanouchi Takahiko, d. 1986) was a Japanese theoretical physicist, known for group theory in quantum mechanics first proposed by Yamanouchi in Japan.
||1986: Takahiko Yamanouchi dies ... theoretical physicist, known for group theory in quantum mechanics first proposed by Yamanouchi in Japan.


||Walter Maurice Elsasser (d. October 14, 1991) was a German-born American physicist considered a "father" of the presently accepted dynamo theory as an explanation of the Earth's magnetism. He proposed that this magnetic field resulted from electric currents induced in the fluid outer core of the Earth. Pic.
||1991: Walter Maurice Elsasser dies ... physicist considered a "father" of the presently accepted dynamo theory as an explanation of the Earth's magnetism. He proposed that this magnetic field resulted from electric currents induced in the fluid outer core of the Earth. Pic.


||2008 – Robert Furman, American engineer and intelligence officer (b. 1915)
||2008: Robert Furman dies ... engineer and intelligence officer.


File:Benoit Mandelbrot.jpg|link=Benoit Mandelbrot (nonfiction)|2010: Mathematician [[Benoit Mandelbrot (nonfiction)|Benoit Mandelbrot]] dies.
File:Benoit Mandelbrot.jpg|link=Benoit Mandelbrot (nonfiction)|2010: Mathematician [[Benoit Mandelbrot (nonfiction)|Benoit Mandelbrot]] dies.


||2011 – Ashawna Hailey, American computer scientist and philanthropist (b. 1949)
||2011: Ashawna Hailey dies ... computer scientist and philanthropist.


||2012 – Gart Westerhout, Dutch-American astronomer and academic (b. 1927)
||2012: Gart Westerhout dies ... astronomer and academic.
 
File:Blue City Sunset.jpg|link=Blue City Sunset (nonfiction)|2016: ''[[Blue City Sunset (nonfiction)|Blue City Sunset]]'' voted Picture of the Day by the citizens of [[New Minneapolis, Canada]].


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