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||154 – Bardaisan, Syrian astrologer, scholar, and philosopher (d. 222)
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||1382 – Nicole Oresme, French philosopher (b. 1325) polymath
||154: Bardaisan born ... astrologer, scholar, and philosopher. No DOD. No pics online.


||1405 – Ming admiral Zheng He sets sail to explore the world for the first time.
||1382: Nicole Oresme dies ... philosopher ... polymath. No DOB. Pic.


||1603 – Kenelm Digby, English astrologer, courtier, and diplomat (d. 1665)
||1405: Ming admiral Zheng He sets sail to explore the world for the first time ... consisted of a fleet of 317 ships holding almost 28,000 crewmen. Pic.


||1653 – Sarah Good, American woman accused of witchcraft (d. 1692)
||1603: Kenelm Digby born ... astrologer, courtier, and diplomat.  Powder of sympathy. Pic.


||1709 – Johan Gottschalk Wallerius, Swedish chemist and mineralogist (d. 1785)
||1709: Johan Gottschalk Wallerius born ... chemist and mineralogist. Wallerius will be regarded as the founder of agricultural chemistry, mainly based on the significance of his widely disseminated work ''Agriculturae fundamenta chemica''. Pic.


||1754 – Thomas Bowdler, English physician and philanthropist (d. 1825)
File:Jérôme Lalande.jpg|link=Jérôme Lalande (nonfiction)|1732: Astronomer, freemason, and writer [[Jérôme Lalande (nonfiction)|Joseph Jérôme Lefrançois de Lalande]] born. As a lecturer and writer Lalande will help popularize astronomy. His planetary tables will be the best available up to the end of the 18th century.
 
||1754: Thomas Bowdler born ... physician and philanthropist ... best known for publishing ''The Family Shakspeare'', an expurgated edition of William Shakespeare's plays. Pic: book cover.
 
||1774: Professor Robert Jameson born ... naturalist and mineralogist. Pic.


File:Jean-Louis_Pons.jpg|link=Jean-Louis Pons (nonfiction)|1801: Astronomer [[Jean-Louis Pons (nonfiction)|Jean-Louis Pons]] makes his first comet discovery. In the next 27 years he discovers another 36 comets, more than any other person in history.
File:Jean-Louis_Pons.jpg|link=Jean-Louis Pons (nonfiction)|1801: Astronomer [[Jean-Louis Pons (nonfiction)|Jean-Louis Pons]] makes his first comet discovery. In the next 27 years he discovers another 36 comets, more than any other person in history.


||1882 – James Larkin White, American miner, explorer, and park ranger (d. 1946)
||1807: George Atwood dies ... mathematician who invented a machine for illustrating the effects of Newton's first law of motion.  Pic: https://alchetron.com/George-Atwood
 
||1811: William Robert Grove born ... judge and physical scientist. He anticipated the general theory of the conservation of energy, and was a pioneer of fuel cell technology. He invented the Grove voltaic cell. Pic.
 
File:Pieter Rijke.jpg|link=Pieter Rijke (nonfiction)|1812: Physicist and academic [[Pieter Rijke (nonfiction)|Petrus Leonardus Rijke]] born. He will explore the physics of electricity, and be known for the Rijke tube (which turns heat into sound, by creating a self-amplifying standing wave).
 
||1857: Joseph Larmor born ... physicist and mathematician who made innovations in the understanding of electricity, dynamics, thermodynamics, and the electron theory of matter. Pic.
 
||1882: James Larkin White born ... miner, explorer, and park ranger. Pic.


||1893 – The first cultured pearl is obtained by Kokichi Mikimoto.
||1888: Jacob Tamarkin born ... mathematician best known for his work in mathematical analysis. Pic search.


||1895 – Brothers Auguste and Louis Lumière demonstrate movie film technology to scientists.
||1891: Brain surgeon and academic Herbert Olivecrona born.  He is credited with founding the field of Swedish neurosurgery, and pioneering developments in modern neurosurgery. Pic.


||1897 – Salomon August Andrée leaves Spitsbergen to attempt to reach the North Pole by balloon. He later crashes and dies.
||1893: The first cultured pearl is obtained by Kokichi Mikimoto. Pic.


||1909 – Simon Newcomb, Canadian-American astronomer and mathematician (b. 1835)
||1895: Brothers Auguste and Louis Lumière demonstrate movie film technology to scientists. Pic.


||1916 – Alexander Prokhorov, Australian-Russian physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2002)
||1897: Salomon August Andrée leaves Spitsbergen to attempt to reach the North Pole by balloon. He later crashes and dies.


||1924 – César Lattes, Brazilian physicist and academic (d. 2005)
||1902: Samuel Abraham Goudsmit born ... physicist famous for jointly proposing the concept of electron spin with George Eugene Uhlenbeck in 1925. Pic.


||1927 – Theodore Maiman, American-Canadian physicist and engineer (d. 2007)
||1902: Rolf Widerøe born ... accelerator physicist who was the originator of many particle acceleration concepts, including the resonance accelerator and the betatron accelerator. Pic: https://alchetron.com/Rolf-Wider%C3%B8e


||1934 – Engelbert Zaschka of Germany flies his large human-powered aircraft, the Zaschka Human-Power Aircraft, about 20 meters at Berlin Tempelhof Airport without assisted take-off.
||1904: Helmut Grunsky born ... mathematician who worked in complex analysis and geometric function theory. He introduced Grunsky's theorem and the Grunsky inequalities. Pic.


||1906: Hermann Boerner born ... mathematician who worked on variation calculus, complex analysis, and group representation theory. Pic.


File:Culvert Origenes and The Governess.jpg|link=Culvert Origenes and The Governess|1957: Signed first edition of ''Culvert Origenes and The Governess'' sells for five hundred thousand dollars in charity benefit for victims of [[crimes against mathematical constants]].
||1909: Simon Newcomb dies ... astronomer and mathematician. Pic.
 
||1912: Ferdinand Monoyer dies ... ophthalmologist, invented the Monoyer chart. Pic.
 
||1916: Alexander Prokhorov born ... physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic.
 
||1922: John William Scott "Ian" Cassels born ... mathematician ... writing a series of papers connecting the Selmer group with Galois cohomology and laying some of the foundations of the modern theory of infinite descent[citation needed]. His best-known single result may be the proof that the Tate-Shafarevich group, if it is finite, must have order that is a square; the proof being by construction of an alternating form. Pic: http://www.learn-math.info/mathematicians/historyDetail.htm?id=Cassels&menuH=wiki
 
||1924: Cesare Mansueto Giulio Lattes born ... experimental physicist, one of the discoverers of the pion, a composite subatomic particle made of a quark and an antiquark. Pic: https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ficheiro:Cesar_lattes_01.png
 
||1927: Ted Taylor born ... theoretical physicist. He contributed to fission nuclear weapon development, designing the smallest fission bomb of the era ("Davy Crockett"), which weighed only 60 pounds. His later career focused on nuclear energy. Pic search.
 
||1927: Theodore Harold "Ted" Maiman born ... engineer and physicist who was widely, but not universally, credited with the invention of the laser (Others attribute the invention to Gordon Gould). Pic.
 
File:Tullio Regge.jpg|link=Tullio Regge (nonfiction)|1931: Physicist and academic [[Tullio Regge (nonfiction)|Tullio Regge]] born.  He and G. Ponzano will develop a quantum version of Regge calculus in three space-time dimensions now known as the Ponzano-Regge model; this will be the first of a whole series of state sum models for quantum gravity known as spin foam models.
 
||1934: Engelbert Zaschka of Germany flies his large human-powered aircraft, the Zaschka Human-Power Aircraft, about 20 meters at Berlin Tempelhof Airport without assisted take-off. Pic (cool!).
 
||1957: Joseph Larmor born ... physicist and mathematician who made innovations in the understanding of electricity, dynamics, thermodynamics, and the electron theory of matter. Pic: http://www.newulsterbiography.co.uk/index.php/home/viewPerson/825


File:EDSAC.jpg|link=Electronic delay storage automatic calculator (nonfiction)|1958: [[Electronic delay storage automatic calculator (nonfiction)|EDSAC]], the first practical electronic digital stored-program computer, is shut down, having been superseded by EDSAC 2.
File:EDSAC.jpg|link=Electronic delay storage automatic calculator (nonfiction)|1958: [[Electronic delay storage automatic calculator (nonfiction)|EDSAC]], the first practical electronic digital stored-program computer, is shut down, having been superseded by EDSAC 2.


||1962 – First transatlantic satellite television transmission.
||1962: First transatlantic satellite television transmission.
 
||1962: Project Apollo: At a press conference, NASA announces lunar orbit rendezvous as the means to land astronauts on the Moon, and return them to Earth.
 
||1966: Delmore Schwartz dies ... poet and short story writer. Pic.
 
||1975: Crockett Johnson dies ... pen name of the American cartoonist and children's book illustrator David Johnson Leisk. He is best known for the comic strip Barnaby (1942–1952) and the Harold series of books beginning with Harold and the Purple Crayon. From 1965 until his death Johnson created over a hundred paintings relating to mathematics and mathematical physics. Pic.
 
||1979: America's first space station, Skylab, is destroyed as it re-enters the Earth's atmosphere over the Indian Ocean.


||1962 – Project Apollo: At a press conference, NASA announces lunar orbit rendezvous as the means to land astronauts on the Moon, and return them to Earth.
||1994: Gary Kildall dies ... American computer scientist and microcomputer entrepreneur who created the CP/M operating system and founded Digital Research, Inc. (DRI). Kildall was one of the first people to see microprocessors as fully capable computers, rather than equipment controllers, and to organize a company around this concept. Pic.


File:Telstar.jpg|link=Telstar (nonfiction)|1963: [[Telstar (nonfiction)|Telstar]] becomes the world's first communications satellite capable of detecting and preventing [[crimes against mathematical constants]].
||1995: Andrzej Alexiewicz dies ... mathematician ... worked in functional analysis, and continued and edited the work of Stefan Banach ... the Alexiewicz norm is an integral norm associated to the Henstock–Kurzweil integral. The Alexiewicz norm turns the space of Henstock–Kurzweil integrable functions into a topological vector space that is barrelled but not complete. Pic.


||1979 – America's first space station, Skylab, is destroyed as it re-enters the Earth's atmosphere over the Indian Ocean.
||1999: Jan Sloot dies ... computer scientist and electronics technician. Pic search.


||1994 – Gary Kildall, American computer scientist, founded Digital Research (b. 1942)
||1925: Astronomer and academic Tom Gehrels dies. Gehrels pioneered the first photometric system of asteroids in the 1950s, and wavelength dependence of polarization of stars and planets in the 1960s. Pic (cool).


||1999 – Jan Sloot, Dutch computer scientist and electronics technician (b. 1945)
||2013: Emik Avakian dies ... inventor, disabled assistance. Pic.


||2013 – Emik Avakian, Iranian-American inventor (b. 1923)
||2013: Egbert Valentin Brieskorn dies ... mathematician who introduced Brieskorn spheres and the Brieskorn–Grothendieck resolution. Pic.


||2013 – Egbert Brieskorn, German mathematician and academic (b. 1936)
||2015: Satoru Iwata dies ... game programmer and businessman. Pic.


||2015 – Satoru Iwata, Japanese game programmer and businessman (b. 1959)
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  • 1732: Astronomer, freemason, and writer Joseph Jérôme Lefrançois de Lalande born. As a lecturer and writer Lalande will help popularize astronomy. His planetary tables will be the best available up to the end of the 18th century.

    1732: Astronomer, freemason, and writer Joseph Jérôme Lefrançois de Lalande born. As a lecturer and writer Lalande will help popularize astronomy. His planetary tables will be the best available up to the end of the 18th century.

  • 1801: Astronomer Jean-Louis Pons makes his first comet discovery. In the next 27 years he discovers another 36 comets, more than any other person in history.

    1801: Astronomer Jean-Louis Pons makes his first comet discovery. In the next 27 years he discovers another 36 comets, more than any other person in history.

  • 1812: Physicist and academic Petrus Leonardus Rijke born. He will explore the physics of electricity, and be known for the Rijke tube (which turns heat into sound, by creating a self-amplifying standing wave).

    1812: Physicist and academic Petrus Leonardus Rijke born. He will explore the physics of electricity, and be known for the Rijke tube (which turns heat into sound, by creating a self-amplifying standing wave).

  • 1931: Physicist and academic Tullio Regge born. He and G. Ponzano will develop a quantum version of Regge calculus in three space-time dimensions now known as the Ponzano-Regge model; this will be the first of a whole series of state sum models for quantum gravity known as spin foam models.

    1931: Physicist and academic Tullio Regge born. He and G. Ponzano will develop a quantum version of Regge calculus in three space-time dimensions now known as the Ponzano-Regge model; this will be the first of a whole series of state sum models for quantum gravity known as spin foam models.

  • 1958: EDSAC, the first practical electronic digital stored-program computer, is shut down, having been superseded by EDSAC 2.

    1958: EDSAC, the first practical electronic digital stored-program computer, is shut down, having been superseded by EDSAC 2.

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