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| ||1484 – William Caxton prints his translation of Aesop's Fables.
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| ||1535 – Georg Tannstetter, Austrian mathematician, astronomer, and cartographer (b. 1482)
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| |File:Tycho Brahe.jpg|link=Tycho Brahe (nonfiction)|1569: Astronomer [[Tycho Brahe (nonfiction)|Tycho Brahe]] uses [[Gnomon algorithm functions]] make improved astronomical observations.
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| ||1656 – Nicolaas Hartsoeker, Dutch mathematician and physicist (d. 1725)
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| ||1698 – Prokop Diviš, Czech priest, scientist and inventor (d. 1765)
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| ||1753: Benjamin Thompson Rumford born ... physicist, government administrator, and a founder of the Royal Institution of Great Britain, London. Because he was a Redcoat officer and an English spy during the American revolution, he moved into exile in England. Through his investigations of heat he became one of the first scientists to declare that heat is a form of motion rather than a material substance, as was popularly believed until the mid-19th century. Among his numerous scientific contributions are the development of a calorimeter and a photometer. He invented a double boiler, a kitchen stove and a drip coffee pot. Pic.
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| ||1773 – Nathaniel Bowditch, American mathematician and navigator (d. 1838)
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| File:Nathaniel Bowditch.jpg|link=Nathaniel Bowditch (nonfiction)|1773: American captain and mathematician [[Nathaniel Bowditch (nonfiction)|Nathaniel Bowditch]] born. He will be a founder of modern maritime navigation; his book ''The New American Practical Navigator'', first published in 1802, will be carried on board every commissioned U.S. Naval vessel. | | File:Nathaniel Bowditch.jpg|link=Nathaniel Bowditch (nonfiction)|1773: American captain and mathematician [[Nathaniel Bowditch (nonfiction)|Nathaniel Bowditch]] born. He will be a founder of modern maritime navigation; his book ''The New American Practical Navigator'', first published in 1802, will be carried on board every commissioned U.S. Naval vessel. |
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| File:Wizard Jan Kochanowski.jpg|link=Jan_Kochanowski|1792: Poet and wizard [[Jan Kochanowski]] adapts [[Nebra sky disk (nonfiction)|Nebra sky disk]] for use as [[scrying engine]].
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| File:John Mudge.jpg|link=John Mudge (nonfiction)|1793: Physician and engineer [[John Mudge (nonfiction)|John Mudge]] dies. He was the first self-proclaimed civil engineer, and often regarded as the "father of civil engineering". | | File:John Mudge.jpg|link=John Mudge (nonfiction)|1793: Physician and engineer [[John Mudge (nonfiction)|John Mudge]] dies. He was the first self-proclaimed civil engineer, and often regarded as the "father of civil engineering". |
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| ||1793 – John Mudge, English physician and engineer (b. 1721)
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| ||1797 – James Hutton, Scottish geologist and physician (b. 1726)
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| ||Wolfgang von Kempelen (d. 26 March 1804) was a Hungarian author and inventor, known for his chess-playing "automaton" hoax The Turk and for his speaking machine. Pic.
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| ||1812 – A political cartoon in the Boston Gazette coins the term "gerrymander" to describe oddly shaped electoral districts designed to help incumbents win reelection.
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| File:George Chrystal.jpg|link=George Chrystal (nonfiction)|1851: Mathematician [[George Chrystal (nonfiction)|George Chrystal]] born. He will be awarded a Gold Medal from the Royal Society of London (confirmed shortly after his death) for his studies of [[Seiche (nonfiction)|seiches]] (wave patterns in large inland bodies of water). | | File:George Chrystal.jpg|link=George Chrystal (nonfiction)|1851: Mathematician [[George Chrystal (nonfiction)|George Chrystal]] born. He will be awarded a Gold Medal from the Royal Society of London (confirmed shortly after his death) for his studies of [[Seiche (nonfiction)|seiches]] (wave patterns in large inland bodies of water). |
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| ||1859 – Adolf Hurwitz, Jewish German-Swiss mathematician and academic (d. 1919)
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| ||Antonio Maria Bordoni (d. 26 March 1860) was an Italian mathematician who did research on mathematical analysis, geometry, and mechanics.
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| ||1875 – Max Abraham, Polish-German physicist and academic (d. 1922)
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| ||1884 – Georges Imbert, French chemical engineer and inventor (d. 1950)
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| ||Theodore Samuel Motzkin (26 March 1908 – 15 December 1970) was an Israeli-American mathematician.
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| File:Carl Gottfried Neumann.jpg|link=Carl Gottfried Neumann (nonfiction)|1909: Mathematician [[Carl Gottfried Neumann (nonfiction)|Carl Gottfried Neumann]] uses the finite propagation of electrodynamic actions to detect and prevent [[crimes against mathematical constants]].
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| ||1910 – Auguste Charlois, French astronomer (b. 1864)
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| ||1893 – James Bryant Conant, American chemist, academic, and diplomat, 1st United States Ambassador to West Germany (d. 1978)
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| ||1911 – Bernard Katz, German-English biophysicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2003)
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| File:Paul Erdős.jpg|link=Paul Erdős (nonfiction)|1913: Mathematician and academic [[Paul Erdős (nonfiction)|Paul Erdős]] born. He will firmly believe mathematics to be a social activity, living an itinerant lifestyle with the sole purpose of writing mathematical papers with other mathematicians. | | File:Paul Erdős.jpg|link=Paul Erdős (nonfiction)|1913: Mathematician and academic [[Paul Erdős (nonfiction)|Paul Erdős]] born. He will firmly believe mathematics to be a social activity, living an itinerant lifestyle with the sole purpose of writing mathematical papers with other mathematicians. |
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| ||1914 – Toru Kumon, Japanese mathematician and academic (d. 1995)
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| ||1916 – Christian B. Anfinsen, American biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1995)
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| ||1922 – Oscar Sala, Italian-Brazilian physicist and academic (d. 2010)
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| ||1922 – Guido Stampacchia, Italian mathematician and academic (d. 1978) known for his work on the theory of variational inequalities, the calculus of variation and the theory of elliptic partial differential equations.
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| ||1932 – Henry M. Leland, American machinist, inventor, engineer, automotive entrepreneur and founded of Cadillac and Lincoln (b. 1843)
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| ||József Kürschák (d. 26 March 1933) was a Hungarian mathematician noted for his work on trigonometry and for his creation of the theory of valuations. He proved that every valued field can be embedded into a complete valued field which is algebraically closed.
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| ||1938 – Anthony James Leggett, English-American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate b.
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| ||1940 – Wilhelm Anderson, German-Estonian astrophysicist (b. 1880)
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| ||1953 – Jonas Salk announced the successful test of his polio vaccine on a small group of adults and children (vaccination pictured). Pic.
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| ||1958 – The United States Army launches Explorer 3.
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| ||Edward Uhler Condon (d. March 26, 1974) was a distinguished American nuclear physicist, a pioneer in quantum mechanics, and a participant in the development of radar and nuclear weapons during World War II as part of the Manhattan Project. The Franck–Condon principle and the Slater–Condon rules are co-named after him.
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| ||1975 – The Biological Weapons Convention comes into force.
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| ||Paul Baran (d. March 26, 2011) was a Polish-born American engineer who was a pioneer in the development of computer networks. He was one of the two independent inventors of packet switched computer networking, and went on to start several companies and develop other technologies that are an essential part of modern digital communication. Pic.
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| ||2015 – Friedrich L. Bauer, German mathematician, computer scientist, and academic (b. 1924)
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