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| ||1572: Girolamo Maggi dies ... polymath. | | File:Theodor de Bry self portrait 1597.jpg|1598: Engraver, goldsmith, and publisher '''[[Theodor de Bry (nonfiction)|Theodor de Bry]]''' dies. de Bry gained fame for his depictions of early European expeditions. Although de Bry never visited the Americas, most of his books are based on first-hand observations by explorers. |
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| ||1598: Theodor de Bry dies ... engraver, goldsmith, and publisher. | | File:Wilhelm Röntgen.jpg|link=Wilhelm Röntgen (nonfiction)|1845: Engineer and physicist '''[[Wilhelm Röntgen (nonfiction)|Wilhelm Röntgen]]''' born. He will win the first Nobel Prize in Physics, for the discovery of X-rays. |
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| ||1809: Georges-Eugène Haussmann born ... engineer, urban planner, and politician. | | File:James Dewar.jpg|link=James Dewar (nonfiction)|1923: Chemist and physicist '''[[James Dewar (nonfiction)|James Dewar]]''' dies. He invented the vacuum flask, which he used in conjunction with extensive research into the liquefaction of gases. |
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| ||1824: Johann Wilhelm Hittorf born ... physicist who was born in Bonn and died in Münster, Germany. Hittorf was the first to compute the electricity-carrying capacity of charged atoms and molecules (ions), an important factor in understanding electrochemical reactions. He formulated ion transport numbers and the first method for their measurements. | | File:Carl Gottfried Neumann.jpg|link=Carl Gottfried Neumann (nonfiction)|1925: Mathematician '''[[Carl Gottfried Neumann (nonfiction)|Carl Gottfried Neumann]]''' dies. He will studied physics with his father, and later worked as a mathematician, dealing almost exclusively with problems arising from physics. |
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| ||1929: Samuil Shatunovsky dies ... mathematician. He worked on several topics in mathematical analysis and algebra, such as group theory, number theory and geometry. Independently from Hilbert, he developed a similar axiomatic theory and applied it in geometry, algebra, Galois theory and analysis. Pic. | | File:George Tooker.jpg|link=George Tooker (nonfiction)|2011: Artist '''[[George Tooker (nonfiction)|George Tooker]]''' dies. Tooker's paintings depicted his subjects naturally, as in a photograph, but the images used flat tones, an ambiguous perspective, and alarming juxtapositions to suggest an imagined or dreamed reality. |
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| ||1836: Texas Revolution: On the orders of General Antonio López de Santa Anna, the Mexican army massacres 342 Texas POWs at Goliad, Texas.
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| File:Wilhelm Röntgen.jpg|link=Wilhelm Röntgen (nonfiction)|1845: Engineer and physicist [[Wilhelm Röntgen (nonfiction)|Wilhelm Röntgen]] born. He will win the first Nobel Prize in Physics, for the discovery of X-rays.
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| ||1847: Otto Wallach born ... chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate.
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| ||1850: Wilhelm Beer dies ... astronomer and banker.
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| ||1854: Giovanni Battista Grassi born ... physician, zoologist, and entomologist.
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| ||1855: William Libbey born ... target shooter, colonel, mountaineer, geographer, geologist, and archaeologist (d. 1927)
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| ||1857: Karl Pearson born ... mathematician, eugenicist, and academic.
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| ||1863: Henry Royce born ... engineer and businessman, founded Rolls-Royce Limited.
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| ||1873: Tommy Bonnesen born ... mathematician, known for Bonnesen's inequality.
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| ||1882: Thomas Graham Brown born ... mountaineer and physiologist.
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| ||1884: A mob in Cincinnati, Ohio, attacks members of a jury which had returned a verdict of manslaughter in what was seen as a clear case of murder; over the next few days the mob would riot and eventually destroy the courthouse.
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| ||1888: The Blessed Francesco Faà di Bruno dies ... priest and advocate of the poor, a leading mathematician of his era and a noted religious musician. In 1988 he was beatified by Pope John Paul II. He is the eponym of Faà di Bruno's formula. Pic.
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| ||1890: Carl Jacob Löwig dies ... chemist and academic.
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| ||1897: Douglas Hartree born ... mathematician and physicist.
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| ||1897: Fred Keating born ... magician, stage and film actor.
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| ||1899: Herbert Arthur Stuart born ... physicist and academic.
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| ||1902: Émile Benveniste born ... linguist and semiotician.
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| ||1905: László Kalmár born ... mathematician and Professor at the University of Szeged. Kalmár is considered the founder of mathematical logic and theoretical computer science in Hungary.
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| ||1910: Alexander Emanuel Agassiz dies ... ichthyologist, zoologist, and engineer.
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| File:James Dewar.jpg|link=James Dewar (nonfiction)|1923: Chemist and physicist [[James Dewar (nonfiction)|James Dewar]] dies. He invented the vacuum flask, which he used in conjunction with extensive research into the liquefaction of gases.
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| ||1924: Margaret K. Butler born ... mathematician and computer programmer. Pic: https://www.anl.gov/article/in-memoriam-the-remarkable-career-of-margaret-butler
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| File:Carl Gottfried Neumann.jpg|link=Carl Gottfried Neumann (nonfiction)|1925: Mathematician [[Carl Gottfried Neumann (nonfiction)|Carl Gottfried Neumann]] dies. He will studied physics with his father, and later worked as a mathematician, dealing almost exclusively with problems arising from physics.
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| ||1924: Charlotte Cynthia Barnum dies ... mathematician and social activist, was the first woman to receive a Ph.D in mathematics from Yale University. No pic (tried), but visit library, try harder, she is interesting.
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| ||1945: Vincent Hugo Bendix dies ... engineer and businessman, founded Bendix Corporation.
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| ||1954: Nuclear weapons testing: The Romeo shot of Operation Castle is detonated at Bikini Atoll. Yield: 11 megatons.
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| ||1967: Jaroslav Heyrovský dies ... chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate.
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| File:George E P Box.jpg|link=George E. P. Box (nonfiction)|1975: Statistician [[George E. P. Box (nonfiction)|George E. P. Box]] publishes new class of [[Gnomon algorithm functions]], based on time-series analysis and Bayesian inference, which detect and prevent [[crimes against mathematical constants]].
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| ||1968: Yuri Gagarin dies ... Russian colonel, pilot, and astronaut.
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| ||1977: Tenerife airport disaster: Two Boeing 747 airliners collide on a foggy runway on Tenerife in the Canary Islands, killing 583 (all 248 on KLM and 335 on Pan Am). Sixty-one survived on the Pan Am flight. This is the worst aviation accident in history.
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| ||1980: Silver Thursday: A steep fall in silver prices, resulting from the Hunt Brothers attempting to corner the market in silver, leads to panic on commodity and futures exchanges.
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| ||1993: Italian former minister and Christian Democracy leader Giulio Andreotti is accused of mafia allegiance by the tribunal of Palermo.
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| File:George Tooker.jpg|link=George Tooker (nonfiction)|2011: Artist [[George Tooker (nonfiction)|George Tooker]] dies. His paintings depicted his subjects naturally, as in a photograph, but the images used flat tones, an ambiguous perspective, and alarming juxtapositions to suggest an imagined or dreamed reality.
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| File:Diagramaceous soil bingo algorithm harvest.jpg|link=Diagramaceous soil|2002: Tokens harvested from [[Diagramaceous soil]] used to detect and prevent [[crimes against mathematical constants]].
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