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File:Giuseppe Peano.jpg|link=Giuseppe Peano (nonfiction)|[[Giuseppe Peano (nonfiction)|Giuseppe Peano]] confidant that [[Peano curve (nonfiction)|Peano curve]] will contain [[Minotaur (nonfiction)|Minotaur]].
||1505: Achilles Gasser born ... physician and astrologer. He is now known as a well-connected humanist scholar, and supporter of both Copernicus and Rheticus. Pic.
File:Peano curve.svg|link=Peano curve (nonfiction)|[[Peano curve (nonfiction)|Peano curve]] holds key to trapping [[Minotaur (nonfiction)|Minotaur]], says [[Giuseppe Peano (nonfiction)|Peano]].
 
File:Minotauros.jpg|link=Minotaur (nonfiction)|[[Minotaur (nonfiction)|Minotaur]] not afraid of [[Giuseppe Peano (nonfiction)|Peano]]'s puny traps.
||1643: John Bainbridge dies ... astronomer and academic.
File:Binary counter.gif|link=Computer science (nonfiction)|"I owe my career in [[Computer science (nonfiction)|computer science]] to [[Maurice Wilkes (nonfiction)|Maurice Wilkes]]," says binary counter.
 
File:Maurice Vincent Wilkes.jpg|link=Maurice Wilkes (nonfiction)|[[Maurice Wilkes (nonfiction)|Maurice Wilkes]]:  "The realization came over me ... a good part of the remainder of my life was going to be spent in finding errors in my own programs."
File:Paul Guldin.jpg|link=Paul Guldin (nonfiction)|1643: Astronomer and mathematician [[Paul Guldin (nonfiction)|Paul Guldin]] dies. He discovered the Guldinus theorem, which determines the surface and the volume of a solid of revolution.
File:Components of a Nomogram.png|link=Nomogram (nonfiction)|[[Nomogram (nonfiction)|Nomogram]] doesn't promise exact answers, but does the best it can to provide approximations.  
 
File:Charles Babbage by Antoine Claudet c1847-51.jpg|link=Charles Babbage (nonfiction)|Smile on [[Charles Babbage (nonfiction)|Babbage]] indicates confidence in future, says new [[Babbage simulator]].
File:Rasmus_Bartholin.jpg|link=Rasmus Bartholin (nonfiction)|1688: Physician, mathematician, and physicist [[Rasmus Bartholin (nonfiction)|Rasmus Bartholin]] uses the double refraction of a light ray to detect and locate [[crimes against light]]. Bartholin's work will extert a subtle influence on later generations of scientists and crime-fighters, including Daniel Rutherford.
 
||1749: Daniel Rutherford born ... chemist and physician. Pic.
 
||1863: Physicist Alfred Perot born. Together with his colleague Charles Fabry he developed the Fabry–Pérot interferometer in 1899. Pic.
 
||1874: Oliver Strachey born ... British civil servant in the Foreign Office, was a cryptographer from World War I to World War II. Pic.
 
||1883: American Old West: Self-described "Black Bart the poet" gets away with his last stagecoach robbery, but leaves a clue that eventually leads to his capture.
 
||1896: Raymond Louis Wilder born ... mathematician, who specialized in topology and gradually acquired philosophical and anthropological interests. Pic.
 
||1896: Gustaf Tenggren born ... illustrator and animator ... Disney.
 
||1899: Gleb Wataghin born ... physicist and academic. Pic.
 
||1901: André Malraux born ... historian, theorist, and author
 
File:George Chrystal.jpg|link=George Chrystal (nonfiction)|1911: Mathematician [[George Chrystal (nonfiction)|George Chrystal]] dies. He was 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).
 
||1914: Georg Trakl dies ... Austrian-Polish pharmacist and poet. Pic.
 
||1916: John Alexander Simpson born ... worked as an experimental nuclear, and cosmic ray physicist who was deeply committed to educating the public and political leaders about science and its implications. Pic.
 
File:Aleksandr Ljapunov.jpg|link=Aleksandr Lyapunov (nonfiction)|1918: Mathematician and physicist [[Aleksandr Lyapunov (nonfiction)|Aleksandr Lyapunov]] dies. Lyapunov contributed to several fields, including differential equations, potential theory, dynamical systems and probability theory. His main preoccupations were the stability of equilibria and the motion of mechanical systems, and the study of particles under the influence of gravity.
 
||1929: M. A. R. Barker born ... professor of Urdu and South Asian Studies who created one of the first roleplaying games, Empire of the Petal Throne, and wrote several fantasy/science fantasy novels based in his associated world setting of Tékumel. Pic search.
 
||1930: William H. Dana born ... pilot, engineer, and astronaut ... one of twelve pilots who flew the North American X-15, an experimental spaceplane jointly operated by the Air Force and NASA. He was also selected for participation in the X-20 Dyna-Soar program. Pic.
 
||1933: Pierre Paul Émile Roux dies ... physician, bacteriologist, and immunologist ...  one of the closest collaborators of Louis Pasteur (1822–1895), a co-founder of the Pasteur Institute, and responsible for the institute's production of the anti-diphtheria serum, the first effective therapy for this disease. Pic.
 
||1957: Sputnik program: The Soviet Union launches Sputnik 2. On board is the first animal to enter orbit, a dog named Laika.
 
||1967: Mathematician Alexander Craig "Alec" Aitken dies. He introduced the concept of generalized least squares, along with now standard vector/matrix notation for the linear regression model. Pic.
 
||1973: Mariner program: NASA launches the Mariner 10 toward Mercury. On March 29, 1974, it becomes the first space probe to reach that planet.
 
||1979: Raffaele Bendandi dies ... clockmaker known for his predictions of earthquakes. Bendandi was self-taught and never published a verifiable scientific exposition of his theory. Pic.
 
||1980: Bronisław Knaster dies ... mathematician. He is known for his work in point-set topology and in particular for his discoveries in 1922 of the hereditarily indecomposable continuum or pseudo-arc and of the Knaster continuum, or buckethandle continuum. Pic.
 
||1982: Salang Tunnel fire, Afghanistan ... during the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan. Details are uncertain and officially the number of casualties was recorded as between 168-176 Soviet and Afghan soldiers and civilians. Despite this contemporary Western media claimed the incident may have been the deadliest known road accident, and one of the deadliest fires of modern times, with the death toll estimated at 2,700 to 3,000 people.
 
||1986: Iran–Contra affair: The Lebanese magazine Ash-Shiraa reports that the United States has been secretly selling weapons to Iran in order to secure the release of seven American hostages held by pro-Iranian groups in Lebanon.
 
File:Kryptos.jpg|link=Kryptos (nonfiction)|1990: Dedication ceremony for ''[[Kryptos (nonfiction)|Kryptos]]'', a sculpture commissioned by the Central Intelligence Agency. The sculpture is an encoded puzzle.
 
||1993: Léon Theremin dies ... physicist and engineer, invented the Theremin. Pic.
 
||2009: Carl Ballantine dies ... magician and actor. Pic.
 
||2012: Vasilii Sergeevich Vladimirov dies ... mathematician and mathematical physicist working in the fields of number theory, mathematical physics, quantum field theory, numerical analysis, generalized functions, several complex variables, p-adic analysis, multidimensional tauberian theorems. Pic.
 
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  • 1643: Astronomer and mathematician Paul Guldin dies. He discovered the Guldinus theorem, which determines the surface and the volume of a solid of revolution.

    1643: Astronomer and mathematician Paul Guldin dies. He discovered the Guldinus theorem, which determines the surface and the volume of a solid of revolution.

  • 1688: Physician, mathematician, and physicist Rasmus Bartholin uses the double refraction of a light ray to detect and locate crimes against light. Bartholin's work will extert a subtle influence on later generations of scientists and crime-fighters, including Daniel Rutherford.

    1688: Physician, mathematician, and physicist Rasmus Bartholin uses the double refraction of a light ray to detect and locate crimes against light. Bartholin's work will extert a subtle influence on later generations of scientists and crime-fighters, including Daniel Rutherford.

  • 1911: Mathematician George Chrystal dies. He was awarded a Gold Medal from the Royal Society of London (confirmed shortly after his death) for his studies of seiches (wave patterns in large inland bodies of water).

    1911: Mathematician George Chrystal dies. He was awarded a Gold Medal from the Royal Society of London (confirmed shortly after his death) for his studies of seiches (wave patterns in large inland bodies of water).

  • 1918: Mathematician and physicist Aleksandr Lyapunov dies. Lyapunov contributed to several fields, including differential equations, potential theory, dynamical systems and probability theory. His main preoccupations were the stability of equilibria and the motion of mechanical systems, and the study of particles under the influence of gravity.

    1918: Mathematician and physicist Aleksandr Lyapunov dies. Lyapunov contributed to several fields, including differential equations, potential theory, dynamical systems and probability theory. His main preoccupations were the stability of equilibria and the motion of mechanical systems, and the study of particles under the influence of gravity.

  • 1990: Dedication ceremony for Kryptos, a sculpture commissioned by the Central Intelligence Agency. The sculpture is an encoded puzzle.

    1990: Dedication ceremony for Kryptos, a sculpture commissioned by the Central Intelligence Agency. The sculpture is an encoded puzzle.

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