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File:Omar Khayyam.jpg|link=Omar Khayyam (nonfiction)|1131: Polymath, scholar, mathematician, astronomer, philosopher, and poet [[Omar Khayyam (nonfiction)|Omar Khayyám]] dies. | File:Omar Khayyam.jpg|link=Omar Khayyam (nonfiction)|1131: Polymath, scholar, mathematician, astronomer, philosopher, and poet [[Omar Khayyam (nonfiction)|Omar Khayyám]] dies. | ||
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File: | ||1577: Achilles Gasser dies ... physician and astrologer. He is now known as a well-connected humanist scholar, and supporter of both Copernicus and Rheticus. Pic. | ||
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File: | ||1580: Samuel Argall born ... adventurer and naval officer. No DOB. Pic search. | ||
||1576: Georg Joachim Rheticus dies ... mathematician and cartographer. Pic: https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/5583107.Georg_Joachim_Rheticus | |||
||1679: Thomas Hobbes dies ... philosopher, considered to be one of the founders of modern political philosophy. Hobbes is best known for his 1651 book ''Leviathan'', which expounded an influential formulation of social contract theory. In addition to political philosophy, Hobbes also contributed to a diverse array of other fields, including history, jurisprudence, geometry, the physics of gases, theology, ethics, and general philosophy. Pic. | |||
||1680: Thomas Bartholin dies ... physician, mathematician, and theologian. He is best known for his work in the discovery of the lymphatic system in humans and for his advancements of the theory of refrigeration anesthesia, being the first to describe it scientifically. Pic. | |||
||1750: Henri Jean-Baptiste Grégoire (often referred to as the Abbé Grégoire) born ... was French Catholic priest, Constitutional bishop of Blois and a revolutionary leader. He was an ardent abolitionist of human slavery and supporter of universal suffrage. He was a founding member of the Bureau des longitudes, the Institut de France, and the Conservatoire national des arts et métiers. Pic. | |||
||1791: The first edition of ''The Observer'', the world's first Sunday newspaper, is published. | |||
File:Luigi Galvani.jpg|link=Luigi Galvani (nonfiction)|1798: Physician and physicist [[Luigi Galvani (nonfiction)|Luigi Galvani]] dies. In 1780, he discovered that the muscles of dead frogs' legs twitch when struck by an electrical spark. | |||
||1806: John Thomas Graves born ... jurist and mathematician. He was a friend of William Rowan Hamilton, and is credited both with inspiring Hamilton to discover the quaternions and with personally discovering the octonions, which he called the octaves. Pic: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:John_T_Graves.jpg | |||
||1816: Benjamin Silliman Jr. born ... professor of chemistry at Yale University and instrumental in developing the oil industry. Pic. | |||
||1850: William Sturgeon dies ... physicist, invented the electric motor. Pic. | |||
||1875: Notorious New York City politician Boss Tweed escapes from prison; he is later recaptured in Spain. Pic. | |||
||1886: Ludwig Georg Elias Moses Bieberbach born ... mathematician and Nazi. Pic. | |||
File:John Tyndall 1878.jpg|link=John Tyndall (nonfiction)|1820: Physicist [[John Tyndall (nonfiction)|John Tyndall]] dies of accidental chloral hydrate overdose. He studied diamagnetism, and made discoveries in the realms of infrared radiation and the physical properties of air. | |||
||1898: Sir K. S. Krishnan dies ... physicist. He was a co-discoverer of Raman scattering, for which his mentor C. V. Raman was awarded the 1930 Nobel Prize in Physics. Pic. | |||
||1935: Charles Richet dies ... physiologist, bacteriologist and pathologist who was awarded the 1913 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine. He coined (1902) the term "anaphylaxis" meaning "against protection" to describe the subject of his research, when he found a second vaccinating dose of sea anemone toxin caused a dog's death. Instead of producing protection, as expected in the normal response to vaccination, the first dose had produced a life-threatening sensitivity. This led to an understanding a variety of allergic reactions, hay-fever and asthma. His other interests included aviation: attracted by Marey's experiments on bird flight, Richet participated in the design and construction of one of the first airplanes to leave the ground under its own power. Pic. | |||
||1945: Thomas Hunt Morgan dies ... evolutionary biologist, geneticist, embryologist, and science author who won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1933 for discoveries elucidating the role that the chromosome plays in heredity. Pic. | |||
||1948: Frank Benford dies ... physicist and engineer. Pic search. | |||
File:Fred Hampton dead body.jpg|link=Fred Hampton (nonfiction)|1969: Black Panther Party members [[Fred Hampton (nonfiction)|Fred Hampton]] and Mark Clark are shot and killed during a raid by 14 Chicago police officers. In January 1970, a coroner's jury will hold an inquest and rule the deaths to be justifiable homicide. Critics will contend that Hampton was assassinated. | |||
File:Pioneer 10 construction.jpg|link=Pioneer 10 (nonfiction)|1973: The ''[[Pioneer 10 (nonfiction)|Pioneer 10]]'' space probe makes its closest approach to the planet Jupiter, at a range of about 132,252 kilometers (82,178 mi). | |||
||1978: Samuel Abraham Goudsmit dies ... physicist famous for jointly proposing the concept of electron spin with George Eugene Uhlenbeck in 1925. Pic. | |||
||1988: Osman Achmatowicz dies ... chemist and academic. He devised a new method of degradation using hydrogenolysis of quaternary ammonium salts containing nitrogen in allyl position, in the presence of palladinized charcoal as catalyst. This method became crucial in studies on organic compounds and was subsequently modified by other research workers over rupture of carbon-oxygen bonds. Pic. | |||
||1998: The Unity Module, the second module of the International Space Station, is launched. | |||
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1131: Polymath, scholar, mathematician, astronomer, philosopher, and poet Omar Khayyám dies.
1798: Physician and physicist Luigi Galvani dies. In 1780, he discovered that the muscles of dead frogs' legs twitch when struck by an electrical spark.
1820: Physicist John Tyndall dies of accidental chloral hydrate overdose. He studied diamagnetism, and made discoveries in the realms of infrared radiation and the physical properties of air.
1969: Black Panther Party members Fred Hampton and Mark Clark are shot and killed during a raid by 14 Chicago police officers. In January 1970, a coroner's jury will hold an inquest and rule the deaths to be justifiable homicide. Critics will contend that Hampton was assassinated.
1973: The Pioneer 10 space probe makes its closest approach to the planet Jupiter, at a range of about 132,252 kilometers (82,178 mi).