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| File:Thābit's Arabic translation of Apollonius' Conics.jpg|link=Thābit ibn Qurra (nonfiction)|882: Physician, astronomer, mathematician, and crime-fighter [[Thābit ibn Qurra (nonfiction)|Thābit ibn Qurra]] publishes new theory of [[Gnomon algorithm functions]] with applications in detecting and preventing [[crimes against mathematical constants]].
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| ||1201 – Nasir al-Din al-Tusi, Persian astronomer, biologist and theologian (d. 1274)
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| File:Giordano Bruno.jpg|link=Giordano Bruno (nonfiction)|1600: Dominican friar, philosopher, mathematician, poet, and cosmological theorist [[Giordano Bruno (nonfiction)|Giordano Bruno]] is burned at the stake. | | File:Giordano Bruno.jpg|link=Giordano Bruno (nonfiction)|1600: Dominican friar, philosopher, mathematician, poet, and cosmological theorist [[Giordano Bruno (nonfiction)|Giordano Bruno]] is burned at the stake. |
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| ||1723 – Tobias Mayer, German astronomer and academic (d. 1762)
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| ||1740 – Horace-Bénédict de Saussure, Swiss physicist and meteorologist (d. 1799)
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| ||1754 – Nicolas Baudin, French cartographer and explorer (d. 1803)
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| ||1781 – René Laennec, French physician, invented the stethoscope (d. 1826)
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| File:Confederate submarine H. L. Hunley.jpg|link=H. L. Hunley (nonfiction)|1863: Confederate submarine ''[[H. L. Hunley (nonfiction)|H. L. Hunley]]'' engages and sinks the Union warship USS ''Housatonic''. This is the first known instance of a submarine engaging and sinking a warship. | | File:Confederate submarine H. L. Hunley.jpg|link=H. L. Hunley (nonfiction)|1863: Confederate submarine ''[[H. L. Hunley (nonfiction)|H. L. Hunley]]'' engages and sinks the Union warship USS ''Housatonic''. This is the first known instance of a submarine engaging and sinking a warship. |
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| File:Marius Sophus Lie.jpg|link=Marius Sophus Lie (nonfiction)|1864: Mathematician and crime-fighter [[Marius Sophus Lie (nonfiction)|Marius Sophus Lie]] publishes new theory of continuous symmetry with applications in the detection and prevention of [[crimes against mathematical constants]].
| | File:Adolf Abraham Halevi Fraenkel.jpg|link=Abraham Fraenkel (nonfiction)|1891: Mathematician [[Abraham Fraenkel (nonfiction)|Abraham Fraenkel]] born. He will contribute to axiomatic set theory, and publish a biography of [[Georg Cantor (nonfiction)|Georg Cantor]]. |
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| ||1874 – Adolphe Quetelet, Belgian astronomer, mathematician, and sociologist (b. 1796)
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| ||Friedrich Wilhelm August Argelander (d. 17 February 1875) was a German astronomer. He is known for his determinations of stellar brightnesses, positions, and distances.
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| ||1888 – Otto Stern, German-American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1969)
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| ||1891 – Abraham Fraenkel, German-Israeli mathematician and academic (d. 1965)
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| ||1890 – Ronald Fisher, English-Australian statistician, biologist, and geneticist (d. 1962)
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| ||Christopher Latham Sholes (d. February 17, 1890) was an American inventor who invented the QWERTY keyboard, and along with Frank Haven Hall, Samuel W. Soule, Carlos Glidden and John Pratt, has been contended as one of the inventors of the first typewriter in the United States.
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| File:Adolf Abraham Halevi Fraenkel.jpg|link=Abraham Fraenkel (nonfiction)|1891: Mathematician [[Abraham Fraenkel (nonfiction)|Abraham Fraenkel]] born. He will contribute to axiomatic set theory, and publish a biography of [[Georg Cantor (nonfiction)|George Cantor]]. | |
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| ||Gregor Wentzel (b. February 17, 1898) was a German physicist known for development of quantum mechanics. Wentzel, Hendrik Kramers, and Léon Brillouin developed the Wentzel–Kramers–Brillouin approximation in 1926. In his early years, he contributed to X-ray spectroscopy, but then broadened out to make contributions to quantum mechanics, quantum electrodynamics, and meson theory.
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| ||1905 – Rózsa Péter, Hungarian mathematician (d. 1977)
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| ||Henrik Selberg (b. 1906) was a Norwegian mathematician. He was born in Bergen as the son of Ole Michael Ludvigsen Selberg and Anna Kristina Brigtsdatter Skeie. He was a brother of Sigmund, Arne and Atle Selberg. He was appointed professor at the University of Oslo from 1962 to 1973. He is best known for his works on complex functions and potential theory.
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| ||1918 – Jacqueline Ferrand, French mathematician (d. 2014)
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| ||1921 – Duane Gish, American biochemist and academic (d. 2013)
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| ||John Lewis Selfridge (b. February 17, 1927), was an American mathematician who contributed to the fields of analytic number theory, computational number theory, and combinatorics.
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| ||1930 – Benjamin Fain, Ukrainian-Israeli physicist and academic (d. 2013)
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| ||1933 – Larry Jennings, American magician and author (d. 1997)
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| ||1934 – Siegbert Tarrasch, German chess player and theoretician (b. 1862)
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| ||1942 – Huey P. Newton, American activist, co-founded the Black Panther Party (d. 1989)
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| ||1959 – Project Vanguard: Vanguard 2: The first weather satellite is launched to measure cloud-cover distribution.
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| ||Heinrich Franz Friedrich Tietze (d. February 17, 1964) was an Austrian mathematician, famous for the Tietze extension theorem on functions from topological spaces to the real numbers. He also developed the Tietze transformations for group presentations, and was the first to pose the group isomorphism problem.
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| ||1965 – Project Ranger: The Ranger 8 probe launches on its mission to photograph the Mare Tranquillitatis region of the Moon in preparation for the manned Apollo missions. Mare Tranquillitatis or the "Sea of Tranquility" would become the site chosen for the Apollo 11 lunar landing.
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| ||Michel Loève (d. February 17, 1979) was a French-American probabilist and mathematical statistician. He is known in mathematical statistics and probability theory for the Karhunen–Loève theorem and Karhunen–Loève transform. Pic.
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| ||1980: The Derrynaflan Chalice is an 8th- or 9th-century chalice, that was found as part of the Derrynaflan Hoard of five liturgical vessels. The discovery was made near Killenaule, County Tipperary in Ireland.
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| ||1996 – NASA's Discovery Program begins as the NEAR Shoemaker spacecraft lifts off on the first mission ever to orbit and land on an asteroid, 433 Eros.
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| ||William David McElroy (d. 17 February 1999) was an American biochemist and academic administrator. He initiated an independent research program in bioluminescence, recruiting students to collect fireflies to perform experiments. He discovered the key role that luciferase and adenosine triphosphate (ATP) play in the process. Pic.
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| File:George Plimpton 1993.jpg|link=George Plimpton (nonfiction)|2003: [[George Plimpton (nonfiction)|George Plimpton]] publishes first in prize-winning series of articles on [[high-energy literature]].
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| File:Nicolaas de Bruijn.jpg|link=Nicolaas Govert de Bruijn (nonfiction)|2012: Mathematician and theorist [[Nicolaas Govert de Bruijn (nonfiction)|Nicolaas Govert de Bruijn]] dies. He made contributions in the fields of analysis, number theory, combinatorics, and logic. | | File:No Escape From Telephones.jpg|link=No Escape From Telephones|1953: Premiere of '''''[[No Escape From Telephones]]''''', an American science fiction thriller film about a police officer (Dick Tracy) who must bring a deranged computer (HAL 9000) to justice. |
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| ||Father Magnus J. Wenninger OSB (d. February 17, 2017) was an American mathematician who worked on constructing polyhedron models, and wrote the first book on their construction. | | File:Dawn spacecraft model.png|link=Dawn (spacecraft) (nonfiction)|2009: The ''[[Dawn (spacecraft) (nonfiction)|Dawn]]'' space probe makes its closest approach to Mars during a successful gravity assist toward Vesta. ''[[Dawn (spacecraft) (nonfiction)|Dawn]]'' will study Vesta and Ceres, two of the three known protoplanets of the asteroid belt. |
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| File:The Eel Discovers Time Travel.jpg|link=The Eel Discovers Time Travel|2018: Steganographic analysis of ''[[The Eel Discovers Time Travel]]'' reveals five hundred gigabytes of encrypted data.
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