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||1505 – Achilles Gasser, German physician and astrologer (d. 1577)
||1643 – John Bainbridge, English astronomer and academic (b. 1582)
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: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:The Eel Hates Peter Aal.jpg|link=[[The Eel Hates Peter Aal]]|''[[The Eel Hates Peter Aal]]'' depicts Supervillain and art critic [[The Eel]] and ''[[Bernd Maro (nonfiction)|Peter Aal]]''.
 
File:Cornelius Drebbel.jpg|link=Cornelius Drebbel (nonfiction)|[[Cornelius Drebbel (nonfiction)|Cornelius Drebbel]] warns [[The Eel]] to "let ''Peter Aal'' be".
||1749 – Daniel Rutherford, Scottish chemist and physician (d. 1819)
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]].
 
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]].
||1863 – Alfred Perot, French physicist and academic (d. 1925)
File:Minotauros.jpg|link=Minotaur (nonfiction)|[[Minotaur (nonfiction)|Minotaur]] not afraid of [[Giuseppe Peano (nonfiction)|Peano]]'s puny traps.
 
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.
||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.
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:Components of a Nomogram.png|link=Nomogram (nonfiction)|[[Nomogram (nonfiction)|Nomogram]] doesn't promise exact answers, but it works hard to provide approximations.  
||1896 – Gustaf Tenggren, Swedish-American illustrator and animator (d. 1970) Disney
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:Plutonium pellet.jpg|link=Plutonium (nonfiction)|2016: [[Plutonium (nonfiction)|Plutonium]] write autobiography, reveals inside story of the [[Manhattan Project]].
||1899 – Gleb Wataghin, Ukrainian-Italian physicist and academic (d. 1986)
 
||1901 – André Malraux, French historian, theorist, and author (d. 1976)
 
||1914 – Georg Trakl, Austrian-Polish pharmacist and poet (b. 1887)
 
||1918 – Aleksandr Lyapunov, Russian mathematician and physicist (b. 1857)
 
||1933 – Pierre Paul Émile Roux, French physician, bacteriologist, and immunologist (b. 1853)
 
||1957 – Sputnik program: The Soviet Union launches Sputnik 2. On board is the first animal to enter orbit, a dog named Laika.
 
||1973 – Mariner program: NASA launches the Mariner 10 toward Mercury. On March 29, 1974, it becomes the first space probe to reach that planet.
 
||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.
 
||1993 – Léon Theremin, Russian physicist and engineer, invented the Theremin (b. 1895)
 
File:The Eel Hates Peter Aal.jpg|link=[[The Eel Hates Peter Aal]]|2017: ''[[The Eel Hates Peter Aal]]'' sells for two and a half million dollars.
 
|File:Cornelius Drebbel.jpg|link=Cornelius Drebbel (nonfiction)|[[Cornelius Drebbel (nonfiction)|Cornelius Drebbel]] warns [[The Eel]] to "let ''Peter Aal'' be".
|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]].
|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.
|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:Components of a Nomogram.png|link=Nomogram (nonfiction)|[[Nomogram (nonfiction)|Nomogram]] doesn't promise exact answers, but it works hard 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:Plutonium pellet.jpg|link=Plutonium (nonfiction)|2016: [[Plutonium (nonfiction)|Plutonium]] write autobiography, reveals inside story of the [[Manhattan Project]].
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