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||892 – Al-Tirmidhi, Persian scholar and hadith compiler (b. 824) | |||
||1410 – The first known mention of the Prague astronomical clock. | ||1410 – The first known mention of the Prague astronomical clock. | ||
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||1704 – Johann Andreas Segner, German mathematician, physicist, and physician (d. 1777) | ||1704 – Johann Andreas Segner, German mathematician, physicist, and physician (d. 1777) | ||
||1806 – Benjamin Banneker, American astronomer and surveyor (b. 1731) | |||
||1837 – Francis Wayland Parker, American theorist and academic (d. 1902) | |||
||1852 – Hermann Emil Fischer, German chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1919) | |||
||1858 – Mihajlo Pupin, Serbian-American physicist and chemist (d. 1935) | |||
File:Alfred Dreyfus age 76.jpg|1859: [[Alfred Dreyfus (nonfiction)|Alfred Dreyfus]] born. He will be wrongly convicted of treason during the [[Dreyfus affair (nonfiction)|Dreyfus affair]]. | File:Alfred Dreyfus age 76.jpg|1859: [[Alfred Dreyfus (nonfiction)|Alfred Dreyfus]] born. He will be wrongly convicted of treason during the [[Dreyfus affair (nonfiction)|Dreyfus affair]]. | ||
||1873 – Karl Schwarzschild, German physicist and astronomer (d. 1916) | |||
||1873 – Charles Rudolph Walgreen, American pharmacist and businessman, founded Walgreens (d. 1939) | |||
||1879 – Max von Laue, German physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1960) | |||
||1900 – Joseph Friedman, American inventor, invented the bendy straw (d. 1982) | |||
|File:Georg Cantor 1894.png|link=Georg Cantor (nonfiction)|1917: Mathematician and philosopher [[Georg Cantor (nonfiction)|Georg Cantor]] publishes new [[Set theory (nonfiction)|theory of sets]] derived from [[Gnomon algorithm functions]]. Colleagues hail it as "a magisterial contribution to science and art of detecting and preventing [[crimes against mathematical constants]]." | |File:Georg Cantor 1894.png|link=Georg Cantor (nonfiction)|1917: Mathematician and philosopher [[Georg Cantor (nonfiction)|Georg Cantor]] publishes new [[Set theory (nonfiction)|theory of sets]] derived from [[Gnomon algorithm functions]]. Colleagues hail it as "a magisterial contribution to science and art of detecting and preventing [[crimes against mathematical constants]]." | ||
||1918 – E. Howard Hunt, American CIA officer and author (d. 2007) | |||
||1933 – Peter Mansfield, English physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2017) | |||
||1936 – Generators at Boulder Dam (later renamed to Hoover Dam) begin to generate electricity from the Colorado River and transmit it 266 miles to Los Angeles. | ||1936 – Generators at Boulder Dam (later renamed to Hoover Dam) begin to generate electricity from the Colorado River and transmit it 266 miles to Los Angeles. | ||
||1943 – Pieter Zeeman, Dutch physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1865) | |||
||1962 – Milan Vidmar, Slovenian chess player and engineer (b. 1885) | |||
||1967 – Cyril Norman Hinshelwood, English chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1897) | |||
||1987 – William P. Murphy, American physician and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1892) | |||
||1988 – Felix Wankel, German engineer, invented the Wankel engine (b. 1902) | |||
||2009 – First lunar impact of the Centaur and LCROSS spacecrafts as part of NASA's Lunar Precursor Robotic Program. | ||2009 – First lunar impact of the Centaur and LCROSS spacecrafts as part of NASA's Lunar Precursor Robotic Program. | ||
||2010 – Maurice Allais, French economist and physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1911) | |||
File:Similar Golden Rectangles.png|link=Golden ratio (nonfiction)|2017: Artificial intelligence based on the [[Golden ratio (nonfiction)|Golden ratio]] develops genuine gratitude for [[Michael Maestlin (nonfiction)|Michael Maestlin]]'s approximation of the [[Golden ratio (nonfiction)|Golden ratio]]. | File:Similar Golden Rectangles.png|link=Golden ratio (nonfiction)|2017: Artificial intelligence based on the [[Golden ratio (nonfiction)|Golden ratio]] develops genuine gratitude for [[Michael Maestlin (nonfiction)|Michael Maestlin]]'s approximation of the [[Golden ratio (nonfiction)|Golden ratio]]. | ||
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1581: Mathematician and linguist Claude Gaspard Bachet de Méziriac born. He will do work in number theory and find a method of constructing magic squares.
1582: Astronomer and mathematician Michael Maestlin uses Copernican system of the solar system to predict imminent outbreak of crimes against mathematical constants.
1859: Alfred Dreyfus born. He will be wrongly convicted of treason during the Dreyfus affair.
2017: Artificial intelligence based on the Golden ratio develops genuine gratitude for Michael Maestlin's approximation of the Golden ratio.
