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||1514 – Andreas Vesalius, Belgian anatomist, physician, and author (d. 1564)
||1514: Andreas Vesalius born ... anatomist, physician, and author.


||1552 – Simon Forman, English occultist and astrologer (d. 1611)
||1552: Simon Forman born ... occultist and astrologer.


File:Ludolf van Ceulen.jpg|link=Ludolph van Ceulen (nonfiction)|1610: Mathematician and fencer [[Ludolph van Ceulen (nonfiction)|Ludolph van Ceulen]] dies. He spent a major part of his life calculating the numerical value of the mathematical constant π.
File:Ludolf van Ceulen.jpg|link=Ludolph van Ceulen (nonfiction)|1610: Mathematician and fencer [[Ludolph van Ceulen (nonfiction)|Ludolph van Ceulen]] dies. He spent a major part of his life calculating the numerical value of the mathematical constant π.


||1679 – Giovanni Alfonso Borelli, Italian physiologist and physicist (b. 1608) Giovanni Alfonso Borelli (d. 31 December 1679) was a Renaissance Italian physiologist, physicist, and mathematician. He contributed to the modern principle of scientific investigation by continuing Galileo's practice of testing hypotheses against observation.
||1679: Giovanni Alfonso Borelli dies ... physiologist and physicist ... contributed to the modern principle of scientific investigation by continuing Galileo's practice of testing hypotheses against observation.


||1691 – Robert Boyle, Irish chemist and physicist (b. 1627)
||1691: Robert Boyle dies ... chemist and physicist.


||1714 – Arima Yoriyuki, Japanese mathematician and educator (d. 1783)
||1714: Arima Yoriyuki born ... mathematician and educator.


||1719 – John Flamsteed, English astronomer and academic (b. 1646)
||1719: John Flamsteed dies ... astronomer and academic.


File:Johann Bernoulli.jpg|link=|1738: Mathematician and crime-fighter [[Johann Bernoulli (nonfiction)|Johann Bernouli]] publishes new theory of infinitesimal calculus which has applications in detecting and preventing [[crimes against mathematical constants]].
File:Johann Bernoulli.jpg|link=|1738: Mathematician and crime-fighter [[Johann Bernoulli (nonfiction)|Johann Bernouli]] publishes new theory of infinitesimal calculus which has applications in detecting and preventing [[crimes against mathematical constants]].


||1776 – Johann Spurzheim, German-American physician and phrenologist (d. 1832)
||1776: Johann Spurzheim born ... physician and phrenologist.


||1811: Patrick Wilson (generally known as Peter Wilson) astronomer, type-founder, mathematician and meteorologist dies.
||1811: Patrick Wilson (generally known as Peter Wilson) astronomer, type-founder, mathematician and meteorologist dies.
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|File:Vandal Savage solar eclipse.jpg|link=Vandal Savage (nonfiction)|1854: [[Vandal Savage (nonfiction)|Vandal Savage]] uses solar eclipse to wish you a Happy New Year.
|File:Vandal Savage solar eclipse.jpg|link=Vandal Savage (nonfiction)|1854: [[Vandal Savage (nonfiction)|Vandal Savage]] uses solar eclipse to wish you a Happy New Year.


||1864 – Robert Grant Aitken, American astronomer and academic (d. 1951)
||1864: Robert Grant Aitken born ... astronomer and academic.


||James David Forbes FRS FRSE FGS (d. 31 December 1868) was a Scottish physicist and glaciologist who worked extensively on the conduction of heat and seismology. He invented the seismometer.
||1868: James David Forbes ... physicist and glaciologist who worked extensively on the conduction of heat and seismology. He invented the seismometer.


||1878 – Karl Benz, working in Mannheim, Germany, filed for a patent on his first reliable two-stroke gas engine, and he was granted the patent in 1879.
||1878: Karl Benz, working in Mannheim, Germany, filed for a patent on his first reliable two-stroke gas engine, and he was granted the patent in 1879.


File:Thomas Edison.jpg|link=Thomas Edison (nonfiction)|1879: [[Thomas Edison (nonfiction)|Thomas Edison]] demonstrates incandescent lighting to the public for the first time, in Menlo Park, New Jersey.
File:Thomas Edison.jpg|link=Thomas Edison (nonfiction)|1879: [[Thomas Edison (nonfiction)|Thomas Edison]] demonstrates incandescent lighting to the public for the first time, in Menlo Park, New Jersey.
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File:Thomas Joannes Stieltjes.jpg|link=Thomas Joannes Stieltjes (nonfiction)|1894: Mathematician [[Thomas Joannes Stieltjes (nonfiction)|Thomas Joannes Stieltjes]] dies. He worked on almost all branches of analysis, continued fractions and number theory, and was called "the father of the analytic theory of continued fractions."
File:Thomas Joannes Stieltjes.jpg|link=Thomas Joannes Stieltjes (nonfiction)|1894: Mathematician [[Thomas Joannes Stieltjes (nonfiction)|Thomas Joannes Stieltjes]] dies. He worked on almost all branches of analysis, continued fractions and number theory, and was called "the father of the analytic theory of continued fractions."


||Carl Ludwig Siegel (b. December 31, 1896) was a German mathematician specialising in number theory and celestial mechanics. He is known for, amongst other things, his contributions to the Thue–Siegel–Roth theorem in Diophantine approximation and the Siegel mass formula for quadratic forms.
||1896: Carl Ludwig Siegel born ... mathematician specializing in number theory and celestial mechanics. He is known for, amongst other things, his contributions to the Thue–Siegel–Roth theorem in Diophantine approximation and the Siegel mass formula for quadratic forms.


||Lazar Aronovich Lyusternik (b. 31 December 1899) was a Soviet mathematician. He is famous for his work in topology and differential geometry, to which he applied the variational principle.
||1899: Lazar Aronovich Lyusternik born ... mathematician. He is famous for his work in topology and differential geometry, to which he applied the variational principle.


File:Hannibal Goodwin.jpg|link=Hannibal Goodwin (nonfiction)|1900: Priest and inventor [[Hannibal Goodwin (nonfiction)|Hannibal Goodwin]] dies.  He invented and patented rolled celluloid photographic film.
File:Hannibal Goodwin.jpg|link=Hannibal Goodwin (nonfiction)|1900: Priest and inventor [[Hannibal Goodwin (nonfiction)|Hannibal Goodwin]] dies.  He invented and patented rolled celluloid photographic film.


||1905 – Helen Dodson Prince, American astronomer and academic (d. 2002)
||1905: Helen Dodson Prince born ... astronomer and academic.


||1928 – Siné, French cartoonist (d. 2016)
||1928: Siné born ... cartoonist.


||Jacques-Arsène d'Arsonval (d. 1940) was a French physician, physicist, and inventor of the moving-coil D'Arsonval galvanometer and the thermocouple ammeter. D'Arsonval was an important contributor to the emerging field of electrophysiology, the study of the effects of electricity on biological organisms, in the nineteenth century.
||1940: Jacques-Arsène d'Arsonval dies ... physician, physicist, and inventor of the moving-coil D'Arsonval galvanometer and the thermocouple ammeter. D'Arsonval was an important contributor to the emerging field of electrophysiology, the study of the effects of electricity on biological organisms, in the nineteenth century.


||Edgar Lee Hewett (d. 1946) was an American archaeologist and anthropologist whose focus was the Native American communities of New Mexico and the southwestern United States. He is best known for his role in gaining passage of the Antiquities Act, a pioneering piece of legislation for the conservation movement
||1946: Edgar Lee Hewett dies ... archaeologist and anthropologist whose focus was the Native American communities of New Mexico and the southwestern United States. He is best known for his role in gaining passage of the Antiquities Act, a pioneering piece of legislation for the conservation movement


||1955 – General Motors becomes the first U.S. corporation to make over US$1 billion in a year.
||1948: Heinrich Matthias Konen dies ... physicist who specialized in spectroscopy. Pic: https://www.google.com/search?biw=1175&bih=668&tbm=isch&sa=1&ei=FTCAW9PkLaufjwSgn6XoAg&q=Heinrich+Konen&oq=Heinrich+Konen&gs_l=img.3...3908464.3908464.0.3908896.1.1.0.0.0.0.290.290.2-1.1.0....0...1c.2.64.img..0.0.0....0.4KnrtIlysyg#imgrc=76oBzXZb-gljNM:


||Sir Charles Galton Darwin, KBE, MC, FRS (d. 31 December 1962) was an English physicist who served as director of the National Physical Laboratory (NPL) during the Second World War. He was the son of the mathematician George Howard Darwin and a grandson of Charles Darwin.
||1955: General Motors becomes the first U.S. corporation to make over US$1 billion in a year.
 
||1962: Charles Galton Darwin dies ... physicist who served as director of the National Physical Laboratory (NPL) during the Second World War. He was the son of the mathematician George Howard Darwin and a grandson of Charles Darwin.


File:Brion Gysin scrying engine Dreamachine.jpg|link=Brion Gysin|1969: [[Brion Gysin]] uses hand-held [[scrying engine]] to detect and expose [[Extract of Radium]] marketing campaign.
File:Brion Gysin scrying engine Dreamachine.jpg|link=Brion Gysin|1969: [[Brion Gysin]] uses hand-held [[scrying engine]] to detect and expose [[Extract of Radium]] marketing campaign.
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File:Woodward and Burroughs distill Extract of Radium.jpg|link=Extract of Radium|1970: [[Extract of Radium]] wishes you a Happy New Year!
File:Woodward and Burroughs distill Extract of Radium.jpg|link=Extract of Radium|1970: [[Extract of Radium]] wishes you a Happy New Year!


||Kurt Otto Friedrichs (d. December 31, 1982) was a noted German American mathematician.  
||1982: Kurt Otto Friedrichs dies ... mathematician.  


||1983 – The AT&T Bell System is broken up by the United States Government.
||1983: The AT&T Bell System is broken up by the United States Government.


||1991 – All official Soviet Union institutions have ceased operations by this date 5 days after the Soviet Union is officially dissolved.
||1991: All official Soviet Union institutions have ceased operations by this date 5 days after the Soviet Union is officially dissolved.


||2003 – Arthur R. von Hippel German-American physicist and author (b. 1898)
||2003: Arthur R. von Hippel dies ... physicist and author.


||2004 – Gérard Debreu, French economist and mathematician, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1921)
||2004: Gérard Debreu dies ... economist and mathematician, Nobel Prize laureate.


File:Deep Impact.png|link=Deep Impact (spacecraft) (nonfiction)|2007: The [[Deep Impact (spacecraft) (nonfiction)|Deep Impact]] spacecraft flies by Earth on an extended mission to study extrasolar planets and comet Hartley 2 (103P/Hartley).
File:Deep Impact.png|link=Deep Impact (spacecraft) (nonfiction)|2007: The [[Deep Impact (spacecraft) (nonfiction)|Deep Impact]] spacecraft flies by Earth on an extended mission to study extrasolar planets and comet Hartley 2 (103P/Hartley).


||2011 – NASA succeeds in putting the first of two Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory satellites in orbit around the Moon.
||2011: NASA succeeds in putting the first of two Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory satellites in orbit around the Moon.


||Felix Arnold Edward Pirani (d. December 31, 2015) was a British theoretical physicist specializing in gravitational physics and general relativity. Pirani and Herman Bondi wrote a series of articles (1959 to 1989) that established the existence of plane wave solutions for gravitational waves based on general relativity.
||2015: Felix Arnold Edward Pirani dies ... theoretical physicist specializing in gravitational physics and general relativity. Pirani and Herman Bondi wrote a series of articles (1959 to 1989) that established the existence of plane wave solutions for gravitational waves based on general relativity.


File:Dennis Paulson of Mars.jpg|link=Dennis Paulson of Mars|2016: Reality television show ''[[Dennis Paulson of Mars]]'' fully funded by Kickstarter.
File:Dennis Paulson of Mars.jpg|link=Dennis Paulson of Mars|2016: Reality television show ''[[Dennis Paulson of Mars]]'' fully funded by Kickstarter.
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  • 1610: Mathematician and fencer Ludolph van Ceulen dies. He spent a major part of his life calculating the numerical value of the mathematical constant π.

    1610: Mathematician and fencer Ludolph van Ceulen dies. He spent a major part of his life calculating the numerical value of the mathematical constant π.

  • 1738: Mathematician and crime-fighter Johann Bernouli publishes new theory of infinitesimal calculus which has applications in detecting and preventing crimes against mathematical constants.

    1738: Mathematician and crime-fighter Johann Bernouli publishes new theory of infinitesimal calculus which has applications in detecting and preventing crimes against mathematical constants.

  • 1853: Banquet held in the mould of the Crystal Palace Iguanodon.

    1853: Banquet held in the mould of the Crystal Palace Iguanodon.

  • 1879: Thomas Edison demonstrates incandescent lighting to the public for the first time, in Menlo Park, New Jersey.

    1879: Thomas Edison demonstrates incandescent lighting to the public for the first time, in Menlo Park, New Jersey.

  • 1894: Mathematician Thomas Joannes Stieltjes dies. He worked on almost all branches of analysis, continued fractions and number theory, and was called "the father of the analytic theory of continued fractions."

    1894: Mathematician Thomas Joannes Stieltjes dies. He worked on almost all branches of analysis, continued fractions and number theory, and was called "the father of the analytic theory of continued fractions."

  • 1900: Priest and inventor Hannibal Goodwin dies. He invented and patented rolled celluloid photographic film.

    1900: Priest and inventor Hannibal Goodwin dies. He invented and patented rolled celluloid photographic film.

  • 1969: Brion Gysin uses hand-held scrying engine to detect and expose Extract of Radium marketing campaign.

    1969: Brion Gysin uses hand-held scrying engine to detect and expose Extract of Radium marketing campaign.

  • 1980: Professor of English and philosopher of communication theory Marshall McLuhan dies. He coined the expressions "the medium is the message" and "global village".

    1980: Professor of English and philosopher of communication theory Marshall McLuhan dies. He coined the expressions "the medium is the message" and "global village".

  • 1970: Extract of Radium wishes you a Happy New Year!

    1970: Extract of Radium wishes you a Happy New Year!

  • 2007: The Deep Impact spacecraft flies by Earth on an extended mission to study extrasolar planets and comet Hartley 2 (103P/Hartley).

    2007: The Deep Impact spacecraft flies by Earth on an extended mission to study extrasolar planets and comet Hartley 2 (103P/Hartley).

  • 2016: Reality television show Dennis Paulson of Mars fully funded by Kickstarter.

    2016: Reality television show Dennis Paulson of Mars fully funded by Kickstarter.

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