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||1505 – Achilles Gasser, German physician and astrologer (d. 1577)
||150: Achilles Gasser born ... physician and astrologer.


||1643 – John Bainbridge, English astronomer and academic (b. 1582)
||1643: John Bainbridge dies ... astronomer and academic.


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.
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File:Rasmus_Bartholin.jpg|link=Rasmus Bartholin (nonfiction)|1688: Physician, mathematician, and physicist [[Rasmus Bartholin (nonfiction)|Rasmus Bartholin]] uses the double refraction of a light ray to detect and locate [[crimes against light]]. Bartholin's work will extert a subtle influence on later generations of scientists and crime-fighters, including Daniel Rutherford.  
File:Rasmus_Bartholin.jpg|link=Rasmus Bartholin (nonfiction)|1688: Physician, mathematician, and physicist [[Rasmus Bartholin (nonfiction)|Rasmus Bartholin]] uses the double refraction of a light ray to detect and locate [[crimes against light]]. Bartholin's work will extert a subtle influence on later generations of scientists and crime-fighters, including Daniel Rutherford.  


||1749 – Daniel Rutherford, Scottish chemist and physician (d. 1819)
||1749: Daniel Rutherford born ... chemist and physician.


||1863 – Alfred Perot, French physicist and academic (d. 1925)
||1863 – Alfred Perot, French physicist and academic (d. 1925)
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File:Aleksandr Ljapunov.jpg|link=Aleksandr Lyapunov (nonfiction)|1918: Mathematician and physicist [[Aleksandr Lyapunov (nonfiction)|Aleksandr Lyapunov]] dies. Lyapunov contributed to several fields, including differential equations, potential theory, dynamical systems and probability theory. His main preoccupations were the stability of equilibria and the motion of mechanical systems, and the study of particles under the influence of gravity.
File:Aleksandr Ljapunov.jpg|link=Aleksandr Lyapunov (nonfiction)|1918: Mathematician and physicist [[Aleksandr Lyapunov (nonfiction)|Aleksandr Lyapunov]] dies. Lyapunov contributed to several fields, including differential equations, potential theory, dynamical systems and probability theory. His main preoccupations were the stability of equilibria and the motion of mechanical systems, and the study of particles under the influence of gravity.


||1933 – Pierre Paul Émile Roux, French physician, bacteriologist, and immunologist (b. 1853)
||1933: Pierre Paul Émile Roux dies ... physician, bacteriologist, and immunologist.


||1957 – Sputnik program: The Soviet Union launches Sputnik 2. On board is the first animal to enter orbit, a dog named Laika.
||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.
||1973: Mariner program: NASA launches the Mariner 10 toward Mercury. On March 29, 1974, it becomes the first space probe to reach that planet.


||Bronisław Knaster (d. 3 November 1980) was a Polish mathematician. He is known for his work in point-set topology and in particular for his discoveries in 1922 of the hereditarily indecomposable continuum or pseudo-arc and of the Knaster continuum, or buckethandle continuum. Pic.
||1980: Bronisław Knaster dies ... mathematician. He is known for his work in point-set topology and in particular for his discoveries in 1922 of the hereditarily indecomposable continuum or pseudo-arc and of the Knaster continuum, or buckethandle continuum. Pic.


||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.
||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)
||1993: Léon Theremin dies ... physicist and engineer, invented the Theremin.


||Vasilii Sergeevich Vladimirov (d. 3 November 2012) was a Soviet mathematician and mathematical physicist working in the fields of number theory, mathematical physics, quantum field theory, numerical analysis, generalized functions, several complex variables, p-adic analysis, multidimensional tauberian theorems. Pic.
||1999: Sam Bard Treiman dies ... theoretical physicist who produced research in the fields of cosmic rays, quantum physics, plasma physics and gravity physics. He made contributions to the understanding of the weak interaction and he and his students are credited with developing the so-called standard model of elementary particle physics. Pic: https://history.aip.org/phn/11603017.html
 
||2012: Vasilii Sergeevich Vladimirov dies ... mathematician and mathematical physicist working in the fields of number theory, mathematical physics, quantum field theory, numerical analysis, generalized functions, several complex variables, p-adic analysis, multidimensional tauberian theorems. Pic.


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: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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  • 1643: Astronomer and mathematician Paul Guldin dies. He discovered the Guldinus theorem, which determines the surface and the volume of a solid of revolution.

    1643: Astronomer and mathematician Paul Guldin dies. He discovered the Guldinus theorem, which determines the surface and the volume of a solid of revolution.

  • 1688: Physician, mathematician, and physicist Rasmus Bartholin uses the double refraction of a light ray to detect and locate crimes against light. Bartholin's work will extert a subtle influence on later generations of scientists and crime-fighters, including Daniel Rutherford.

    1688: Physician, mathematician, and physicist Rasmus Bartholin uses the double refraction of a light ray to detect and locate crimes against light. Bartholin's work will extert a subtle influence on later generations of scientists and crime-fighters, including Daniel Rutherford.

  • 1911: Mathematician George Chrystal dies. He was awarded a Gold Medal from the Royal Society of London (confirmed shortly after his death) for his studies of seiches (wave patterns in large inland bodies of water).

    1911: Mathematician George Chrystal dies. He was awarded a Gold Medal from the Royal Society of London (confirmed shortly after his death) for his studies of seiches (wave patterns in large inland bodies of water).

  • 1918: Mathematician and physicist Aleksandr Lyapunov dies. Lyapunov contributed to several fields, including differential equations, potential theory, dynamical systems and probability theory. His main preoccupations were the stability of equilibria and the motion of mechanical systems, and the study of particles under the influence of gravity.

    1918: Mathematician and physicist Aleksandr Lyapunov dies. Lyapunov contributed to several fields, including differential equations, potential theory, dynamical systems and probability theory. His main preoccupations were the stability of equilibria and the motion of mechanical systems, and the study of particles under the influence of gravity.

  • 2017: The Eel Hates Peter Aal sells for two and a half million dollars.

    2017: The Eel Hates Peter Aal sells for two and a half million dollars.

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