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||1550: Architect and military engineer Antonio Ferramolino, is killed during the siege of Mahdia in modern Tunisia. Pic: map: http://www.lescalinatedellarte.com/it/?q=node/4377
|File:Achilles Ajax dice.jpg|link=Dice (nonfiction)|Achilles and Ajax play [[Dice (nonfiction)|dice]] to determine who will attend the [[Lucky Spasm Dice Academy]].
 
||1550 – Antonio Ferramolino, Italian architect and military engineer


File:Blaise Pascal.jpg|link=Blaise Pascal (nonfiction)|1633: Mathematician, physicist, inventor, and Christian crime-fighter [[Blaise Pascal (nonfiction)|Blaise Pascal]] demonstrates pioneering calculating machine which detects and prevents [[crimes against physics]].
File:Blaise Pascal.jpg|link=Blaise Pascal (nonfiction)|1633: Mathematician, physicist, inventor, and Christian crime-fighter [[Blaise Pascal (nonfiction)|Blaise Pascal]] demonstrates pioneering calculating machine which detects and prevents [[crimes against physics]].
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||1652: Florimond de Beaune dies ... jurist and mathematician. In a 1638 letter to Descartes, de Beaune described the first example of the inverse tangent method of deducing properties of a curve from its tangents. Pic, book cover: http://www.librairiedesmaths.com/site/ficprod.asp?IDProduit=1887
||1652: Florimond de Beaune dies ... jurist and mathematician. In a 1638 letter to Descartes, de Beaune described the first example of the inverse tangent method of deducing properties of a curve from its tangents. Pic, book cover: http://www.librairiedesmaths.com/site/ficprod.asp?IDProduit=1887


||1685 – Brook Taylor, English mathematician and theorist (d. 1731)
||1685: Brook Taylor born ... mathematician and theorist.
 
||1698: Samuel Klingenstierna born ... mathematician, scientist, and academic. He was instrumental in the invention of the Achromatic Telescope. Pic.


||Samuel Klingenstierna (b. 18 August 1698) was a mathematician, scientist, and academic. He was instrumental in the invention of the Achromatic Telescope. Pic.
||1774: Meriwether Lewis born ... American soldier, explorer, and politician (d. 1809)


||1774 – Meriwether Lewis, American soldier, explorer, and politician (d. 1809)
||1783: A huge fireball meteor is seen across Great Britain as it passes over the east coast.


||1783 – A huge fireball meteor is seen across Great Britain as it passes over the east coast.
||1823: André-Jacques Garnerin dies .... balloonist and the inventor of the frameless parachute.


||André-Jacques Garnerin (d. 18 August, 1823) was a French balloonist and the inventor of the frameless parachute.
||1835: Friedrich Stromeyer dies ... chemist.  


||Friedrich Stromeyer (d. 18 August 1835) was a German chemist.  
||1841: Louis Claude de Saulces de Freycinet dies ... navigator. He circumnavigated the earth, and in 1811 published the first map to show a full outline of the coastline of Australia. Pic.


||Louis Claude de Saulces de Freycinet (d. 18 August 1841) was a French navigator. He circumnavigated the earth, and in 1811 published the first map to show a full outline of the coastline of Australia. Pic.
||1858: William Austin Burt dies ... inventor, legislator, surveyor, and millwright. He was the inventor, maker and patentee of the first typewriter constructed in America. He is referred to as the "father of the typewriter". Burt also invented the first workable solar compass, a solar use surveying instrument, and the equatorial sextant, a precision navigational aid to determine with one observation the location of a ship at sea. Pic.


||William Austin Burt (d. August 18, 1858) was an American inventor, legislator, surveyor, and millwright. He was the inventor, maker and patentee of the first typewriter constructed in America. He is referred to as the "father of the typewriter". Burt also invented the first workable solar compass, a solar use surveying instrument, and the equatorial sextant, a precision navigational aid to determine with one observation the location of a ship at sea. Pic.
||1868: French astronomer Pierre Janssen discovers helium.


||1868 – French astronomer Pierre Janssen discovers helium.
||1874: Sir William Fairbairn, 1st Baronet of Ardwick ... civil engineer, structural engineer and shipbuilder.


||Sir William Fairbairn, 1st Baronet of Ardwick (d. 18 August 1874) was a Scottish civil engineer, structural engineer and shipbuilder.
||Engels wrote to Marx, "The matter is so perfectly clear that we cannot be amazed enough how the mathematicians so stubbornly insist on mystifying it," in praise of Marx's manuscript on the differential calculus.  


||1886 – Eli Whitney Blake, American inventor, invented the Mortise lock (b. 1795)
||1886: Eli Whitney Blake dies ... American inventor, invented the Mortise lock (b. 1795)


||Erich Kamke (b. August 18, 1890) was a German mathematician, who specialized in the theory of differential equations. Also, his book on set theory became a standard introduction to the field.
||1890: Erich Kamke born ... mathematician, who specialized in the theory of differential equations. Also, his book on set theory became a standard introduction to the field.


||1903 – German engineer Karl Jatho allegedly flies his self-made, motored gliding airplane four months before the first flight of the Wright brothers.
||1903: German engineer Karl Jatho allegedly flies his self-made, motored gliding airplane four months before the first flight of the Wright brothers.


File:Pál Turán.jpg|link=Pál Turán (nonfiction)|1910: Mathematician [[Pál Turán (nonfiction)|Pál Turán]] born. He will work primarily in number theory, but also contribute to analysis and graph theory.
File:Pál Turán.jpg|link=Pál Turán (nonfiction)|1910: Mathematician [[Pál Turán (nonfiction)|Pál Turán]] born. He will work primarily in number theory, but also contribute to analysis and graph theory.
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File:Klara Dan von Neumann.png|link=Klara Dan von Neumann (nonfiction)|1911: Computer scientist [[Klara Dan von Neumann (nonfiction)|Klara Dan von Neumann]] born. She will be one of the world's first computer programmers and coders, solving mathematical problems using computer code.
File:Klara Dan von Neumann.png|link=Klara Dan von Neumann (nonfiction)|1911: Computer scientist [[Klara Dan von Neumann (nonfiction)|Klara Dan von Neumann]] born. She will be one of the world's first computer programmers and coders, solving mathematical problems using computer code.


||Friedrich Moritz Hartogs (d. 18 August 1943) was a German-Jewish mathematician, known for his work on set theory and foundational results on several complex variables. Pic.
||1943: Friedrich Moritz Hartogs dies ... mathematician, known for his work on set theory and foundational results on several complex variables. Pic.
 
|File:Venera 7.jpg|link=Venera 7 (nonfiction)|1971: Soviet spacecraft [[Venera 7 (nonfiction)|Venera 7]] allegedly discovers secret [[math lab]] on the planet Venus.


||Bernard Osgood Koopman (d. August 18, 1981) was a French-born American mathematician, known for his work in ergodic theory, the foundations of probability, statistical theory and operations research.
||1981: Bernard Osgood Koopman dies ... mathematician, known for his work in ergodic theory, the foundations of probability, statistical theory and operations research.


||Richard Laurence Millington Synge (d. 18 August 1994) was a British biochemist, and shared the 1952 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the invention of partition chromatography with Archer Martin. Pic.
||1994: Richard Laurence Millington Synge dies ... biochemist, and shared the 1952 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the invention of partition chromatography with Archer Martin. Pic.


||Kurt Schütte (d. 18 August 1998) was a German mathematician who worked on proof theory and ordinal analysis. The Feferman–Schütte ordinal, which he showed to be the precise ordinal bound for predicativity, is named after him. Pic.
||1998: Kurt Schütte dies ... mathematician who worked on proof theory and ordinal analysis. The Feferman–Schütte ordinal, which he showed to be the precise ordinal bound for predicativity, is named after him. Pic.


||2001 – David Peakall, English chemist and toxicologist (b. 1931) - DDT, thinning eggshells
||2001: David Peakall dies ... chemist and toxicologist ... DDT, thinning eggshells


||Charles John Read (d. 18 August 2015) was a British mathematician known for his work in functional analysis. In operator theory, he is best known for his work in the 1980s on the invariant subspace problem, where he constructed operators with only trivial invariant subspaces on particular Banach spaces Pic.
||2015: Charles John Read dies ... mathematician known for his work in functional analysis. In operator theory, he is best known for his work in the 1980s on the invariant subspace problem, where he constructed operators with only trivial invariant subspaces on particular Banach spaces Pic.


File:Zero knowledge proof.png|link=Zero-knowledge proof (nonfiction)|2016: Advances in [[Zero-knowledge proof (nonfiction)|zero-knowledge proof]] theory "are central to the problem of mathematical reliability," says mathematician and crime-fighter [[Alice Beta]].
File:Zero knowledge proof.png|link=Zero-knowledge proof (nonfiction)|2016: Advances in [[Zero-knowledge proof (nonfiction)|zero-knowledge proof]] theory "are central to the problem of mathematical reliability," says mathematician and crime-fighter [[Alice Beta]].


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