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File:Cornelis de Houtman.jpg|link=Cornelis de Houtman (nonfiction)|1599: Explorer [[Cornelis de Houtman (nonfiction)|Cornelis de Houtman]] dies. He discovered a new sea route from Europe to Indonesia, beginning the Dutch spice trade. | File:Cornelis de Houtman.jpg|link=Cornelis de Houtman (nonfiction)|1599: Explorer [[Cornelis de Houtman (nonfiction)|Cornelis de Houtman]] dies. He discovered a new sea route from Europe to Indonesia, beginning the Dutch spice trade. | ||
||1621: Bahāʾ al‐Dīn Muḥammad ibn Ḥusayn al‐ʿĀmilī dies ... scholar, philosopher, architect, mathematician, astronomer and poet who lived in the late 16th and early 17th centuries in Safavid Iran. He was born in Baalbek, Ottoman Syria (present-day Lebanon) but immigrated in his childhood to Safavid Iran with the rest of his family.[3] He was one of the earliest astronomers in the Islamic world to suggest the possibility of the Earth's movement prior to the spread of the Copernican theory. He is considered one of the main co-founders of Isfahan School of Islamic Philosophy. In later years he became one of the teachers of Mulla Sadra. Pic: tapestry? | |||
||1687: Bahāʾ al‐Dīn Muḥammad ibn Ḥusayn al‐ʿĀmilī dies ... scholar, philosopher, architect, mathematician, astronomer and poet. He was one of the earliest astronomers in the Islamic world to suggest the possibility of the Earth's movement prior to the spread of the Copernican theory. Pic: tapestry? | ||1687: Bahāʾ al‐Dīn Muḥammad ibn Ḥusayn al‐ʿĀmilī dies ... scholar, philosopher, architect, mathematician, astronomer and poet. He was one of the earliest astronomers in the Islamic world to suggest the possibility of the Earth's movement prior to the spread of the Copernican theory. Pic: tapestry? | ||
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||1804: Juno, one of the largest asteroids in the Main Belt, is discovered by the German astronomer Karl Ludwig Harding. | ||1804: Juno, one of the largest asteroids in the Main Belt, is discovered by the German astronomer Karl Ludwig Harding. | ||
||Zerah Colburn | ||1804: Zerah Colburn born ... child prodigy of the 19th century who gained fame as a mental calculator. Pic. | ||
||Johann Friedrich August Göttling | ||1809: Johann Friedrich August Göttling born ... chemist. | ||
||William Stanley Jevons | ||1835: William Stanley Jevons born ... economist and logician. | ||
||1856: Sergei Winogradsky (b. 1 September 1856) was a Russian microbiologist, ecologist and soil scientist who pioneered the cycle-of-life concept. Pic. | ||1856: Sergei Winogradsky (b. 1 September 1856) was a Russian microbiologist, ecologist and soil scientist who pioneered the cycle-of-life concept. Pic. | ||
||Carl Auer von Welsbach | ||1858: Carl Auer von Welsbach born ... scientist and inventor, who had a talent not only for discovering advances, but also for turning them into commercially successful products. He is particularly well known for his work on rare-earth elements, which led to the development of the flint used in modern lighters, the gas mantle, which brought light to the streets of Europe in the late 19th century, and for the development of the metal-filament light bulb. | ||
||Lazăr Edeleanu | ||1861: Lazăr Edeleanu born ... chemist of Jewish origin. He is known for being the first chemist to synthesize amphetamine at the University of Berlin and for inventing the modern method of refining crude oil. | ||
||1877 | ||1877: Francis William Aston born ... chemist and physicist, Nobel Prize laureate. | ||
||Elmer Tiling Cunningham | ||1889: Elmer Tiling Cunningham born ... entrepreneur and businessman, specializing in vacuum tubes and radio manufacturing. He is best known for being the most successful business person to produce unlicensed counterfeit vacuum tubes. Pic tube. | ||
||1895 | ||1895: Engelbert Zaschka born ... engineer and designer, invented the Human-powered aircraft. | ||
||Aleksandr Nikolayevich Korkin | ||1908: Aleksandr Nikolayevich Korkin dies ... mathematician. He made contribution to the development of partial differential equations, and was second only to Chebyshev among the founders of the Saint Petersburg Mathematical School. | ||
||Aleksander Zaytsev | ||1910: Aleksander Zaytsev dies ... chemist. He worked on organic compounds and proposed Zaitsev's rule, which predicts the product composition of an elimination reaction. Pic. | ||
||Pao-Lu Hsu | ||1910: Pao-Lu Hsu born ... mathematician noted for his work in probability theory and statistics. Pic. | ||
||1919 | ||1919: Hilda Hänchen born ... physicist and academic. | ||
File:Ascleplius Myrmidon Halting Problem.jpg|link=On Halting Problems|1938: Asclepius Myrmidon publishes ''[[On Halting Problems]]'', about the computational and medical problem of determining, from a description of an arbitrary computer program and an input, whether the program will finish running or continue to run forever. | File:Ascleplius Myrmidon Halting Problem.jpg|link=On Halting Problems|1938: Asclepius Myrmidon publishes ''[[On Halting Problems]]'', about the computational and medical problem of determining, from a description of an arbitrary computer program and an input, whether the program will finish running or continue to run forever. | ||
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|File:Edward Lorenz.jpg|link=Edward Lorenz (nonfiction)|1969: Mathematician [[Edward Lorenz (nonfiction)|Edward Lorenz]] invents new class [[Gnomon algorithm functions]], prevents several [[crimes against mathematical constants]]. | |File:Edward Lorenz.jpg|link=Edward Lorenz (nonfiction)|1969: Mathematician [[Edward Lorenz (nonfiction)|Edward Lorenz]] invents new class [[Gnomon algorithm functions]], prevents several [[crimes against mathematical constants]]. | ||
||1939 | ||1939: Adolf Hitler signs an order to begin the systematic euthanasia of mentally ill and disabled people. | ||
File:Stefan Banach.jpg|link=Stefan Banach (nonfiction)|1944: Mathematician and crime fighter [[Stefan Banach (nonfiction)|Stefan Banach]] publishes new theory of modern functional analysis which enables mathematicians to detect and prevent [[crimes against mathematical constants]]. | File:Stefan Banach.jpg|link=Stefan Banach (nonfiction)|1944: Mathematician and crime fighter [[Stefan Banach (nonfiction)|Stefan Banach]] publishes new theory of modern functional analysis which enables mathematicians to detect and prevent [[crimes against mathematical constants]]. | ||
||1972 | ||1972: In Reykjavík, Iceland, American Bobby Fischer beats Russian Boris Spassky to become the world chess champion. | ||
||1974 | ||1974: The SR-71 Blackbird sets (and holds) the record for flying from New York to London in the time of 1 hour, 54 minutes and 56.4 seconds at a speed of 1,435.587 miles per hour (2,310.353 km/h). | ||
||1979 | ||1979: The American space probe Pioneer 11 becomes the first spacecraft to visit Saturn when it passes the planet at a distance of 21,000 kilometres (13,000 mi). | ||
||1981 | ||1981: Albert Speer, German architect and author (b. 1905) | ||
File:Haskell Brooks Curry.jpg|link=Haskell Curry (nonfiction)|1982: Mathematician and academic [[Haskell Curry (nonfiction)|Haskell Curry]] dies. He is known for his work in combinatory logic. | File:Haskell Brooks Curry.jpg|link=Haskell Curry (nonfiction)|1982: Mathematician and academic [[Haskell Curry (nonfiction)|Haskell Curry]] dies. He is known for his work in combinatory logic. | ||
||1982 | ||1982: The United States Air Force Space Command is founded. | ||
||1988 | ||1988: Luis Walter Alvarez dies ... physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. | ||
||1991 | ||1991: Otl Aicher dies ... graphic designer and typographer. | ||
||Oded Schramm | ||2008: Oded Schramm dies ... mathematician known for the invention of the Schramm–Loewner evolution (SLE) and for working at the intersection of conformal field theory and probability theory. Pic. | ||
||2012 | ||2012: Krzysztof Wilmanski dies ... physicist and academic. | ||
||2014 | ||2014: Joseph Shivers dies ... chemist and academic, developed spandex. | ||
File:Asclepius Myrmidon Spear Charge.jpg|link=Asclepius Myrmidon Spear Charge|2017: Signed first edition of ''[[Asclepius Myrmidon Spear Charge]]'' sells for two and a half million dollars. | File:Asclepius Myrmidon Spear Charge.jpg|link=Asclepius Myrmidon Spear Charge|2017: Signed first edition of ''[[Asclepius Myrmidon Spear Charge]]'' sells for two and a half million dollars. | ||
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1599: Explorer Cornelis de Houtman dies. He discovered a new sea route from Europe to Indonesia, beginning the Dutch spice trade.
1938: Asclepius Myrmidon publishes On Halting Problems, about the computational and medical problem of determining, from a description of an arbitrary computer program and an input, whether the program will finish running or continue to run forever.
1944: Mathematician and crime fighter Stefan Banach publishes new theory of modern functional analysis which enables mathematicians to detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.
1982: Mathematician and academic Haskell Curry dies. He is known for his work in combinatory logic.
2017: Signed first edition of Asclepius Myrmidon Spear Charge sells for two and a half million dollars.