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||1459: Martin Behaim born ... navigator and geographer.
||1459: Martin Behaim born ... navigator and geographer.


||1536: Printer William Tyndale executed.
||1536: Printer William Tyndale executed. No DOB. Pic.


File:Gerolamo Cardano.jpg|link=Gerolamo Cardano (nonfiction)|1570: [[Gerolamo Cardano (nonfiction)|Gerolamo Cardano]] imprisoned for 87 days on charges of impiety (casting a horoscope of Christ). He spent the remaining five years of his life in Rome under the eye of a suspicious pope who nonetheless gave him a pension.  
File:Gerolamo Cardano.jpg|link=Gerolamo Cardano (nonfiction)|1570: [[Gerolamo Cardano (nonfiction)|Gerolamo Cardano]] imprisoned for 87 days on charges of impiety (casting a horoscope of Christ). He spent the remaining five years of his life in Rome under the eye of a suspicious pope who nonetheless gave him a pension.  
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||1795: Olinde Rodrigues born ... banker, mathematician, and social reformer. Pic.
||1795: Olinde Rodrigues born ... banker, mathematician, and social reformer. Pic.


||1803: Heinrich Wilhelm Dove born ... physicist and meteorologist.
||1803: Heinrich Wilhelm Dove born ... physicist and meteorologist. Pic.


File:Richard Dedekind.jpg|link=Richard Dedekind (nonfiction)|1831: Mathematician, philosopher, and academic [[Richard Dedekind (nonfiction)|Richard Dedekind]] born. He will make important contributions to abstract algebra (particularly ring theory), algebraic number theory and the definition of the real numbers.
File:Richard Dedekind.jpg|link=Richard Dedekind (nonfiction)|1831: Mathematician, philosopher, and academic [[Richard Dedekind (nonfiction)|Richard Dedekind]] born. He will make important contributions to abstract algebra (particularly ring theory), algebraic number theory and the definition of the real numbers.
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||1924: Bruce Irons born ... engineer and mathematician, known for his fundamental contribution to the finite element method, including the patch test, the frontal solver and, along with Ian C. Taig, the isoparametric element concept. Pic.
||1924: Bruce Irons born ... engineer and mathematician, known for his fundamental contribution to the finite element method, including the patch test, the frontal solver and, along with Ian C. Taig, the isoparametric element concept. Pic.


||1951: Otto Fritz Meyerhof dies ... physician and biochemist, Nobel Prize laureate.
||1951: Otto Fritz Meyerhof dies ... physician and biochemist, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic.


||1959: Balthasar van der Pol dies ... physicist. Pic.
||1959: Balthasar van der Pol dies ... physicist. Pic.

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