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||File:Wild Man in Hydrogen Bubble Chamber.jpg|link=Time travel (nonfiction)|1105: [[Time travel (nonfiction)|Time travel device]] develops self-awareness, commits series of [[crimes against mathematical constants]]. | |||
||1459 – Martin Behaim, German navigator and geographer (d. 1507) | |||
||1536 – William Tyndale, English Protestant Bible translator (b. c. 1494) | |||
||1723 – Benjamin Franklin arrives in Philadelphia at the age of 17. | |||
||1803 – Heinrich Wilhelm Dove, Polish-German physicist and meteorologist (d. 1879) | |||
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. | ||
||1846 – George Westinghouse, American engineer and businessman, founded the Westinghouse Air Brake Company (d. 1914) | |||
File:Reginald Fessenden.jpg|link=Reginald Fessenden (nonfiction)|1866: Inventor [[Reginald Fessenden (nonfiction)|Reginald Fessenden]] born. He will performed pioneering experiments in radio, including the use of continuous waves and the early—and possibly the first—radio transmissions of voice and music. | File:Reginald Fessenden.jpg|link=Reginald Fessenden (nonfiction)|1866: Inventor [[Reginald Fessenden (nonfiction)|Reginald Fessenden]] born. He will performed pioneering experiments in radio, including the use of continuous waves and the early—and possibly the first—radio transmissions of voice and music. | ||
||1889 – American inventor Thomas Edison shows his first motion picture. | |||
||1893 – Meghnad Saha, Indian astrophysicist, astronomer, and academic (d. 1956) | |||
||1897 – Florence B. Seibert, American biochemist and academic (d. 1991) | |||
||1903 – Ernest Walton, Irish physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1995) | |||
||1908 – Sergei Sobolev, Russian mathematician and academic (d. 1989) | |||
||1921 – Evgenii Landis, Ukrainian-Russian mathematician and theorist (d. 1997) | |||
||1951 – Otto Fritz Meyerhof, German-American physician and biochemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1884) | |||
||1968 – Phyllis Nicolson, English mathematician and physicist (b. 1917) | |||
||1986 – Alexander Kronrod, Russian mathematician and computer scientist (b. 1921) | |||
||1995 – 51 Pegasi is discovered to be the second major star apart from the Sun to have a planet orbiting around it. | |||
||2007 – Jason Lewis completes the first human-powered circumnavigation of the globe. | |||
||2013 – Nico van Kampen, Dutch physicist and academic (b. 1921) | |||
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1831: Mathematician, philosopher, and academic Richard Dedekind born. He will make important contributions to abstract algebra (particularly ring theory), algebraic number theory and the definition of the real numbers.
1866: Inventor Reginald Fessenden born. He will performed pioneering experiments in radio, including the use of continuous waves and the early—and possibly the first—radio transmissions of voice and music.