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||1621 – Antoine de Montchrestien, French soldier, playwright, and economist (b. 1575) | |||
||1647 – Christen Sørensen Longomontanus, Danish astronomer and mathematician (b. 1562) | |||
||1652 – John Greaves, English mathematician and astronomer (b. 1602) | |||
||1715 – Michel Benoist, French scientist and missionary (d. 1774) | |||
||1850 – Henry Louis Le Châtelier, French chemist and academic (d. 1936) | |||
||1856 – The Second Opium War between several western powers and China begins with the Arrow Incident on the Pearl River. | |||
||1860 – Telegraph line between Los Angeles and San Francisco opens. | |||
||1872 – Mary Engle Pennington, American bacteriological chemist and refrigeration engineer (d. 1952) | |||
||1873 – Ejnar Hertzsprung, Danish chemist and astronomer (d. 1967) | |||
||1901 – Mark Oliphant, Australian physicist, humanitarian and politician, Governor of South Australia (d. 2000) | |||
||1910 – Helmut Kallmeyer, German chemist and soldier (d. 2006) | |||
||1917 – Rodney Robert Porter, English biochemist and physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1985) | |||
||1918 – Jens Christian Skou, Danish chemist and physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate | |||
||1924 – John Nelder, English mathematician and statistician (d. 2010) | |||
File:Sergey Chaplygin.jpg|link=Sergey Chaplygin (nonfiction)|1942: Physicist, mathematician, and engineer [[Sergey Chaplygin (nonfiction)|Sergey Chaplygin]] dies. He is known for mathematical formulas such as Chaplygin's equation, and for a hypothetical substance in cosmology called Chaplygin gas, named after him. | File:Sergey Chaplygin.jpg|link=Sergey Chaplygin (nonfiction)|1942: Physicist, mathematician, and engineer [[Sergey Chaplygin (nonfiction)|Sergey Chaplygin]] dies. He is known for mathematical formulas such as Chaplygin's equation, and for a hypothetical substance in cosmology called Chaplygin gas, named after him. | ||
||1949 – Jerry Bittle, American cartoonist (d. 2003) | |||
||1949 – Ashawna Hailey, American computer scientist and philanthropist (d. 2011) | |||
||1974 – Franklin National Bank collapses due to fraud and mismanagement; at the time it is the largest bank failure in the history of the United States. | |||
File:Gordon Welchman.jpg|link=Gordon Welchman (nonfiction)|1985: Mathematician, cryptographer, and author [[Gordon Welchman (nonfiction)|Gordon Welchman]] dies. During the Second World War, he developed traffic analysis techniques for breaking German codes. | File:Gordon Welchman.jpg|link=Gordon Welchman (nonfiction)|1985: Mathematician, cryptographer, and author [[Gordon Welchman (nonfiction)|Gordon Welchman]] dies. During the Second World War, he developed traffic analysis techniques for breaking German codes. | ||
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]]. | |||
File:Hilbert_curve.gif|link=Hilbert Curve (nonfiction)|[[Hilbert curve (nonfiction)|Hilbert curve]] gives [[Dice (nonfiction)|dice players]] brief lecture on [[Mathematics (nonfiction)|mathematics]]. | ||2001 – U.S. President George W. Bush announces the establishment of the Office of Homeland Security. | ||
||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]]. | |||
||File:Hilbert_curve.gif|link=Hilbert Curve (nonfiction)|[[Hilbert curve (nonfiction)|Hilbert curve]] gives [[Dice (nonfiction)|dice players]] brief lecture on [[Mathematics (nonfiction)|mathematics]]. | |||
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Revision as of 15:03, 14 July 2017
1942: Physicist, mathematician, and engineer Sergey Chaplygin dies. He is known for mathematical formulas such as Chaplygin's equation, and for a hypothetical substance in cosmology called Chaplygin gas, named after him.
1985: Mathematician, cryptographer, and author Gordon Welchman dies. During the Second World War, he developed traffic analysis techniques for breaking German codes.