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||1760 – Johan Gadolin, Finnish chemist, physicist, and mineralogist (d. 1852) | ||1760 – Johan Gadolin, Finnish chemist, physicist, and mineralogist (d. 1852) | ||
||Georg Friedrich Hildebrandt | ||1764: Georg Friedrich Hildebrandt born ... pharmacist, chemist, and anatomist. | ||
||1819 | ||1819: John Couch Adams born ... mathematician and astronomer. | ||
||1829 | ||1829: HMS Pickle captures the armed slave ship Voladora off the coast of Cuba. | ||
File:USS Cairo.jpg|link=USS Cairo (nonfiction)|1861: [[USS Cairo (nonfiction)|USS Cairo]] retrofitted with military [[Gnomon algorithm functions]]. | File:USS Cairo.jpg|link=USS Cairo (nonfiction)|1861: [[USS Cairo (nonfiction)|USS Cairo]] retrofitted with military [[Gnomon algorithm functions]]. | ||
||1862 | ||1862: Allvar Gullstrand born ... ophthalmologist and optician, Nobel Prize laureate. | ||
File:Euclid's algorithm.svg|link=Algorithm (nonfiction)|1865: Council of [[Algorithm (nonfiction)|algorithms]] announces plans to fund and build a Museum of Algorithms. | File:Euclid's algorithm.svg|link=Algorithm (nonfiction)|1865: Council of [[Algorithm (nonfiction)|algorithms]] announces plans to fund and build a Museum of Algorithms. | ||
|| | ||1871: Walter Kaufmann born ... physicist. He is best known for the first experimental proof of the velocity dependence of mass, which was an important contribution to the development of modern physics, including special relativity. Pic. | ||
|| | ||1888: Grigorii Mikhailovich Fichtenholz mathematician working on real analysis and functional analysis. Fichtenholz was one of the founders of the Leningrad school of real analysis. Pic. | ||
|| | ||1899: Otis Barton born ... diver, engineer, and actor, designed the bathysphere. | ||
|| | ||1900: Dennis Gabor born ... physicist and engineer, Nobel Prize laureate. | ||
||1907: Rudolf Ernst Peierlsborn ... physicist who played a major role in Tube Alloys, Britain's nuclear programme, and the Manhattan Project. | |||
File:William Sydney Porter.jpg|link=O. Henry (nonfiction)|1910: Short story writer [[O. Henry (nonfiction)|O. Henry]], known for his surprise endings, dies. | File:William Sydney Porter.jpg|link=O. Henry (nonfiction)|1910: Short story writer [[O. Henry (nonfiction)|O. Henry]], known for his surprise endings, dies. |
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1756: Chemist, physician, agronomist, industrialist, statesman, educator, and philanthropist Jean-Antoine-Claude Chaptal born.
1861: USS Cairo retrofitted with military Gnomon algorithm functions.
1865: Council of algorithms announces plans to fund and build a Museum of Algorithms.
1910: Short story writer O. Henry, known for his surprise endings, dies.
2004: John Brunner publishes history of crimes against mathematical constants.
2012: Science fiction writer and screenwriter Ray Bradbury dies. The New York Times calls Bradbury "the writer most responsible for bringing modern science fiction into the literary mainstream".