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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 (b. 1764) was a pharmacist, chemist, and anatomist.
||1764: Georg Friedrich Hildebrandt born ... pharmacist, chemist, and anatomist.


||1819 John Couch Adams, English mathematician and astronomer (d. 1892)
||1819: John Couch Adams born ... mathematician and astronomer.


||1829 HMS Pickle captures the armed slave ship Voladora off the coast of Cuba.
||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 Allvar Gullstrand, Swedish ophthalmologist and optician, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1930)
||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.  


||Grigorii Mikhailovich Fichtenholz (b. June 5, 1888) was a Russian mathematician working on real analysis and functional analysis. Fichtenholz was one of the founders of the Leningrad school of real analysis. Pic.
||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.


||1899 – Otis Barton, American diver, engineer, and actor, designed the bathysphere (d. 1992)
||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.


||1900 – Dennis Gabor, Hungarian-English physicist and engineer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1979)
||1899: Otis Barton born ... diver, engineer, and actor, designed the bathysphere.


||Sir Rudolf Ernst Peierls, CBE (b. 5 June 1907) was a German-born British physicist who played a major role in Tube Alloys, Britain's nuclear programme, and the Manhattan Project.  
||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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