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||1511 Michael Servetus, Spanish physician, cartographer, and theologian (d. 1553)
||1511: Michael Servetus born ... physician, cartographer, and theologian.


File:Title page of the Astrolabium of Johannes Engel, printed by Johann Emerich, Venice 1494.jpg|link=Johannes Engel (nonfiction)|1512: Doctor, astronomer, and astrologer [[Johannes Engel (nonfiction)|Johannes Engel]] dies. He published numerous almanacs, planetary tables, and calendars.
File:Title page of the Astrolabium of Johannes Engel, printed by Johann Emerich, Venice 1494.jpg|link=Johannes Engel (nonfiction)|1512: Doctor, astronomer, and astrologer [[Johannes Engel (nonfiction)|Johannes Engel]] dies. He published numerous almanacs, planetary tables, and calendars.


||1561 Adriaan van Roomen, Flemish priest and mathematician (d. 1615)
||1561: Adriaan van Roomen born ... priest and mathematician.


||1765: Astronomer Karl Ludwig Harding born. He will discover Juno.
||1765: Astronomer Karl Ludwig Harding born. He will discover Juno.


||1803 Jacques Charles François Sturm, French mathematician and theorist (d. 1850)
||1803: Jacques Charles François Sturm born ... mathematician and theorist.


||1838: Pierre-Dominique Bazaine dies. -scientist and engineer.  
||1838: Pierre-Dominique Bazaine dies. -scientist and engineer.  


||1885 The first practical public electric tramway in the world is opened in Blackpool, England.
||1885: The first practical public electric tramway in the world is opened in Blackpool, England.


||Harold Hotelling (b. September 29, 1895) was a mathematical statistician and an influential economic theorist, known for Hotelling's law, Hotelling's lemma, and Hotelling's rule in economics, as well as Hotelling's T-squared distribution in statistics. Pic.
||1895: Harold Hotelling born ... mathematical statistician and an influential economic theorist, known for Hotelling's law, Hotelling's lemma, and Hotelling's rule in economics, as well as Hotelling's T-squared distribution in statistics. Pic.


||1895 Joseph Banks Rhine, American botanist and parapsychologist (d. 1980)
||1895: Joseph Banks Rhine born ... botanist and parapsychologist.


||Trofim Denisovich Lysenko (b. 29 September 1898) was a Soviet agronomist and biologist. Lysenko was a strong proponent of soft inheritance and rejected Mendelian genetics in favor of pseudoscientific ideas termed Lysenkoism. Pic.
||1898: Trofim Denisovich Lysenko born ... agronomist and biologist. Lysenko was a strong proponent of soft inheritance and rejected Mendelian genetics in favor of pseudoscientific ideas termed Lysenkoism. Pic.


File:Enrico Fermi 1943-49.jpg|link=Enrico Fermi (nonfiction)|1901: Physicist [[Enrico Fermi (nonfiction)|Enrico Fermi]] born.  He will be called the "architect of the nuclear age" and the "architect of the atomic bomb".
File:Enrico Fermi 1943-49.jpg|link=Enrico Fermi (nonfiction)|1901: Physicist [[Enrico Fermi (nonfiction)|Enrico Fermi]] born.  He will be called the "architect of the nuclear age" and the "architect of the atomic bomb".


||1913 Rudolf Diesel, German engineer, invented the diesel engine (b. 1858)
||1913: Rudolf Diesel dies ... engineer, invented the diesel engine.


||1931 – James Cronin, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2016). Pic.
||19281: Ernst Steinitz dies ... mathematician. Pic: https://ztfnews.wordpress.com/2013/09/29/%EF%BB%BFernst-steinitz%EF%BB%BF-1871-1928/


||1954 The convention establishing CERN (the European Organization for Nuclear Research) is signed.
||1931: James Cronin born ... physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic.
 
||1954: The convention establishing CERN (the European Organization for Nuclear Research) is signed.


File:Baron Zersetzung.jpg|link=Baron Zersetzung|1957: Industrialist and alleged crime boss [[Baron Zersetzung]] authorizes the [[Kyshtym disaster (nonfiction)]].
File:Baron Zersetzung.jpg|link=Baron Zersetzung|1957: Industrialist and alleged crime boss [[Baron Zersetzung]] authorizes the [[Kyshtym disaster (nonfiction)]].

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