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||1564 – Johannes Acronius Frisius, Dutch physician and mathematician (b. 1520)
||1564: Johannes Acronius Frisius dies ... physician and mathematician.


||1775 – Christian August Crusius, German philosopher and theologian (b. 1715) - anti Liebniz
||1775: Christian August Crusius dies ... philosopher and theologian ... anti Liebniz


||John Wilson (d. 18 October 1793) was an English mathematician. Wilson's theorem is named after him. Pic.
||1793: John Wilson dies ... mathematician. Wilson's theorem is named after him. Pic.


||Jean-Dominique, comte de Cassini (d. 18 October 1845) was a French astronomer, son of César-François Cassini de Thury. Pic.
||1799: Christian Friedrich Schönbein born ... chemist who is best known for inventing the fuel cell (1838) at the same time as William Robert Grove and his discoveries of guncotton and ozone. Pic.


||Alexander Nikolayevich Lodygin (b. 18 October 1847) was a Russian electrical engineer and inventor, one of inventors of the incandescent light bulb. Pic.
||1845: Jean-Dominique, comte de Cassini dies ... astronomer, son of César-François Cassini de Thury. Pic.


||1851 – Herman Melville's Moby-Dick is first published as The Whale by Richard Bentley of London.
||1847: Alexander Nikolayevich Lodygin born ... electrical engineer and inventor, one of inventors of the incandescent light bulb. Pic.


||1859 – Henri Bergson, French philosopher and theologian, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1941)
||1851: Herman Melville's ''Moby-Dick'' is first published as ''The Whale'' by Richard Bentley of London.


||1860 – The Second Opium War finally ends at the Convention of Peking with the ratification of the Treaty of Tientsin, an unequal treaty.
||1859: Henri Bergson born ... philosopher and theologian, Nobel Prize laureate.
 
||1860: The Second Opium War finally ends at the Convention of Peking with the ratification of the Treaty of Tientsin, an unequal treaty.


||1871 – Charles Babbage, English mathematician and engineer, invented the mechanical computer (b. 1791)
||1871 – Charles Babbage, English mathematician and engineer, invented the mechanical computer (b. 1791)
File:Charles Babbage by Antoine Claudet c1847-51.jpg|link=Charles Babbage (nonfiction)|1791: Polymath [[Charles Babbage (nonfiction)|Charles Babbage]] dies. He constructed mechanical computers which anticipated the concept of programmable digital computers.
File:Charles Babbage by Antoine Claudet c1847-51.jpg|link=Charles Babbage (nonfiction)|1791: Polymath [[Charles Babbage (nonfiction)|Charles Babbage]] dies. He constructed mechanical computers which anticipated the concept of programmable digital computers.


||1889 – Antonio Meucci, Italian-American engineer (b. 1808) - voice-communication apparatus Antonio Santi Giuseppe Meucci (d. 18 October 1889) was an Italian inventor and an associate of Giuseppe Garibaldi. Meucci is best known for developing a voice-communication apparatus that several sources credit as the first telephone.
||1889: Antonio Meucci dies ... engineer ... Meucci is best known for developing a voice-communication apparatus that several sources credit as the first telephone.


||1902 – Pascual Jordan, German physicist and theorist (d. 1980)
||1902 – Pascual Jordan, German physicist and theorist (d. 1980)

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  • 1791: Polymath Charles Babbage dies. He constructed mechanical computers which anticipated the concept of programmable digital computers.

    1791: Polymath Charles Babbage dies. He constructed mechanical computers which anticipated the concept of programmable digital computers.

  • 1919: Statistician and educator George E. P. Box born. He will be called "one of the great statistical minds of the 20th century".

    1919: Statistician and educator George E. P. Box born. He will be called "one of the great statistical minds of the 20th century".

  • 1931: Inventor, engineer, and businessman Thomas Edison dies. He developed the light bulb and the phonograph, among other inventions.

    1931: Inventor, engineer, and businessman Thomas Edison dies. He developed the light bulb and the phonograph, among other inventions.

  • 1945: The USSR's nuclear program receives plans for the United States plutonium bomb from Klaus Fuchs at the Los Alamos National Laboratory.

    1945: The USSR's nuclear program receives plans for the United States plutonium bomb from Klaus Fuchs at the Los Alamos National Laboratory.

  • 2017: Publication of Bioautography of a Chlorophyll Molecule generates new interest in organic golems.

    2017: Publication of Bioautography of a Chlorophyll Molecule generates new interest in organic golems.

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