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File:Marin Mersenne.jpg|link=Marin Mersenne (nonfiction)|1648: Mathematician, theologian, and philosopher Marin Mersenne dies. He is remembered as the "father of acoustics". | File:Marin Mersenne.jpg|link=Marin Mersenne (nonfiction)|1648: Mathematician, theologian, and philosopher Marin Mersenne dies. He is remembered as the "father of acoustics". | ||
||1681: Mathematician Michelangelo Ricci created Cardinal | File:Michelangelo Ricci.jpg|link=Michelangelo Ricci (nonfiction)|1681: Mathematician [[Michelangelo Ricci (nonfiction)|Michelangelo Ricci]] created Cardinal. | ||
||1687: Bahāʾ al‐Dīn Muḥammad ibn Ḥusayn al‐ʿĀmilī dies ... scholar, philosopher, architect, mathematician, astronomer and poet. He was one of the earliest astronomers in the Islamic world to suggest the possibility of the Earth's movement prior to the spread of the Copernican theory. Pic: tapestry? | ||1687: Bahāʾ al‐Dīn Muḥammad ibn Ḥusayn al‐ʿĀmilī dies ... scholar, philosopher, architect, mathematician, astronomer and poet. He was one of the earliest astronomers in the Islamic world to suggest the possibility of the Earth's movement prior to the spread of the Copernican theory. Pic: tapestry? | ||
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||1858: Carl Auer von Welsbach born ... scientist and inventor, who had a talent not only for discovering advances, but also for turning them into commercially successful products. He is particularly well known for his work on rare-earth elements, which led to the development of the flint used in modern lighters, the gas mantle, which brought light to the streets of Europe in the late 19th century, and for the development of the metal-filament light bulb. Pic. | ||1858: Carl Auer von Welsbach born ... scientist and inventor, who had a talent not only for discovering advances, but also for turning them into commercially successful products. He is particularly well known for his work on rare-earth elements, which led to the development of the flint used in modern lighters, the gas mantle, which brought light to the streets of Europe in the late 19th century, and for the development of the metal-filament light bulb. Pic. | ||
||1861: Lazăr Edeleanu born . | File:Lazăr Edeleanu.png|link=Lazăr Edeleanu (nonfiction)|1861: Chemist [[Lazăr Edeleanu (nonfiction)|Lazăr Edeleanu]] born. Edeleanu will invent the modern method of refining crude oil, and will be the first chemist to synthesize amphetamine. | ||
||1877: Francis William Aston born ... chemist and physicist, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic. | ||1877: Francis William Aston born ... chemist and physicist, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic. | ||
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||1895: Engelbert Zaschka born ... engineer and designer, invented the Human-powered aircraft. Pic (cool). | ||1895: Engelbert Zaschka born ... engineer and designer, invented the Human-powered aircraft. Pic (cool). | ||
||1902: Astronomer Dirk Brouwer born. He specialized in celestial mechanics and together with Gerald Clemence wrote the textbook Methods of Celestial Mechanics. Pic search | ||1902: Astronomer Dirk Brouwer born. He specialized in celestial mechanics and together with Gerald Clemence wrote the textbook Methods of Celestial Mechanics. Pic search. | ||
||1906: Ernst Peschl born ... mathematician. His main areas of research were geometric complex analysis, partial differential equations, and the theory of functions of several complex variables. Pic. | ||1906: Ernst Peschl born ... mathematician. His main areas of research were geometric complex analysis, partial differential equations, and the theory of functions of several complex variables. Pic. | ||
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||1910: Pao-Lu Hsu born ... mathematician noted for his work in probability theory and statistics. Pic. | ||1910: Pao-Lu Hsu born ... mathematician noted for his work in probability theory and statistics. Pic. | ||
||1919: Hilda Hänchen born ... physicist and academic. Pic search | ||1919: Hilda Hänchen born ... physicist and academic. Pic search. | ||
||1922: American statesman and writer Melvin Lairdborn born. He was a U.S. congressman from Wisconsin from 1953 to 1969 before serving as Secretary of Defense from 1969 to 1973 under President Richard Nixon. Laird was instrumental in forming the administration's policy of withdrawing U.S. soldiers from the Vietnam War; he coined the expression "Vietnamization," referring to the process of transferring more responsibility for combat to the South Vietnamese forces. Pic. | ||1922: American statesman and writer Melvin Lairdborn born. He was a U.S. congressman from Wisconsin from 1953 to 1969 before serving as Secretary of Defense from 1969 to 1973 under President Richard Nixon. Laird was instrumental in forming the administration's policy of withdrawing U.S. soldiers from the Vietnam War; he coined the expression "Vietnamization," referring to the process of transferring more responsibility for combat to the South Vietnamese forces. Pic. | ||
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||1988: Luis Walter Alvarez dies ... physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic. | ||1988: Luis Walter Alvarez dies ... physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic. | ||
||1991: Otl Aicher dies ... graphic designer and typographer ... designed pictograms for the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich that proved influential on the use of stick figures for public signage, as well as designing the typeface Rotis. Pic search | ||1991: Otl Aicher dies ... graphic designer and typographer ... designed pictograms for the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich that proved influential on the use of stick figures for public signage, as well as designing the typeface Rotis. Pic search. | ||
||2008: Oded Schramm dies ... mathematician known for the invention of the Schramm–Loewner evolution (SLE) and for working at the intersection of conformal field theory and probability theory. Pic. | ||2008: Oded Schramm dies ... mathematician known for the invention of the Schramm–Loewner evolution (SLE) and for working at the intersection of conformal field theory and probability theory. Pic. | ||
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||2014: Joseph Shivers dies ... chemist and academic, developed spandex. Pic. | ||2014: Joseph Shivers dies ... chemist and academic, developed spandex. Pic. | ||
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1599: Explorer Cornelis de Houtman dies. He discovered a new sea route from Europe to Indonesia, beginning the Dutch spice trade.
1648: Mathematician, theologian, and philosopher Marin Mersenne dies. He is remembered as the "father of acoustics".
1681: Mathematician Michelangelo Ricci created Cardinal.
1861: Chemist Lazăr Edeleanu born. Edeleanu will invent the modern method of refining crude oil, and will be the first chemist to synthesize amphetamine.
1938: Asclepius Myrmidon publishes On Halting Problems, about the computational and medical problem of determining, from a description of an arbitrary computer program and an input, whether the program will finish running or continue to run forever.
1982: Mathematician and academic Haskell Curry dies. He is known for his work in combinatory logic.