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| ||1472: Leon Battista Alberti dies ... humanist author, artist, architect, poet, priest, linguist, philosopher and cryptographer; he epitomised the Renaissance Man. Pic (engraving).
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| File:Oliver Cromwell by Samuel Cooper.jpg|link=Oliver Cromwell (nonfiction)|1599: [[Oliver Cromwell (nonfiction)|Oliver Cromwell]] born. He will become a military and political leader and later Lord Protector of the Commonwealth of England, Scotland, and Ireland.
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| File:James Ferguson.jpg|link=James Ferguson (nonfiction)|1710: Astronomer, instrument maker, and author [[James Ferguson (nonfiction)|James Ferguson]] born. | | File:James Ferguson.jpg|link=James Ferguson (nonfiction)|1710: Astronomer, instrument maker, and author [[James Ferguson (nonfiction)|James Ferguson]] born. |
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| File:Anders_Celsius.jpg|link=Anders Celsius (nonfiction)|1744: Astronomer, physicist, and mathematician [[Anders Celsius (nonfiction)|Anders Celsius]] dies. In 1742 he proposed the Celsius temperature scale which today bears his name.
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| File:Jean-Antoine Nollet.jpg|link=Jean-Antoine Nollet (nonfiction)|1770: Priest and physicist [[Jean-Antoine Nollet (nonfiction)|Jean-Antoine Nollet]] dies. In 1746 he gathered about two hundred monks into a circle about a mile (1.6 km) in circumference, with pieces of iron wire connecting them. He then discharged a battery of Leyden jars through the human chain and observed that each man reacted at substantially the same time to the electric shock, showing that the speed of electricity's propagation was very high.
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| ||1792: "La Marseillaise" (the French national anthem) is composed by Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle.
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| File:Edouard-Léon Scott de Martinville.jpg|link=Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville (nonfiction)|1817: Printer, bookseller, and inventor [[Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville (nonfiction)|Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville]] born. He will invent the phonoautograph, which records an audio signal as a photographic image. | | File:Edouard-Léon Scott de Martinville.jpg|link=Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville (nonfiction)|1817: Printer, bookseller, and inventor [[Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville (nonfiction)|Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville]] born. He will invent the phonoautograph, which records an audio signal as a photographic image. |
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| File:Simeon Poisson.jpg|link=Siméon Denis Poisson (nonfiction)|1840: Mathematician and physicist [[Siméon Denis Poisson (nonfiction)|Siméon Denis Poisson]] dies. His memoirs on the theory of electricity and magnetism constitute a new branch of mathematical physics.
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| ||1849: Felix Klein born ... mathematician and academic ... work in group theory, complex analysis, non-Euclidean geometry, and on the connections between geometry and group theory. His 1872 Erlangen Program, classifying geometries by their underlying symmetry groups, was a highly influential synthesis of much of the mathematics of the day. Pic.
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| ||1854: Charles Sumner Tainter born ... engineer and inventor ... scientific instrument maker, engineer and inventor, best known for his collaborations with Alexander Graham Bell, Chichester Bell, Alexander's father-in-law Gardiner Hubbard, and for his significant improvements to Thomas Edison's phonograph, resulting in the Graphophone, one version of which was the first Dictaphone. Pic.
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| ||1859: British and French engineers break ground for the Suez Canal.
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| ||1868: John Moisant born ... pilot and engineer.
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| File:Guglielmo Marconi.jpg|link=Guglielmo Marconi (nonfiction)|1874: Businessman and inventor [[Guglielmo Marconi (nonfiction)|Guglielmo Marconi]] born. He will share the 1909 Nobel Prize in Physics with Karl Ferdinand Braun "in recognition of their contributions to the development of wireless telegraphy". | | File:Guglielmo Marconi.jpg|link=Guglielmo Marconi (nonfiction)|1874: Businessman and inventor [[Guglielmo Marconi (nonfiction)|Guglielmo Marconi]] born. He will share the 1909 Nobel Prize in Physics with Karl Ferdinand Braun "in recognition of their contributions to the development of wireless telegraphy". |
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| ||1882: Johann Karl Friedrich Zöllner born ... astrophysicist who studied optical illusions. He was also an early psychical investigator. Pic.
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| ||1891: Giovanni Caselli born ... physicist, inventor and priest. He is the inventor of the pantelegraph (a.k.a. Universal Telegraph or "all-purpose telegraph"), the predecessor of the modern fax machine. The world's first practical operating facsimile machine ("fax") system put into use was by Caselli. Pic.
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| ||1900: Wolfgang Pauli born ... physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate.
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| File:Andrey Kolmogorov.jpg|link=Andrey Kolmogorov (nonfiction)|1903: Mathematician and academic [[Andrey Kolmogorov (nonfiction)|Andrey Kolmogorov]] born. He will make significant contributions to the mathematics of probability theory, topology, intuitionistic logic, turbulence, classical mechanics, algorithmic information theory and computational complexity. | | File:Andrey Kolmogorov.jpg|link=Andrey Kolmogorov (nonfiction)|1903: Mathematician and academic [[Andrey Kolmogorov (nonfiction)|Andrey Kolmogorov]] born. He will make significant contributions to the mathematics of probability theory, topology, intuitionistic logic, turbulence, classical mechanics, algorithmic information theory and computational complexity. |
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| ||1912: Donald C. Spencer born ... mathematician, known for work on deformation theory of structures arising in differential geometry, and on several complex variables from the point of view of partial differential equations. Pic: https://www.geni.com/people/Donald-Spencer/6000000000566571886
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| ||1918: Gérard de Vaucouleurs born ... astronomer and academic. His specialty included reanalyzing Hubble and Sandage's galaxy atlas and recomputing the distance measurements utilizing a method of averaging many different kinds of metrics such as luminosity, the diameters of ring galaxies, brightest star clusters, etc., in a method he called "spreading the risks." Pic.
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| ||1931: Felix Berezin born ... mathematician and physicist known for his contributions to the theory of supersymmetry and supermanifolds as well as to the path integral formulation of quantum field theory. Pic: https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%91%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%B5%D0%B7%D0%B8%D0%BD,_%D0%A4%D0%B5%D0%BB%D0%B8%D0%BA%D1%81_%D0%90%D0%BB%D0%B5%D0%BA%D1%81%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B4%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%B8%D1%87
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| ||1938: Roger Boisjoly born ... aerodynamicist and engineer. He is best known for having raised strenuous objections to the launch of the Space Shuttle Challenger months before the loss of the spacecraft and its crew in January 1986. Boisjoly correctly predicted, based on earlier flight data, that the O-rings on the rocket boosters would fail if the shuttle launched in cold weather. Pic.
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| ||1942: Akira Tonomura born ... physicist, best known for his development of electron holography and his experimental verification of the Aharonov–Bohm effect. Pic: https://alchetron.com/Akira-Tonomura
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| ||1953: Francis Crick and James Watson publish "Molecular Structure of Nucleic Acids: A Structure for Deoxyribose Nucleic Acid" describing the double helix structure of DNA.
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| File:The Eel Fighting Neptune Slaughter.jpg|link=The Eel Fighting Neptune Slaughter|1960: Mathematician, art critic, and alleged time-traveller [[The Eel]] stops aquatic cryptid and alleged supervillain [[Neptune Slaughter]] from destroying the [[Operation Sandblast (nonfiction)|United States Navy submarine USS ''Triton'']]. | | File:The Eel Fighting Neptune Slaughter.jpg|link=The Eel Fighting Neptune Slaughter|1960: Mathematician, art critic, and alleged time-traveller [[The Eel]] stops aquatic cryptid and alleged supervillain [[Neptune Slaughter]] from destroying the [[Operation Sandblast (nonfiction)|United States Navy submarine USS ''Triton'']]. |
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| File:Operation Sandblast track.jpg|link=Operation Sandblast (nonfiction)|1960: The United States Navy submarine USS ''Triton'' completes [[Operation Sandblast (nonfiction)|Operation Sandblast]], the first submerged circumnavigation of the globe. | | File:Operation Sandblast track.jpg|link=Operation Sandblast (nonfiction)|1960: The United States Navy submarine USS ''Triton'' completes [[Operation Sandblast (nonfiction)|Operation Sandblast]], the first submerged circumnavigation of the globe. |
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| ||1981: More than 100 workers are exposed to radiation during repairs of a nuclear power plant in Tsuruga, Japan.
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| |File:Ultravore.jpg|link=Ultravore|1984: Synthetic organism [[Ultravore]] consumes two hundred and fifty terabytes of the transdimensional drug [[Clandestiphrine]] with no apparent ill effect.
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| File:Pioneer 10 construction.jpg|link=Pioneer 10 (nonfiction)|1983: [[Pioneer 10 (nonfiction)|Pioneer 10]] travels beyond Pluto's orbit.
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| ||1996: Saul Bass dies ... American graphic designer and director. Pic.
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| ||1997: Bernard Vonnegut dies ... atmospheric scientist credited with discovering that silver iodide could be used effectively in cloud seeding to produce snow and rain. He was the older brother of American novelist Kurt Vonnegut. Pic: http://www.atmos.albany.edu/daes/bvonn/bvonnegut.html
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| ||2000: Lucien Marie Le Cam dies ... mathematician and statistician. Pic.
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| ||2002: Athanasios Papoulis dies ... engineer and applied mathematician. Pic.
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| ||2014: Barbara Fiske Calhoun dies ... cartoonist and painter. Pic search: https://www.google.com/search?q=Barbara+Fiske+Calhoun
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