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File:Title page of the Astrolabium of Johannes Engel, printed by Johann Emerich, Venice 1494.jpg|link=Johannes Engel (nonfiction)|1494: Doctor, astronomer, and crime-fighter [[Johannes Engel (nonfiction)|Johannes Engel]] publishes an almanac which uses [[Gnomon algorithm functions]] to predict [[crimes against astronomical constants]] with unprecedented accuracy.


File:Ismaël Boulliau.jpg|link=Ismaël Bullialdus (nonfiction)|1605: Mathematician and astronomer [[Ismaël Bullialdus (nonfiction)|Ismaël Bullialdus]] born. He will be an active member of the Republic of Letters, and an early defender of the ideas of Copernicus, Kepler and Galileo.
File:Ismaël Boulliau.jpg|link=Ismaël Bullialdus (nonfiction)|1605: Mathematician and astronomer [[Ismaël Bullialdus (nonfiction)|Ismaël Bullialdus]] born. He will be an active member of the Republic of Letters, and an early defender of the ideas of Copernicus, Kepler and Galileo.
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||1694: Gabriel Mouton dies ... mathematician and theologian. No DOB. Pic search.
||1694: Gabriel Mouton dies ... mathematician and theologian. No DOB. Pic search.
||1761: Ferdinand François Désiré Budan de Boislaurent born ... amateur mathematician, best known for a tract, Nouvelle méthode pour la résolution des équations numériques, first published in Paris in 1807, but based on work from 1803. Pic (book cover).


||1819: Engineer and artist Narcís Monturiol born. He will invent the first air-independent and combustion-engine-driven submarine. Pic.
||1819: Engineer and artist Narcís Monturiol born. He will invent the first air-independent and combustion-engine-driven submarine. Pic.
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||1913: Oscar Buneman born ... made advances in science, engineering, and mathematics. Buneman was a pioneer of computational plasma physics and plasma simulation. Pic: http://www.physics.ucla.edu/icnsp/buneman.htm
||1913: Oscar Buneman born ... made advances in science, engineering, and mathematics. Buneman was a pioneer of computational plasma physics and plasma simulation. Pic: http://www.physics.ucla.edu/icnsp/buneman.htm
File:Ascleplius Myrmidon Ypres ruins 1915.jpg|link=Asclepius Myrmidon|1916:  Time-travelling physician-warrior [[Asclepius Myrmidon]] arrives during a chemical warfare attack in western Europe, sets up emergency field hospital.


||1925: Seymour Cray born ... computer scientist, founded the CRAY Computer Company.
||1925: Seymour Cray born ... computer scientist, founded the CRAY Computer Company.
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||1935: William Kennedy Dickson dies ... inventor who devised an early motion picture camera under the employment of Thomas Edison (post-dating the work of Louis Le Prince). Pic.
||1935: William Kennedy Dickson dies ... inventor who devised an early motion picture camera under the employment of Thomas Edison (post-dating the work of Louis Le Prince). Pic.
||1949: Mathematician Karl Frithiof Sundman dies - used analytic methods to prove the existence of a convergent infinite series solution to the three-body problem in two papers published in 1907 and 1909.


File:Edwin Hubble.jpg|link=Edwin Hubble (nonfiction)|1953: Astronomer and cosmologist [[Edwin Hubble (nonfiction)|Edwin Hubble]] dies. He discovered the fact that the Andromeda "nebula" is actually another island galaxy far outside of our own Milky Way.
File:Edwin Hubble.jpg|link=Edwin Hubble (nonfiction)|1953: Astronomer and cosmologist [[Edwin Hubble (nonfiction)|Edwin Hubble]] dies. He discovered the fact that the Andromeda "nebula" is actually another island galaxy far outside of our own Milky Way.
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||2008: SpaceX launches the first private spacecraft, the Falcon 1 into orbit.
||2008: SpaceX launches the first private spacecraft, the Falcon 1 into orbit.
File:Blue Green Blossom.jpg|link=Blue Green Blossom (nonfiction)|2016: ''[[Blue Green Blossom (nonfiction)|Blue Green Blossom]]'' voted Picture of the Day by the citizens of [[New Minneapolis, Canada]].


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  • 1605: Mathematician and astronomer Ismaël Bullialdus born. He will be an active member of the Republic of Letters, and an early defender of the ideas of Copernicus, Kepler and Galileo.

    1605: Mathematician and astronomer Ismaël Bullialdus born. He will be an active member of the Republic of Letters, and an early defender of the ideas of Copernicus, Kepler and Galileo.

  • 1890 (or 1892): Electrical engineer Florence Violet McKenzie born. She will be was Australia's first female electrical engineer, founder of the Women's Emergency Signalling Corps (WESC), and lifelong promoter for technical education for women.

    1890 (or 1892): Electrical engineer Florence Violet McKenzie born. She will be was Australia's first female electrical engineer, founder of the Women's Emergency Signalling Corps (WESC), and lifelong promoter for technical education for women.

  • 1925: Physicist and mathematician Martin David Kruskal born. Kruskal will make fundamental contributions in many areas of mathematics and science, including the discovery and theory of solitons.

    1925: Physicist and mathematician Martin David Kruskal born. Kruskal will make fundamental contributions in many areas of mathematics and science, including the discovery and theory of solitons.

  • 1953: Astronomer and cosmologist Edwin Hubble dies. He discovered the fact that the Andromeda "nebula" is actually another island galaxy far outside of our own Milky Way.

    1953: Astronomer and cosmologist Edwin Hubble dies. He discovered the fact that the Andromeda "nebula" is actually another island galaxy far outside of our own Milky Way.

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