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||1441 – Roger Bolingbroke, English cleric, astronomer, astrologer, magister and alleged necromancer
||1571 – Hippolytus Guarinonius, Italian physician and polymath (d. 1654)
||1647 – Pierre Bayle, French philosopher and author (d. 1706)
File:Bartolomeu Lourenço de Gusmão.jpg|link=Bartolomeu de Gusmão (nonfiction)|1724: Inventor and priest [[Bartolomeu de Gusmão (nonfiction)|Bartolomeu de Gusmão]] dies.
File:Bartolomeu Lourenço de Gusmão.jpg|link=Bartolomeu de Gusmão (nonfiction)|1724: Inventor and priest [[Bartolomeu de Gusmão (nonfiction)|Bartolomeu de Gusmão]] dies.
||1727 – Philibert Commerson, French physician and explorer (d. 1773)
||1787 – Louis Daguerre, French physicist and photographer, developed the daguerreotype (d. 1851)
||1830 – Adam Weishaupt, German philosopher and academic, founded the Illuminati (b. 1748)
||1839 – August Kundt, German physicist and educator (d. 1894)
||1865 – Mark Twain's short story "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County" is published in the New York Saturday Press.
||1897 – Patrick Blackett, Baron Blackett, English physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1974)
||1901 – George Gallup, American statistician and academic (d. 1984)
||1906 – George Wald, American neurobiologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1997)
||1928 – Release of the animated short Steamboat Willie, the first fully synchronized sound cartoon, directed by Walt Disney and Ub Iwerks, featuring the third appearances of cartoon characters Mickey Mouse and Minnie Mouse. This is considered by the Disney corporation to be Mickey's birthday.
||1938 – Trade union members elect John L. Lewis as the first president of the Congress of Industrial Organizations.
||1941 – Walther Nernst, German chemist and physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1864)
||1956 – Jim Weirich, American computer scientist, developed Rake Software (d. 2014)


File:Aleksandr Khinchin.gif|link=Aleksandr Khinchin (nonfiction)|1959: Mathematician and academic [[Aleksandr Khinchin (nonfiction)|Aleksandr Khinchin]] dies. He was one of the founders of modern probability theory.
File:Aleksandr Khinchin.gif|link=Aleksandr Khinchin (nonfiction)|1959: Mathematician and academic [[Aleksandr Khinchin (nonfiction)|Aleksandr Khinchin]] dies. He was one of the founders of modern probability theory.


File:Jekyll_Perfume.png|link=Jekyll (perfume)|[[Jekyll (perfume)|Jekyll]], the "fragrance for sociopaths", announces record sales.
File:Niels Bohr.jpg|link=Niels Bohr (nonfiction)|1962: Physicist and philosopher [[Niels Bohr (nonfiction)|Niels Bohr]] born. He will make foundational contributions to understanding atomic structure and quantum theory, for which he will receive the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1922.
File:Gheorghe Marinescu science film 1899.jpg|link=Documentary film (nonfiction)|[[Documentary film (nonfiction)|Documentary film]] says it is not ready to retire.
 
File:Do_Not_Tease_Monster_by_Karl_Jones_800x600.jpg|link=Do Not Tease Monster (nonfiction)|''[[Do Not Tease Monster]]'' means what it says, warn experts.
||1963 – The first push-button telephone goes into service.
File:Azerbaijan-monster-wants-lapilli-soup.jpg|link=[[Lapilli soup]]|[[Lapilli soup]] is "best soup in the world," according to new survey of [[Monster (nonfiction)|monsters]].
 
File:Kells genealogy of Christ.jpg|link=Uncial script (nonfiction)|[[Uncial script (nonfiction)|Uncial script]] poised for comeback, according to computational typography theory.
||1978 – In Jonestown, Guyana, Jim Jones led his Peoples Temple to a mass murder–suicide that claimed 918 lives in all, 909 of them in Jonestown itself, including over 270 children. Congressman Leo Ryan is murdered by members of the Peoples Temple hours earlier.
File:Lightning striking the Eiffel Tower - NOAA.jpg|link=Lightning (nonfiction)|[[Lightning (nonfiction)|Lightning]] apologizes for striking Eiffel tower.
 
File:Hypercube.svg|link=The Boxes|Supervillain [[The Boxes]] announces plan to destroy the world "for its own good."
||2004 – Robert Bacher, American physicist and academic (b. 1905)
File:Thomas Carlyle manuscript burning Japan.png|link=Writer (nonfiction)|[[Writer (nonfiction)|Writer]] appalled by self-immolation of book.
 
||2013 – NASA launches the MAVEN probe to Mars.
 
File:Jekyll_Perfume.png|link=Jekyll (perfume)|2017: [[Jekyll (perfume)|Jekyll]], the "fragrance for sociopaths", announces record sales.
 
|File:Gheorghe Marinescu science film 1899.jpg|link=Documentary film (nonfiction)|[[Documentary film (nonfiction)|Documentary film]] says it is not ready to retire.
|File:Do_Not_Tease_Monster_by_Karl_Jones_800x600.jpg|link=Do Not Tease Monster (nonfiction)|''[[Do Not Tease Monster]]'' means what it says, warn experts.
|File:Azerbaijan-monster-wants-lapilli-soup.jpg|link=[[Lapilli soup]]|[[Lapilli soup]] is "best soup in the world," according to new survey of [[Monster (nonfiction)|monsters]].
|File:Kells genealogy of Christ.jpg|link=Uncial script (nonfiction)|[[Uncial script (nonfiction)|Uncial script]] poised for comeback, according to computational typography theory.
|File:Lightning striking the Eiffel Tower - NOAA.jpg|link=Lightning (nonfiction)|[[Lightning (nonfiction)|Lightning]] apologizes for striking Eiffel tower.
|File:Hypercube.svg|link=The Boxes|Supervillain [[The Boxes]] announces plan to destroy the world "for its own good."
|File:Thomas Carlyle manuscript burning Japan.png|link=Writer (nonfiction)|[[Writer (nonfiction)|Writer]] appalled by self-immolation of book.
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Revision as of 19:04, 7 August 2017

  • 1724: Inventor and priest Bartolomeu de Gusmão dies.

    1724: Inventor and priest Bartolomeu de Gusmão dies.

  • 1959: Mathematician and academic Aleksandr Khinchin dies. He was one of the founders of modern probability theory.

    1959: Mathematician and academic Aleksandr Khinchin dies. He was one of the founders of modern probability theory.

  • 1962: Physicist and philosopher Niels Bohr born. He will make foundational contributions to understanding atomic structure and quantum theory, for which he will receive the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1922.

    1962: Physicist and philosopher Niels Bohr born. He will make foundational contributions to understanding atomic structure and quantum theory, for which he will receive the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1922.

  • 2017: Jekyll, the "fragrance for sociopaths", announces record sales.

    2017: Jekyll, the "fragrance for sociopaths", announces record sales.

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