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File:Jacob Bernoulli.jpg|link=Jacob Bernoulli (nonfiction)|1655: Mathematician [[Jacob Bernoulli (nonfiction)|Jacob Bernoulli]] born. He will discover the fundamental mathematical constant ''e'', and make important contributions to the field of probability.
File:Jacob Bernoulli.jpg|link=Jacob Bernoulli (nonfiction)|1655: Mathematician [[Jacob Bernoulli (nonfiction)|Jacob Bernoulli]] born. He will discover the fundamental mathematical constant ''e'', and make important contributions to the field of probability.
||1689 – Seth Ward, English bishop, mathematician, and astronomer (b. 1617)
||1721 – The Committee of Inquiry on the South Sea Bubble publishes its findings.
||1731 – Étienne François Geoffroy, French physician and chemist (b. 1672)
||1745 – Jacques-Etienne Montgolfier, French co-inventor of the hot air balloon (d. 1799)
||1795 – Anselme Payen, French chemist and academic (d. 1871)
||1807 – Joseph Petzval, German-Hungarian mathematician and physicist (d. 1891)
||1838 – Alfred Vail demonstrates a telegraph system using dots and dashes (this is the forerunner of Morse code).
||1842 – Clarence King, American geologist, mountaineer, and critic (d. 1901) Diamond Hoax
||1852 – Louis Braille, French educator, invented Braille (b. 1809)
||1884 – Gregor Mendel, Czech geneticist and botanist (b. 1822)
||1912 – German geophysicist Alfred Wegener first presents his theory of continental drift.


File:Georg Cantor 1894.png|link=Georg Cantor (nonfiction)|1918: Mathematician and philosopher [[Georg Cantor (nonfiction)|Georg Cantor]] dies.  He invented [[Set theory (nonfiction)|set theory]], a fundamental area of mathematical inquiry.
File:Georg Cantor 1894.png|link=Georg Cantor (nonfiction)|1918: Mathematician and philosopher [[Georg Cantor (nonfiction)|Georg Cantor]] dies.  He invented [[Set theory (nonfiction)|set theory]], a fundamental area of mathematical inquiry.
File:John Hoyland Lebanon.jpg|link=John Hoyland (nonfiction)|2015: [[John Hoyland (nonfiction)|John Hoyland's]] ''Lebanon'' spontaneously generates new class of [[Gnomon algorithm]].
 
||1920 – John Maynard Smith, English biologist and geneticist (d. 2004)
 
||1921 – Marianne Grunberg-Manago, Russian-French biochemist and academic (d. 2013)
 
||1922 – Jakob Rosanes, Ukrainian-German mathematician and chess player (b. 1842)
 
||1927 – Jesse Leonard Steinfeld, American physician and academic, 11th Surgeon General of the United States (d. 2014)
 
||1930 – W. Wallace Cleland, American biochemist and educator (d. 2013)
 
File:Thomas Edison.jpg|link=Thomas Edison (nonfiction)|1931: Inventor [[Thomas Edison (nonfiction)|Thomas Edison]] signs his last patent application.
 
||1933 – Oleg Grigoryevich Makarov, Russian engineer and astronaut (d. 2003)
 
||1945 – Vladimir Vernadsky, Russian mineralogist and chemist (b. 1863)
 
||1955 – Susan B. Horwitz, American computer scientist and academic (d. 2014)
 
||1990 – Pavel Cherenkov, Russian physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1904)
 
||2000 – Don Martin, American cartoonist (b. 1931)
 
||2012 – Roger Boisjoly, American aerodynamicist and engineer (b. 1938)
 
|File:John Hoyland Lebanon.jpg|link=John Hoyland (nonfiction)|2015: [[John Hoyland (nonfiction)|John Hoyland's]] ''Lebanon'' spontaneously generates new class of [[Gnomon algorithm]].
 
File:Color commentators.jpg|link=Color commentator (nonfiction)|2015: [[Color commentator (nonfiction)|Color commentators]] call [[John Hoyland (nonfiction)|John Hoyland's]] ''Lebanon'' "colorful in a way that defies description."
File:Color commentators.jpg|link=Color commentator (nonfiction)|2015: [[Color commentator (nonfiction)|Color commentators]] call [[John Hoyland (nonfiction)|John Hoyland's]] ''Lebanon'' "colorful in a way that defies description."
File:Comparison_of_bergamot_oils_using_GC-MS_analysis_with_enantiomeric_column.png|2016: Cold weather depresses [[Bergamot essential oil (nonfiction)|Bergamot oil]] market, industry analysts predict spike in [[Chromatography (nonfiction)|gas chromatography]] prices.
File:Comparison_of_bergamot_oils_using_GC-MS_analysis_with_enantiomeric_column.png|2016: Cold weather depresses [[Bergamot essential oil (nonfiction)|Bergamot oil]] market, industry analysts predict spike in [[Chromatography (nonfiction)|gas chromatography]] prices.
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  • 1561: Mathematician and physicist Thomas Fincke born. He will introduce the modern names of the trigonometric functions tangent and secant.

    1561: Mathematician and physicist Thomas Fincke born. He will introduce the modern names of the trigonometric functions tangent and secant.

  • 1655: Mathematician Jacob Bernoulli born. He will discover the fundamental mathematical constant e, and make important contributions to the field of probability.

    1655: Mathematician Jacob Bernoulli born. He will discover the fundamental mathematical constant e, and make important contributions to the field of probability.

  • 1918: Mathematician and philosopher Georg Cantor dies. He invented set theory, a fundamental area of mathematical inquiry.

    1918: Mathematician and philosopher Georg Cantor dies. He invented set theory, a fundamental area of mathematical inquiry.

  • 1931: Inventor Thomas Edison signs his last patent application.

    1931: Inventor Thomas Edison signs his last patent application.

  • 2015: Color commentators call John Hoyland's Lebanon "colorful in a way that defies description."

    2015: Color commentators call John Hoyland's Lebanon "colorful in a way that defies description."

  • 2016: Cold weather depresses Bergamot oil market, industry analysts predict spike in gas chromatography prices.

    2016: Cold weather depresses Bergamot oil market, industry analysts predict spike in gas chromatography prices.

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