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||1452 – Abraham Zacuto, Jewish astronomer, astrologer, mathematician, rabbi and historian (d. 1515). Pic Wikipedia: page, tables. Pic not Wikipedia: https://alchetron.com/Abraham-Zacuto
||1452: Abraham Zacuto born ... astronomer, astrologer, mathematician, rabbi and historian ... Pic REVIEW Wikipedia: page, tables. Pic not Wikipedia: https://alchetron.com/Abraham-Zacuto


||1624 – The president of Louis XIII of France's royal council is arrested, leaving Cardinal Richelieu in the role of the King's principal minister.
||1624: The president of Louis XIII of France's royal council is arrested, leaving Cardinal Richelieu in the role of the King's principal minister.


||1810 – Étienne Louis Geoffroy, French pharmacist and entomologist (b. 1725). Pic: page of insects.
||1810: Étienne Louis Geoffroy dies ... pharmacist and entomologist. Pic: page of insects.


File:William Blake by John Flaxman c1804.jpg|link=William Blake (nonfiction)|1827: Poet, painter, and printmaker [[William Blake (nonfiction)|William Blake]] dies.  
File:William Blake by John Flaxman c1804.jpg|link=William Blake (nonfiction)|1827: Poet, painter, and printmaker [[William Blake (nonfiction)|William Blake]] dies.  


||Johann Christian Martin Bartels (12 August 1769 – 20 December [O.S. 7 December] 1836) was a German mathematician. He was the tutor of Carl Friedrich Gauss in Brunswick and the educator of Lobachevsky at the University of Kazan.
||1769: Johann Christian Martin Bartels born ... mathematician. He was the tutor of Carl Friedrich Gauss in Brunswick and the educator of Lobachevsky at the University of Kazan.


||1848 – George Stephenson, English engineer and academic (b. 1781)
||1848: George Stephenson dies ... engineer and academic.


||1851 – Isaac Singer is granted a patent for his sewing machine.
||1851: Isaac Singer is granted a patent for his sewing machine.


||1857: William Daniel Conybeare born ... geologist, palaeontologist and clergyman. He is probably best known for his ground-breaking work on marine reptile fossils in the 1820s, including important papers for the Geological Society of London on ichthyosaur anatomy and the first published scientific description of a plesiosaur. Pic.
||1857: William Daniel Conybeare born ... geologist, palaeontologist and clergyman. He is probably best known for his ground-breaking work on marine reptile fossils in the 1820s, including important papers for the Geological Society of London on ichthyosaur anatomy and the first published scientific description of a plesiosaur. Pic.


||1861 – Eliphalet Remington, American inventor and businessman, founded Remington Arms (b. 1793)
||1861: Eliphalet Remington dies ... inventor and businessman, founded Remington Arms.


File:Confederate submarine H. L. Hunley.jpg|link=H. L. Hunley (nonfiction)|1863: Confederate submarine [[H. L. Hunley (nonfiction)|H. L. Hunley]] arrives at Charleston, South Carolina by rail.
File:Confederate submarine H. L. Hunley.jpg|link=H. L. Hunley (nonfiction)|1863: Confederate submarine [[H. L. Hunley (nonfiction)|H. L. Hunley]] arrives at Charleston, South Carolina by rail.
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File:Joseph Lister 1902.jpg|link=Joseph Lister (nonfiction)|1865: [[Joseph Lister (nonfiction)|Joseph Lister]], British surgeon and scientist, performs first antiseptic surgery, using carbolic acid (phenol) as a disinfectant.
File:Joseph Lister 1902.jpg|link=Joseph Lister (nonfiction)|1865: [[Joseph Lister (nonfiction)|Joseph Lister]], British surgeon and scientist, performs first antiseptic surgery, using carbolic acid (phenol) as a disinfectant.


||1885 – Jean Cabannes, French physicist and academic (d. 1959)
||1885: Jean Cabannes born ... physicist and academic.


File:Erwin Schrödinger (1933).jpg|link=Erwin Schrödinger (nonfiction)|1887: Physicist and academic [[Erwin Schrödinger (nonfiction)|Erwin Schrödinger]] born. He will be awarded the 1933 Nobel Prize for Physics for the formulation of the Schrödinger equation.
File:Erwin Schrödinger (1933).jpg|link=Erwin Schrödinger (nonfiction)|1887: Physicist and academic [[Erwin Schrödinger (nonfiction)|Erwin Schrödinger]] born. He will be awarded the 1933 Nobel Prize for Physics for the formulation of the Schrödinger equation.
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||1888: Bertha Benz, wife of inventor Karl Benz, made the first motor tour. Without her husband's knowledge, she borrowed one of his cars and with their teenage sons travelled 180 km to visit relatives for 5 days. She drove her sons, Richard and Eugen, 14 and 15 years old, in Benz's newly-constructed “Patent Motorwagen” automobile from Mannheim to Pforzheim She thus became the first person to drive an automobile over more than just a very short distance. This was a distance of more than 106 km (more than fifty miles). Distances traveled before this trip were short and merely trials with mechanical assistants.
||1888: Bertha Benz, wife of inventor Karl Benz, made the first motor tour. Without her husband's knowledge, she borrowed one of his cars and with their teenage sons travelled 180 km to visit relatives for 5 days. She drove her sons, Richard and Eugen, 14 and 15 years old, in Benz's newly-constructed “Patent Motorwagen” automobile from Mannheim to Pforzheim She thus became the first person to drive an automobile over more than just a very short distance. This was a distance of more than 106 km (more than fifty miles). Distances traveled before this trip were short and merely trials with mechanical assistants.


||Prof Hubert Anson Newton FRS HFRSE LLD (d. 12 August 1896), usually cited as H. A. Newton, was an American astronomer and mathematician, noted for his research on meteors.
||1896:  Hubert Anson Newton, usually cited as H. A. Newton, was an American astronomer and mathematician, noted for his research on meteors.


||1900 – Wilhelm Steinitz, Austrian chess player and theoretician (b. 1836)
||1900: Wilhelm Steinitz dies ... chess player and theoretician.


||1900: James Edward Keeler dies ... was an American astronomer was an American astronomer who confirmed Maxwell's theory that the rings of Saturn were not solid (requiring uniform rotation), but composed of meteoric particles (with rotational velocity given by Kepler's 3rd law). His spectrogram of 9 Apr 1895 of the rings of Saturn showed the Doppler shift indicating variation of radial velocity along the slit. At the age of 21, he observed the solar eclipse of Jul 1878, with the Naval Observatory expedition to Colorado. He directed the Allegheny Observatory (1891-8) and the Lick Observatory from 1898, where, working with the Crossley reflector, he observed large numbers of nebulae whose existence had never before been suspected. Pic.
||1900: James Edward Keeler dies ... was an American astronomer was an American astronomer who confirmed Maxwell's theory that the rings of Saturn were not solid (requiring uniform rotation), but composed of meteoric particles (with rotational velocity given by Kepler's 3rd law). His spectrogram of 9 Apr 1895 of the rings of Saturn showed the Doppler shift indicating variation of radial velocity along the slit. At the age of 21, he observed the solar eclipse of Jul 1878, with the Naval Observatory expedition to Colorado. He directed the Allegheny Observatory (1891-8) and the Lick Observatory from 1898, where, working with the Crossley reflector, he observed large numbers of nebulae whose existence had never before been suspected. Pic.


||1901 – Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld, Finnish-Swedish botanist, geologist, mineralogist, and explorer (b. 1832)
||1901: Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld dies ... botanist, geologist, mineralogist, and explorer.


||1906 – Tedd Pierce, American animator, producer, and screenwriter (d. 1972)
||1906: Tedd Pierce born ... animator, producer, and screenwriter.


||John Philip Holland (d. 12 August 1914[2]) was an Irish engineer who developed the first submarine to be formally commissioned by the US Navy, and the first Royal Navy submarine, ''Holland 1''. Pic.
||1914: John Philip Holland dies ... engineer who developed the first submarine to be formally commissioned by the US Navy, and the first Royal Navy submarine, ''Holland 1''. Pic.


||1919 – Margaret Burbidge, English-American astrophysicist and academic
||1919: Margaret Burbidge astrophysicist and academic born. (Alive March 2019.)


||1919 – Vikram Sarabhai, Indian physicist and academic (d. 1971)
||1919: Vikram Sarabhai born ... physicist and academic.


||Karl Hermann Struve (d. August 12, 1920) was a Russian astronomer. In Russian, his name is sometimes given as German Ottovich Struve (Герман Оттович Струве) or German Ottonovich Struve (Герман Оттонович Струве). Herman Struve was a part of the famous group of astronomers from the Struve family, which also included his grandfather Friedrich Georg Wilhelm von Struve, father Otto Wilhelm von Struve, brother Ludwig Struve and nephew Otto Struve. Unlike other astronomers of the Struve family, Herman spent most of his career in Germany. Continuing the family tradition, Struve's research was focused on determining the positions of stellar objects. He was particularly known for his work on satellites of planets of the Solar System and development of the intersatellite method of correcting their orbital position. The mathematical Struve function is named after him. Pic.
||1920: Karl Hermann Struve dies ... astronomer. In Russian, his name is sometimes given as German Ottovich Struve (Герман Оттович Струве) or German Ottonovich Struve (Герман Оттонович Струве). Herman Struve was a part of the famous group of astronomers from the Struve family, which also included his grandfather Friedrich Georg Wilhelm von Struve, father Otto Wilhelm von Struve, brother Ludwig Struve and nephew Otto Struve. Unlike other astronomers of the Struve family, Herman spent most of his career in Germany. Continuing the family tradition, Struve's research was focused on determining the positions of stellar objects. He was particularly known for his work on satellites of planets of the Solar System and development of the intersatellite method of correcting their orbital position. The mathematical Struve function is named after him. Pic.


||Boris Isaac Korenblum (b. 12 August 1923, Odessa) was a Soviet-Israeli-American mathematician, specializing in mathematical analysis. Pic.
||1923: Boris Isaac Korenblum born ... mathematician, specializing in mathematical analysis. Pic.


||August Otto Föppl (d. 12 August 1924) was a professor of Technical Mechanics and Graphical Statics at the Technical University of Munich, Germany. He is credited with introducing the Föppl–Klammer theory and the Föppl–von Kármán equations (large deflection of elastic plates).
||1924: August Otto Föppl dies ... professor of Technical Mechanics and Graphical Statics at the Technical University of Munich, Germany. He is credited with introducing the Föppl–Klammer theory and the Föppl–von Kármán equations (large deflection of elastic plates).


||1925:– George Wetherill born ... physicist and academic.
||1925: George Wetherill born ... physicist and academic.


||1927: Carl P. Pulfrich dies ...  physicist, noted for advancements in optics made as a researcher for the Carl Zeiss company in Jena around 1880, and for documenting the Pulfrich effect, a psycho-optical phenomenon that can be used to create a type of 3-D visual effect. Pic.
||1927: Carl P. Pulfrich dies ...  physicist, noted for advancements in optics made as a researcher for the Carl Zeiss company in Jena around 1880, and for documenting the Pulfrich effect, a psycho-optical phenomenon that can be used to create a type of 3-D visual effect. Pic.

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