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||1522: Lodovico Ferrari born ... mathematician and academic.
||1522: Lodovico Ferrari born ... mathematician and academic. Pic search scanty.


||1551: Nicolaus Reimers born ... astronomer.
||1537: Johann Carion dies ... astrologer and chronicler. Pic.


||1695: William Borlase born ... geologist and archaeologist.
||1551: Nicolaus Reimers born ... astronomer. Pic: book cover, diagram.


||1704: Guillaume de l'Hôpital dies ... mathematician and academic.
||1695: William Borlase born ... geologist and archaeologist. Pic.


||1709: Alexander Selkirk is rescued after being shipwrecked on a desert island, inspiring Daniel Defoe's adventure book Robinson Crusoe.
||1704: Guillaume de l'Hôpital dies ... mathematician and academic. No DOB. Pic.


||1712: Martin Lister dies ... physician and geologist.
||1709: Alexander Selkirk is rescued after being shipwrecked on a desert island, inspiring Daniel Defoe's adventure book Robinson Crusoe. Pic: statue, illustration.


||1723: Antonio Maria Valsalva dies ... anatomist and physician.
||1712: Martin Lister dies ... physician and geologist. Pic.


||1768: Robert Smith dies ... mathematician and theorist.
||1723: Antonio Maria Valsalva dies ... anatomist and physician. Pic.
 
||1768: Robert Smith dies ... mathematician and theorist. No DOB. Pic.


File:Charles Camus - Cours de mathématique.jpg|link=Charles Étienne Louis Camus (nonfiction)|1768: Mathematician and mechanician [[Charles Étienne Louis Camus (nonfiction)|Charles Étienne Louis Camus]] dies. He was the author of ''Cours de mathématiques'' (Paris, 1766), along with a number of essays on mathematical and mechanical subjects.
File:Charles Camus - Cours de mathématique.jpg|link=Charles Étienne Louis Camus (nonfiction)|1768: Mathematician and mechanician [[Charles Étienne Louis Camus (nonfiction)|Charles Étienne Louis Camus]] dies. He was the author of ''Cours de mathématiques'' (Paris, 1766), along with a number of essays on mathematical and mechanical subjects.
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||1793: William Hopkins born ... mathematician and geologist. He made important contributions in asserting a solid, rather than fluid, interior for the Earth and explaining many geological phenomena in terms of his model. However, though his conclusions proved to be correct, his mathematical and physical reasoning were subsequently seen as unsound. Pic.
||1793: William Hopkins born ... mathematician and geologist. He made important contributions in asserting a solid, rather than fluid, interior for the Earth and explaining many geological phenomena in terms of his model. However, though his conclusions proved to be correct, his mathematical and physical reasoning were subsequently seen as unsound. Pic.


||1802: Jean-Baptiste Boussingault born ... chemist and academic.
||1799: José Antonio Alzate y Ramírez dies ... priest, scientist, historian, cartographer, and journalist. Pic.
 
||1802: Jean-Baptiste Boussingault born ... chemist and academic ... made significant contributions to agricultural science, petroleum science and metallurgy. Pic.


File:William Stanley.jpg|link=William Stanley (nonfiction)|1829: Inventor, engineer, and philanthropist [[William Stanley (nonfiction)|William Stanley]] born. He will design and manufacture precision drawing and mathematical instruments, as well as surveying instruments and telescopes.
File:William Stanley.jpg|link=William Stanley (nonfiction)|1829: Inventor, engineer, and philanthropist [[William Stanley (nonfiction)|William Stanley]] born. He will design and manufacture precision drawing and mathematical instruments, as well as surveying instruments and telescopes.


||1842: Julian Sochocki born ... mathematician and academic.
||1842: Julian Sochocki born ... mathematician and academic. Pic search.


||1849: Leopold Bernhard Gegenbauer born ... mathematician remembered best as an algebraist. Gegenbauer polynomials are named after him. Pic.
||1849: Leopold Bernhard Gegenbauer born ... mathematician remembered best as an algebraist. Gegenbauer polynomials are named after him. Pic.


||1881: Gustav Herglotz born ... mathematician. He is best known for his works on the theory of relativity and seismology.
||1881: Gustav Herglotz born ... mathematician. He is best known for his works on the theory of relativity and seismology. Pic.


File:Joseph Wedderburn.jpg|link=Joseph Wedderburn (nonfiction)|1882: Mathematician [[Joseph Wedderburn (nonfiction)|Joseph Wedderburn]] born. He will make significant contributions to algebra, proving that a finite division algebra is a field, and proving part of the Artin–Wedderburn theorem on simple algebras. Returning to Scotland in 1905, Wedderburn worked for four years at the University of Edinburgh as an assistant to George Chrystal, who supervised his D.Sc, awarded in 1908 for a thesis titled On Hypercomplex Numbers. A significant algebraist, he proved that a finite division algebra is a field, and part of the Artin–Wedderburn theorem on simple algebras.
File:Joseph Wedderburn.jpg|link=Joseph Wedderburn (nonfiction)|1882: Mathematician [[Joseph Wedderburn (nonfiction)|Joseph Wedderburn]] born. He will make significant contributions to algebra, proving that a finite division algebra is a field, and proving part of the Artin–Wedderburn theorem on simple algebras.  


||1893: Cornelius Lanczos born ... mathematician and physicist.
||1892: Cuno Hoffmeister born ... astronomer, observer and discoverer of variable stars, comets and minor planets, and founder of Sonneberg Observatory. Pic.


||1894: Hendrik Anthony "Hans" Kramers born ... physicist who worked with Niels Bohr to understand how electromagnetic waves interact with matter.
||1893: Cornelius Lanczos born ... mathematician and physicist. Pic.


||1896: Kazimierz Kuratowski born ... mathematician and logician.
||1894: Hans Kramers born ... physicist who worked with Niels Bohr to understand how electromagnetic waves interact with matter. Pic.


||1897: Gertrude Blanch born ... mathematician.
||1896: Kazimierz Kuratowski born ... mathematician and logician. Pic.


File:Fightin' Bert Russell.jpg|link=Bertrand Russell|1900: [[Bertrand Russell|"Fightin'" Bert Russell]] agrees to fight three rounds of bare-knuckled boxing at World Peace Conference.
File:Gertrude Blanch.jpg|link=Gertrude Blanch (nonfiction)|1897: Mathematician [[Gertrude Blanch (nonfiction)|Gertrude Blanch]] born. Blanch will be a pioneer of numerical analysis and computation, leading the Mathematical Tables Project in New York from its beginning, the Numerical Analysis at UCLA computing division, and mathematical research at the Aerospace Research Laboratory at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Dayton, Ohio.


||1903: Bartel Leendert van der Waerden born ... mathematician and historian of mathematics.
File:Fightin' Bert Russell.jpg|link=Bertrand Russell|1900: [[Bertrand Russell|"Fightin'" Bert Russell]] agrees to organize and chair an informal "Queensberry Rules" boxing subcommittee at the World Peace Conference "if so doing will further the best interests of humanity."


File:Ayn Rand signature 1949.svg|link=Ayn Rand (nonfiction)|1905: Writer and philosopher [[Ayn Rand (nonfiction)|Ayn Rand]] born.
||1903: Bartel Leendert van der Waerden born ... mathematician and historian of mathematics. Pic.


||1907: Dmitri Mendeleev dies ... chemist and academic.
File:Ayn Rand by Talbot 1943.jpg|link=Ayn Rand (nonfiction)|1905: Writer and philosopher [[Ayn Rand (nonfiction)|Ayn Rand]] born.


File:Agner Krarup Erlang.jpg|link=Agner Krarup Erlang (nonfiction)|1908: Mathematician, engineer, and crime-fighter [[Agner Krarup Erlang (nonfiction)|Agner Krarup Erlang]] publishes new class of [[Gnomon algorithm functions]] which use telephone network analysis to detect and prevent [[crimes against mathematical constants]].
||1907: Dmitri Mendeleev dies ... chemist and academic. Pic.


||1913: Gustaf de Laval dies ... engineer.
||1913: Gustaf de Laval dies ... engineer ... made important contributions to the design of steam turbines and dairy machinery. Pic.


||1917: Herman Feshbach born ... physicist. He was an Institute Professor Emeritus of physics at MIT. Feshbach is best known for Feshbach resonance and for writing, with Philip M. Morse, Methods of Theoretical Physics.
||1917: Herman Feshbach born ... physicist. He was an Institute Professor Emeritus of physics at MIT. Feshbach is best known for Feshbach resonance and for writing, with Philip M. Morse, Methods of Theoretical Physics. Pic search.


||1922: Gerrit Lekkerkerker born ... mathematician. Pic.
||1922: Gerrit Lekkerkerker born ... mathematician. Pic.


||1922: Ulysses by James Joyce is published.
||1922: Ulysses by James Joyce is published. Pic.


||1925: Serum run to Nome: Dog sleds reach Nome, Alaska with diphtheria serum, inspiring the Iditarod race.
||1925: Serum run to Nome: Dog sleds reach Nome, Alaska with diphtheria serum, inspiring the Iditarod race. Pic: map.


||1928: Felix Arnold Edward Pirani born ... theoretical physicist specializing in gravitational physics and general relativity. Pirani and Herman Bondi wrote a series of articles (1959 to 1989) that established the existence of plane wave solutions for gravitational waves based on general relativity.
||1928: Felix Arnold Edward Pirani born ... theoretical physicist specializing in gravitational physics and general relativity. Pirani and Herman Bondi wrote a series of articles (1959 to 1989) that established the existence of plane wave solutions for gravitational waves based on general relativity. Pic: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/12150493/Felix-Pirani-mathematician-obituary.html


||1929: John Henry Holland born ... scientist and Professor of psychology and Professor of electrical engineering and computer science at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. He was a pioneer in what became known as genetic algorithms. Pic.
||1929: John Henry Holland born ... scientist and Professor of psychology and Professor of electrical engineering and computer science at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. He was a pioneer in what became known as genetic algorithms. Pic.
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||1935: Jean-Louis Verdier born ... mathematician who worked, under the guidance of Alexander Grothendieck, on derived categories and Verdier duality. Pic.
||1935: Jean-Louis Verdier born ... mathematician who worked, under the guidance of Alexander Grothendieck, on derived categories and Verdier duality. Pic.


||1935: Leonarde Keeler administers polygraph tests to two murder suspects, the first time polygraph evidence was admitted in U.S. courts.
||1935: Leonarde Keeler administers polygraph tests to two murder suspects, the first time polygraph evidence was admitted in U.S. courts. Pic.
 
||1943: X-10 Graphite Reactor: The reactor "went critical"  ... and produced its first plutonium in early 1944. It supplied the Los Alamos Laboratory with its first significant amounts of plutonium, and its first reactor-bred product. Studies of these samples heavily influenced bomb design. Pic.
 
||1943: A Short Stirling Pathfinder was downed near Rotterdam. German forces examining the wreckage found an apparatus which they called the "Rotterdam Gerät" (Rotterdam Device). They quickly determined it to be a centimeter wavelength generator, although its exact purpose was unclear. This was revealed when a second example was captured, and the crew of the aircraft revealed it to be a mapping system. Wolfgang Martini immediately set up a team to understand the new system and devise countermeasures. This work led to the FuG 350 Naxos device, a radio receiver using a DF loop for an aircraft installation, covered with a teardrop-shaped fairing and tuned to the H2S frequencies, that was used to track the Pathfinders in flight. Pic: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FuG_240_Berlin


||1943: X-10 Graphite Reactor: The reactor "went critical"  ... and produced its first plutonium in early 1944. It supplied the Los Alamos Laboratory with its first significant amounts of plutonium, and its first reactor-bred product. Studies of these samples heavily influenced bomb design.  
||1945:Mühlviertler Hasenjagd (lit. 'Mühlviertel rabbit hunt') was a war crime in which 500 Soviet officers, who had revolted and escaped from the Mühlviertel subcamp of Mauthausen-Gusen concentration camp on 2 February 1945, were hunted down. Local civilians, soldiers and local Nazi organizations hunted down the escapees for three weeks, executing most of them.


File:Constantin Carathéodory.jpg|link=Constantin Carathéodory (nonfiction)|1950: Mathematician and author [[Constantin Carathéodory (nonfiction)|Constantin Carathéodory]] dies. He pioneered the axiomatic formulation of thermodynamics along a purely geometrical approach.
File:Constantin Carathéodory.jpg|link=Constantin Carathéodory (nonfiction)|1950: Mathematician and author [[Constantin Carathéodory (nonfiction)|Constantin Carathéodory]] dies. He pioneered the axiomatic formulation of thermodynamics along a purely geometrical approach.


||1957: Grigory Landsberg dies ... physicist and academic.
||1957: Grigory Landsberg dies ... physicist and academic. Pic.


||1962: Shlomo Hestrindies dies ... biochemist and academic.
||1959: Karl Hessenberg dies ... mathematician and engineer. The Hessenberg matrix form is named after him. The Hessenberg matrix form is named after him. Pic search good.
 
||1965: Mathematician and academic George Neville Watson dies. He applied complex analysis to the theory of special functions.  In 1918 he proved a significant result known as Watson's lemma, that has many applications in the theory on the asymptotic behaviour of exponential integrals. Pic search


File:The Eel Escapes Hydrolab.jpg|link=The Eel Escapes Hydrolab|1969: New evidence suggests that ''[[The Eel Escapes Hydrolab]]'' is based on actual events.
File:The Eel Escapes Hydrolab.jpg|link=The Eel Escapes Hydrolab|1969: New evidence suggests that ''[[The Eel Escapes Hydrolab]]'' is based on actual events.


File:Bertrand Russell transparent bg.png|link=Bertrand Russell (nonfiction)|1970: Philosopher, logician, mathematician, historian, writer, social critic and political activist [[Bertrand Russell (nonfiction)|Bertrand Russell]] dies.
File:Bertrand Russell transparent bg.png|link=Bertrand Russell (nonfiction)|1970: Philosopher, logician, mathematician, historian, writer, social critic, and political activist [[Bertrand Russell (nonfiction)|Bertrand Russell]] dies.


File:Imre Lakatos.jpg|link=Imre Lakatos (nonfiction)|1974: Mathematician, philosopher, and academic [[Imre Lakatos (nonfiction)|Imre Lakatos]] dies. He is known for his thesis of the fallibility of mathematics and its 'methodology of proofs and refutations' in its pre-axiomatic stages of development.
File:Imre Lakatos.jpg|link=Imre Lakatos (nonfiction)|1974: Mathematician, philosopher, and academic [[Imre Lakatos (nonfiction)|Imre Lakatos]] dies. He is known for his thesis of the fallibility of mathematics and its 'methodology of proofs and refutations' in its pre-axiomatic stages of development.


||1980: William Howard Stein dies ... biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate.
||1980: William Howard Stein dies ... biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate ... with Christian Boehmer Anfinsen and Stanford Moore, for their work on ribonuclease and for their contribution to the understanding of the connection between chemical structure and catalytic activity of the ribonuclease molecule. Pic.


||1996: Otis Ray McIntire born ... engineer. After graduating from the University of Kansas with a BSc degree in engineering in 1940, he went to work as a research engineer for The Dow Chemical Company. During World War II, when rubber was in short supply, McIntire's work focused on developing a rubber-like substance that could be used as a flexible insulator. In an experiment, in which he combined styrene with isobutylene, he created a unique material that was solid yet flexible due to the tiny bubbles formed by isobutylene within the styrene. McIntire had invented foam polystyrene, more commonly known by its brand name, Styrofoam Pic: https://www.geni.com/people/Otis-Mac-McIntire/335726453760006055
||1996: Otis Ray McIntire born ... engineer. After graduating from the University of Kansas with a BSc degree in engineering in 1940, he went to work as a research engineer for The Dow Chemical Company. During World War II, when rubber was in short supply, McIntire's work focused on developing a rubber-like substance that could be used as a flexible insulator. In an experiment, in which he combined styrene with isobutylene, he created a unique material that was solid yet flexible due to the tiny bubbles formed by isobutylene within the styrene. McIntire had invented foam polystyrene, more commonly known by its brand name, Styrofoam Pic: https://www.geni.com/people/Otis-Mac-McIntire/335726453760006055


||1998: Gertrude Scharff Goldhaber dies ... nuclear physicist. Goldhaber studied neutron-proton and neutron-nucleus reaction cross sections in 1941, and gamma radiation emission and absorption by nuclei in 1942. Around this time she also observed that spontaneous nuclear fission is accompanied by the release of neutrons — a result that had been theorized earlier but had yet to be shown. Pic.
||1998: Gertrude Scharff Goldhaber dies ... nuclear physicist. Goldhaber studied neutron-proton and neutron-nucleus reaction cross sections in 1941, and gamma radiation emission and absorption by nuclei in 1942. Around this time she also observed that spontaneous nuclear fission is accompanied by the release of neutrons — a result that had been theorized earlier but had yet to be shown. Pic.
||1998: Haroun Tazieff dies ... volcanologist and geologist. He was a famous cinematographer of volcanic eruptions and lava flows, and the author of several books on volcanoes. Pic.


||2008: Joshua Lederberg dies ... molecular biologist known for his work in microbial genetics, artificial intelligence, and the United States space program. He was 33 years old when he won the 1958 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for discovering that bacteria can mate and exchange genes (bacterial conjugation). Pic.
||2008: Joshua Lederberg dies ... molecular biologist known for his work in microbial genetics, artificial intelligence, and the United States space program. He was 33 years old when he won the 1958 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for discovering that bacteria can mate and exchange genes (bacterial conjugation). Pic.

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  • 1768: Mathematician and mechanician Charles Étienne Louis Camus dies. He was the author of Cours de mathématiques (Paris, 1766), along with a number of essays on mathematical and mechanical subjects.

    1768: Mathematician and mechanician Charles Étienne Louis Camus dies. He was the author of Cours de mathématiques (Paris, 1766), along with a number of essays on mathematical and mechanical subjects.

  • 1786: Mathematician, physicist, and astronomer Jacques Philippe Marie Binet born. He will make significant contributions to number theory, and the mathematical foundations of matrix algebra.

    1786: Mathematician, physicist, and astronomer Jacques Philippe Marie Binet born. He will make significant contributions to number theory, and the mathematical foundations of matrix algebra.

  • 1829: Inventor, engineer, and philanthropist William Stanley born. He will design and manufacture precision drawing and mathematical instruments, as well as surveying instruments and telescopes.

    1829: Inventor, engineer, and philanthropist William Stanley born. He will design and manufacture precision drawing and mathematical instruments, as well as surveying instruments and telescopes.

  • 1882: Mathematician Joseph Wedderburn born. He will make significant contributions to algebra, proving that a finite division algebra is a field, and proving part of the Artin–Wedderburn theorem on simple algebras.

    1882: Mathematician Joseph Wedderburn born. He will make significant contributions to algebra, proving that a finite division algebra is a field, and proving part of the Artin–Wedderburn theorem on simple algebras.

  • 1897: Mathematician Gertrude Blanch born. Blanch will be a pioneer of numerical analysis and computation, leading the Mathematical Tables Project in New York from its beginning, the Numerical Analysis at UCLA computing division, and mathematical research at the Aerospace Research Laboratory at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Dayton, Ohio.

    1897: Mathematician Gertrude Blanch born. Blanch will be a pioneer of numerical analysis and computation, leading the Mathematical Tables Project in New York from its beginning, the Numerical Analysis at UCLA computing division, and mathematical research at the Aerospace Research Laboratory at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Dayton, Ohio.

  • 1900: "Fightin'" Bert Russell agrees to organize and chair an informal "Queensberry Rules" boxing subcommittee at the World Peace Conference "if so doing will further the best interests of humanity."

    1900: "Fightin'" Bert Russell agrees to organize and chair an informal "Queensberry Rules" boxing subcommittee at the World Peace Conference "if so doing will further the best interests of humanity."

  • 1905: Writer and philosopher Ayn Rand born.

    1905: Writer and philosopher Ayn Rand born.

  • 1950: Mathematician and author Constantin Carathéodory dies. He pioneered the axiomatic formulation of thermodynamics along a purely geometrical approach.

    1950: Mathematician and author Constantin Carathéodory dies. He pioneered the axiomatic formulation of thermodynamics along a purely geometrical approach.

  • 1969: New evidence suggests that The Eel Escapes Hydrolab is based on actual events.

    1969: New evidence suggests that The Eel Escapes Hydrolab is based on actual events.

  • 1970: Philosopher, logician, mathematician, historian, writer, social critic, and political activist Bertrand Russell dies.

    1970: Philosopher, logician, mathematician, historian, writer, social critic, and political activist Bertrand Russell dies.

  • 1974: Mathematician, philosopher, and academic Imre Lakatos dies. He is known for his thesis of the fallibility of mathematics and its 'methodology of proofs and refutations' in its pre-axiomatic stages of development.

    1974: Mathematician, philosopher, and academic Imre Lakatos dies. He is known for his thesis of the fallibility of mathematics and its 'methodology of proofs and refutations' in its pre-axiomatic stages of development.

  • 2017: Mathematician Bertram Kostant dies. He was one of the principal developers of the theory of geometric quantization.

    2017: Mathematician Bertram Kostant dies. He was one of the principal developers of the theory of geometric quantization.

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