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||1441: Roger Bolingbroke, English cleric, astronomer, astrologer, magister and alleged necromancer. No pic.
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||1441: Roger Bolingbroke, English cleric, astronomer, astrologer, magister and alleged necromancer. No DOB. Pic search unlikely: https://www.google.com/search?q=roger+bolingbroke


||1571: Hippolytus Guarinonius born ... physician and polymath. Pic.
||1571: Hippolytus Guarinonius born ... physician and polymath. Pic.


||1647 – Pierre Bayle, French philosopher and author (d. 1706). Pic.
||1647: Pierre Bayle born ... philosopher and writer best known for his seminal work the Historical and Critical Dictionary, publication beginning in 1697. Bayle was a French Calvinist. As a forerunner of the Encyclopedists and an advocate of the principle of toleration, his works subsequently influenced the development of the Enlightenment. Pic.


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). Pic.
||1727: Philibert Commerson born ... physician and explorer. Pic.
 
||1787: Louis Daguerre born ... physicist and photographer, developed the daguerreotype. Pic.


||1787 – Louis Daguerre, French physicist and photographer, developed the daguerreotype (d. 1851). Pic.
||1821: Johann Jacob Schweppe dies ... watchmaker and amateur scientist who developed the first practical process to manufacture bottled carbonated mineral water, based on a process discovered by Joseph Priestley in 1767. Pic.


||1830 – Adam Weishaupt, German philosopher and academic, founded the Illuminati (b. 1748). Pic.
||1830: Adam Weishaupt dies ... philosopher and academic, founded the Illuminati. Pic.


File:Johannes Bosscha.jpg|link=Johannes Bosscha (nonfiction)|1831: Physicist [[Johannes Bosscha (nonfiction)|Johannes Bosscha Jr.]] born. He will make important investigations on galvanic polarization and the rapidity of sound waves; he will be one of the first (1855) to suggest the possibility of sending two messages simultaneously over the same wire.
File:Johannes Bosscha.jpg|link=Johannes Bosscha (nonfiction)|1831: Physicist [[Johannes Bosscha (nonfiction)|Johannes Bosscha Jr.]] born. He will make important investigations on galvanic polarization and the rapidity of sound waves; he will be one of the first (1855) to suggest the possibility of sending two messages simultaneously over the same wire.
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||1832: Baron Nils Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld ... Finnish baron, geologist, mineralogist and Arctic explorer. He was a member of the prominent Finland-Swedish Nordenskiöld family of scientists. Pic.
||1832: Baron Nils Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld ... Finnish baron, geologist, mineralogist and Arctic explorer. He was a member of the prominent Finland-Swedish Nordenskiöld family of scientists. Pic.


||1839 – August Kundt, German physicist and educator (d. 1894). Pic.
||1833: Hugh Ronalds dies ... nurseryman who cultivated and documented 300 varieties of apples. Pic search tombstone.
 
||1839: August Kundt born ... physicist and educator. Pic.


||Friedrich Heinrich Albert Wangerin (b. November 18, 1844) was a German mathematician. Pic.
||1844: Friedrich Heinrich Albert Wangerin born ... mathematician. Pic.


||1865 – Mark Twain's short story "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County" is published in the New York Saturday Press.
File:Mark Twain by Abdullah Frères, 1867.jpg|link=Mark Twain (nonfiction)|1865: [[Mark Twain (nonfiction)|Mark Twain]]'s short story "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County" is published in ''The Saturday Press''.


File:Georg Hermann Quincke.jpg|link=|1866: Physicist and crime-fighter [[Georg Hermann Quincke (nonfiction)|Georg Hermann Quincke]] uses the influence of electric forces upon the constants of different forms of matter to detect and prevent [[crimes against chemistry]].
||1887: Gustav Theodor Fechner dies ... philosopher, physicist and experimental psychologist. An early pioneer in experimental psychology and founder of psychophysics, he inspired many 20th century scientists and philosophers. He is also credited with demonstrating the non-linear relationship between psychological sensation and the physical intensity of a stimulus via the formula: {\displaystyle S=K\ln I} {\displaystyle S=K\ln I}, which became known as the Weber–Fechner law. Pic.


||Gustav Theodor Fechner (d. 18 November 1887), was a German philosopher, physicist and experimental psychologist. An early pioneer in experimental psychology and founder of psychophysics, he inspired many 20th century scientists and philosophers. He is also credited with demonstrating the non-linear relationship between psychological sensation and the physical intensity of a stimulus via the formula: {\displaystyle S=K\ln I} {\displaystyle S=K\ln I}, which became known as the Weber–Fechner law. Pic.
||1889: Attilio Palatini dies ... mathematician born in Treviso. He worked in absolute differential calculus and in general relativity. Within this latter subject he gave a sound generalization of the variational principle. Pic.


||Attilio Palatini (b. 18 November 1889) was an Italian mathematician born in Treviso. He worked in absolute differential calculus and in general relativity. Within this latter subject he gave a sound generalization of the variational principle. Pic.
||1897: Patrick Blackett born ... physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate ... known for his work on cloud chambers, cosmic rays, and paleomagnetism, winning the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1948.[5] In 1925 he became the first person to prove that radioactivity could cause the nuclear transmutation of one chemical element to another. Pic.


||1897 – Patrick Blackett, Baron Blackett, English physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1974)
||1900: George Bogdanovich Kistiakowsky born ... physical chemistry professor at Harvard who participated in the Manhattan Project and later served as President Dwight D. Eisenhower's Science Advisor. Pic.


||George Bogdanovich Kistiakowsky (b. November 18, 1900) was a Ukrainian-American physical chemistry professor at Harvard who participated in the Manhattan Project and later served as President Dwight D. Eisenhower's Science Advisor. Pic.
||1901: George Gallup born ... statistician and academic. Pic.


||1901 – George Gallup, American statistician and academic (d. 1984)
||1906: George Wald born ... neurobiologist and academic ... studied pigments in the retina. Share the 1967 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Haldan Keffer Hartline and Ragnar Granit. Pic.


||1906 – George Wald, American neurobiologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1997)
||1913: Mathematician and politician Alessandro Faedo born ... known for his work in numerical analysis, leading to the Faedo–Galerkin method: he was one of the pupils of Leonida Tonelli and, after his death, he succeeded him on the chair of mathematical analysis at the University of Pisa, becoming dean of the faculty of sciences and then rector and exerting a strong positive influence on the development of the university. Pic.


||Alessandro Faedo (B. 18 November 1913) (also known as Alessandro Carlo Faedo or Sandro Faedo) was an Italian mathematician and politician, born in Chiampo. He is known for his work in numerical analysis, leading to the Faedo–Galerkin method: he was one of the pupils of Leonida Tonelli and, after his death, he succeeded him on the chair of mathematical analysis at the University of Pisa, becoming dean of the faculty of sciences and then rector and exerting a strong positive influence on the development of the university.
||1919: Mathematician [[Adolf Hurwitz (nonfiction)|Adolf Hurwitz]] died. He worked on algebra, analysis, geometry and number theory. Pic.


||1919: Mathematician [[Adolf Hurwitz (nonfiction)|Adolf Hurwitz]] died. He worked on algebra, analysis, geometry and number theory.
||1922: Lawrence Christian Biedenharn, Jr. born ... theoretical nuclear physicist and mathematical physicist, a leading expert on applications of Lie group theory to physics. Biedenharn studied at MIT with an interruption in World War II from 1942 to 1946 as a lieutenant in the Signal Corps in the Pacific theater, where in 1946 he was stationed in Tokyo for a year as a radio officer. He received his bachelor's degree in absentia from MIT. Pic search.


||Lucien Marie Le Cam (b. November 18, 1924) was a mathematician and statistician. Pic.  
||1924: Lucien Marie Le Cam born ... mathematician and statistician. Pic.  


||Dennis William Siahou Sciama, FRS (b. 18 November 1926) was a British physicist who, through his own work and that of his students, played a major role in developing British physics after the Second World War. He is considered one of the fathers of modern cosmology.
||1926: Dennis William Siahou Sciama born ... physicist who, through his own work and that of his students, played a major role in developing British physics after the Second World War. He is considered one of the fathers of modern cosmology. Pic.


||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.
||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.


||1932: Frederick Jelinek born ... researcher in information theory, automatic speech recognition, and natural language processing. He is well known for his oft-quoted statement, "Every time I fire a linguist, the performance of the speech recognizer goes up". Pic: https://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/24/business/24jelinek.html
||1932: Frederick Jelinek born ... researcher in information theory, automatic speech recognition, and natural language processing. He is well known for his oft-quoted statement, "Every time I fire a linguist, the performance of the speech recognizer goes up". Pic search.


||1938: Trade union members elect John L. Lewis as the first president of the Congress of Industrial Organizations.
||1941: Walther Nernst dies ... chemist and physicist, Nobel Prize laureate. His formulation of the Nernst heat theorem helped pave the way for the third law of thermodynamics, for which he won the 1920 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. Pic.


||1941: Walther Nernst dies ... chemist and physicist, Nobel Prize laureate.
||1945: Jacob Tamarkin dies ... mathematician best known for his work in mathematical analysis. Pic search yes: https://www.google.com/search?q=Jacob+David+Tamarkin


||1945: Jacob David Tamarkin dies ... mathematician best known for his work in mathematical analysis.
||1956: Jim Weirich born ... computer scientist, developed Rake Software. Pic search: https://www.google.com/search?q=jim+weirich
 
||1956: Jim Weirich born ... computer scientist, developed Rake Software.


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.
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||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.
||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.


||2004: Robert Bacher dies ... physicist and academic.
||1993: Joseph E. Gillis dies ... mathematician and academic. He contributed to fractal sets, fluid dynamics, random walks, and pioneered the combinatorial theory of special functions of mathematical physics. Pic: https://www.google.com/search?q=joseph+gillis+mathematician
 
||1994: Nathan Jacob Fine ies ... mathematician who worked on basic hypergeometric series. He solved the Jeep problem in 1946. Pic: http://www.ams.org/notices/199506/fine.pdf
 
||2004: Robert Bacher dies ... physicist and academic ... one of the leaders of the Manhattan Project. Pic.


||2007: Sidney Richard Coleman dies ... theoretical physicist who studied under Murray Gell-Mann. He is noted for his research in high-energy theoretical physics. Pic.
||2007: Sidney Richard Coleman dies ... theoretical physicist who studied under Murray Gell-Mann. He is noted for his research in high-energy theoretical physics. Pic.
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||2016: Jay Wright Forrester dies ... pioneering American computer engineer and systems scientist. He was a professor at the MIT Sloan School of Management. Forrester is known as the founder of system dynamics, which deals with the simulation of interactions between objects in dynamic systems. Pic.
||2016: Jay Wright Forrester dies ... pioneering American computer engineer and systems scientist. He was a professor at the MIT Sloan School of Management. Forrester is known as the founder of system dynamics, which deals with the simulation of interactions between objects in dynamic systems. Pic.
||2016: Surgeon Denton Arthur Cooley dies.  Cooley performed the first implantation of a total artificial heart. Pic.


File:Dennis_Paulson_of_Mars.jpg|link=Dennis Paulson of Mars|2017: [[Dennis Paulson of Mars|Dennis Paulson]] celebrates fourth anniversary of NASA launching the [[MAVEN (nonfiction)|MAVEN probe]] to [[Mars (nonfiction)|Mars]].
File:Dennis_Paulson_of_Mars.jpg|link=Dennis Paulson of Mars|2017: [[Dennis Paulson of Mars|Dennis Paulson]] celebrates fourth anniversary of NASA launching the [[MAVEN (nonfiction)|MAVEN probe]] to [[Mars (nonfiction)|Mars]].


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  • 1724: Inventor and priest Bartolomeu de Gusmão dies.

    1724: Inventor and priest Bartolomeu de Gusmão dies.

  • 1831: Physicist Johannes Bosscha Jr. born. He will make important investigations on galvanic polarization and the rapidity of sound waves; he will be one of the first (1855) to suggest the possibility of sending two messages simultaneously over the same wire.

    1831: Physicist Johannes Bosscha Jr. born. He will make important investigations on galvanic polarization and the rapidity of sound waves; he will be one of the first (1855) to suggest the possibility of sending two messages simultaneously over the same wire.

  • 1865: Mark Twain's short story "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County" is published in The Saturday Press.

    1865: Mark Twain's short story "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County" is published in The Saturday Press.

  • 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.

  • 2013: NASA launches the MAVEN probe to Mars.

    2013: NASA launches the MAVEN probe to Mars.

  • 2017: Dennis Paulson celebrates fourth anniversary of NASA launching the MAVEN probe to Mars.

    2017: Dennis Paulson celebrates fourth anniversary of NASA launching the MAVEN probe to Mars.

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