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||1621: Ralph Agas dies ... surveyor and cartographer.
||1621: Ralph Agas dies ... surveyor and cartographer. No DOB. Pic: map.


File:Jean-Jacques d'Ortous de Mairan.png|link=Jean-Jacques d'Ortous de Mairan (nonfiction)|1678: Geophysicist, astronomer, and biologist [[Jean-Jacques d'Ortous de Mairan (nonfiction)|Jean-Jacques d'Ortous de Mairan]] born. His observations and experiments will inspire the beginning of what will be known as the study of biological circadian rhythms.
File:Jean-Jacques d'Ortous de Mairan.png|link=Jean-Jacques d'Ortous de Mairan (nonfiction)|1678: Geophysicist, astronomer, and biologist [[Jean-Jacques d'Ortous de Mairan (nonfiction)|Jean-Jacques d'Ortous de Mairan]] born. His observations and experiments will inspire the beginning of what  
 
File:Abraham de Moivre.jpg|link=Abraham de Moivre (nonfiction)|1753: Mathematician and [[APTO]] theorist [[Abraham de Moivre (nonfiction)|Abraham de Moivre]] publishes new edition of his book on probability theory, ''The Doctrine of Chances'', with an addendum on applications of [[Gnomon algorithm functions]] to the psychology of [[crimes against mathematical constants]].


||1810: William George Armstrong born ... industrialist who founded the Armstrong Whitworth manufacturing concern on Tyneside. He was also an eminent scientist, inventor and philanthropist. In collaboration with the architect Richard Norman Shaw, he built Cragside in Northumberland, the first house in the world to be lit by hydroelectricity. He is regarded as the inventor of modern artillery. Pic.
||1810: William George Armstrong born ... industrialist who founded the Armstrong Whitworth manufacturing concern on Tyneside. He was also an eminent scientist, inventor and philanthropist. In collaboration with the architect Richard Norman Shaw, he built Cragside in Northumberland, the first house in the world to be lit by hydroelectricity. He is regarded as the inventor of modern artillery. Pic.


||1817: Charles Adolphe Wurtz born ... chemist. He is best remembered for his decades-long advocacy for the atomic theory and for ideas about the structures of chemical compounds
||1817: Charles Adolphe Wurtz born ... chemist. He is best remembered for his decades-long advocacy for the atomic theory and for ideas about the structures of chemical compounds. Pic.


||1832: Rudolph Koenig born ... physicist and academic.
||1832: Rudolph Koenig born ... physicist and academic.  He was a pioneer of acoustical physics and engineering; his Koenig sound analyzer revolutionized musical and scientific worlds by demonstrated visually that musical notes and voices were in fact made up of simple sounds. Pic.


||1836: John Loudon McAdam dies ... engineer.
||1836: John Loudon McAdam dies ... engineer and inventor of "macadamisation", an effective and economical method of constructing roads. Pic.


||1864: Auguste Charlois born ... astronomer. Pic search yes: https://www.google.com/search?q=Auguste+Charlois
||1864: Auguste Charlois born ... astronomer. Pic search yes: https://www.google.com/search?q=Auguste+Charlois


||1876: Willis Carrier dies ... engineer, invented air conditioning.
||1876: Willis Carrier dies ... engineer, invented air conditioning. Pic.


||1885: Thomas Andrews dies ... chemist and physicist.
||1885: Thomas Andrews dies ... chemist and physicist ... did important work on phase transitions between gases and liquids.  Pic.


||1894: Norbert Wiener born ... mathematician and philosopher. Pic.
||1894: Norbert Wiener born ... mathematician and philosopher. Pic.
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||1898: Karl Ziegler born ... chemist and engineer, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic.
||1898: Karl Ziegler born ... chemist and engineer, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic.


||1901: William Sterling "Deak" Parsons born ... American naval officer who worked as an ordnance expert on the Manhattan Project during World War II. Pic.
File:Rear Admiral Deak Parsons.jpg|link=William Sterling Parsons (nonfiction)|1901: [[William Sterling Parsons (nonfiction)|American naval officer William Sterling "Deak" Parsons]] born. Parsons will serve as an ordnance expert on the Manhattan Project during World War II.


||1918: Francis Harry Hinsley born ... historian and cryptanalyst. He worked at Bletchley Park during the Second World War and wrote widely on the history of international relations and British Intelligence during the Second World War. Pic.
File:Harry Hinsley.jpg|link=Harry Hinsley (nonfiction)|1918: Historian and cryptanalyst [[Harry Hinsley (nonfiction)|Francis Harry Hinsley]] born. Hinsley will work at Bletchley Park during the Second World War, and write widely on the history of international relations and British Intelligence during the war.


||1922: Howard Carter and Lord Carnarvon become the first people to enter the tomb of Pharaoh Tutankhamun in over 3000 years.
||1922: Howard Carter and Lord Carnarvon become the first people to enter the tomb of Pharaoh Tutankhamun in over 3000 years.


||1922: Charles M. Schulz born ... cartoonist, created Peanuts.
||1922: Charles M. Schulz born ... cartoonist, created Peanuts. Pic.


||1926: John Browning dies ... weapons designer, founded the Browning Arms Company.
||1926: John Browning dies ... weapons designer, founded the Browning Arms Company. Pic.


||Yash Pal born ... scientist, educator and educationist. He was known for his contributions to the study of cosmic rays, as well as for being an institution-builder. In his later years, he became one of India's leading science communicators. Pic.
||Yash Pal born ... scientist, educator and educationist. He was known for his contributions to the study of cosmic rays, as well as for being an institution-builder. In his later years, he became one of India's leading science communicators. Pic.
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||1991: Ed Heinemann dies ... military aircraft designer for the Douglas Aircraft Company. Pic.
||1991: Ed Heinemann dies ... military aircraft designer for the Douglas Aircraft Company. Pic.


||1996: Paul Rand dies ... art director and graphic designer.
||1996: Paul Rand dies ... art director and graphic designer. Pic.
 
||1999: John L. Kelley dies ... mathematician at University of California, Berkeley who worked in general topology and functional analysis. Pic.


||1999: John L. Kelley dies ... mathematician at University of California, Berkeley who worked in general topology and functional analysis.
File:Fermentation.jpg|link=Fermentation|Signed first edition of '''''[[Fermentation]]''''' stolen from the Louvre in a daring broad-daylight robbery by criminal mathematical generated by the [[Forbidden Ratio]] gang.


File:Mars_Science_Laboratory.jpg|link=Mars Science Laboratory (nonfiction)|2011: The [[Mars Science Laboratory (nonfiction)|Mars Science Laboratory]] launches to Mars with the ''Curiosity'' Rover.
File:Mars_Science_Laboratory.jpg|link=Mars Science Laboratory (nonfiction)|2011: The [[Mars Science Laboratory (nonfiction)|Mars Science Laboratory]] launches to Mars with the ''Curiosity'' Rover.


||2012: Joseph Murray dies ... surgeon and soldier, Nobel Prize laureate.
||2012: Joseph Murray dies ... surgeon and soldier ... performed the first successful human kidney transplant on identical twins Richard and Ronald Herrick on December 23, 1954. Murray shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1990 with E. Donnall Thomas for their discoveries concerning "organ and cell transplantation in the treatment of human disease."


||2014: Marvin Leonard Goldberger dies ... theoretical physicist. Pic.
||2014: Marvin Leonard Goldberger dies ... theoretical physicist. Pic.

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