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||1527: Niccolò Machiavelli dies ... historian and philosopher. Pic.
||1535: Leonhard Rauwolf born ... physician and botanist. Pic: book cover.
||1639: Increase Mather born ... minister and author. Pic.
File:Inigo Jones.jpg|link=Inigo Jones (nonfiction)|1652: Architect [[Inigo Jones (nonfiction)|Inigo Jones]] dies. He was one of the first architects of the early modern period to employ [[Vitruvius (nonfiction)|Vitruvian]] rules of proportion and symmetry in his buildings.
File:Inigo Jones.jpg|link=Inigo Jones (nonfiction)|1652: Architect [[Inigo Jones (nonfiction)|Inigo Jones]] dies. He was one of the first architects of the early modern period to employ [[Vitruvius (nonfiction)|Vitruvian]] rules of proportion and symmetry in his buildings.
||1706: John Dollond born ... optician, known for his successful optics business and his patenting and commercialization of achromatic doublets. Pic.
||1710: James Short born ... mathematician and manufacturer of optical instruments, principally telescopes. During his 35 year career as a telescope-maker he produced approximately 1,360 scientific instruments. Pic: https://alchetron.com/James-Short-(mathematician)
||1721: Benjamin Wilson born ... painter, printmaker and scientist (natural philosopher). He performed experiments investigating the electrical properties of tourmaline, gaining international recognition, including the Copley medal (1760). He also researched light and color, experimenting with luminescent materials.  Pic.
File:Simeon Poisson.jpg|link=Siméon Denis Poisson (nonfiction)|1781: Mathematician and physicist [[Siméon Denis Poisson (nonfiction)|Siméon Denis Poisson]] born. His memoirs on the theory of electricity and magnetism will constitute a new branch of mathematical physics.
||1801: Charles Thomas Jackson born ... physician, chemist, and pioneer geologist and mineralogist. Jackson's professional career consisted of a series of spectacular claims to the work of others which continued until he finally became insane in 1873. In 1832, during a voyage, he discussed with the portrait painter Samuel Morse the possibilities of electric telegraphy. Morse exhibited his telegraph to Congress in 1837 but had to spend seven years to establish a right to his own invention against Jackson's claim that Morse had stolen it from him. Jackson similarly claimed priority in the idea of use of ether as an anaesthetic, which he had suggested to a dentist, William Morton. Though the effects of ether were somewhat known at the time, it was Morton who made the idea practical. Pic.
||1811: Carlo Matteucci born ... physicist and neurophysiologist.
||1814: Anton Nuhn born ... anatomist and academic.
||1828: Ferdinand André Fouqué born ... geologist and academic.
||1845: Arthur Cowper Ranyard born ... astrophysicist and astronomer.
||1852: Pedagogue Friedrich Wilhelm August Fröbel dies. He laid the foundation for modern education based on the recognition that children have unique needs and capabilities. Fröbel created the concept of the "kindergarten" and coined the word; he also developed the educational toys known as Froebel gifts. Pic.
||1857: Louis Jacques Thénard dies ... chemist. Pic.
||1863: Max Wolf born ... astronomer and academic ... pioneer in the field of astrophotography. He was chairman of astronomy at the University of Heidelberg and director of the Heidelberg-Königstuhl State Observatory from 1902 until his death. Pic.
||1870: Clara Immerwahr born ... chemist and academic. Pic.
||1870: Anthony Michell born ... engineer.
||1872: Onorato Nicoletti born ... mathematician. He published works in various fields of mathematics, including numerical analysis, infinitesmal analysis, the equations related to hermitian matrices, and differential equations.  Pic.
||1874: Anders Jonas Ångström dies ... physicist and astronomer. Pic.
||1876: Willem Hendrik Keesom born ... physicist and academic. Pic.
||1885: Henri Édouard Tresca dies ... mechanical engineer and academic. He is the father of the field of plasticity, or non-recoverable deformations. Pic.
||1887: Norman L. Bowen born ... geologist and petrologist.
||1896: Charles Bowers Momsen born ... He was an American pioneer in submarine rescue for the United States Navy, and he invented the underwater escape device later called the "Momsen lung", for which he received the Navy Distinguished Service Medal in 1929. In May 1939, Momsen directed the rescue of the crew of Squalus (SS-192). Pic.
||1912: Kazimierz Leski born ... pilot and engineer, submarine designer. Pic.
||1915: Wilhelm Gliese born ... soldier and astronomer.
||1916: Herbert Friedman born ... physicist and astronomer.
||1916: Zoltán Pál Dienes born ... mathematician whose ideas on education (especially of small children) have been popular in some countries. He was a world-famous theorist and tireless practitioner of the "new mathematics": an approach to mathematics learning that uses games, songs, and dance to make it more appealing to children.
||1929: Ferdinand Rudio dies ... mathematician and historian of mathematics. Pic.
||1940: Wolfgang Doeblin dies ... mathematician. Pic. Bio film: https://www.amazon.com/Wolfgang-Doeblin-mathematician-rediscovered-VideoMATH/dp/3540719601
||1940: Sam Eyde dies ... engineer and industrialist, founder of both Norsk Hydro and Elkem. Pic.
||1942: World War II: A Japanese submarine surfaces near the Columbia River in Oregon, firing 17 shells at nearby Fort Stevens in one of only a handful of attacks by Japan against the United States mainland.
||1945: Robert Dewar born ... computer scientist and academic. Pic.
||1948: The Manchester Small-Scale Experimental Machine (SSEM), nicknamed Baby, was the world's first stored-program computer. It was built at the Victoria University of Manchester, England, by Frederic C. Williams, Tom Kilburn and Geoff Tootill, and ran its first program on 21 June 1948. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manchester_Small-Scale_Experimental_Machine


File:D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson.jpg|link=D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson (nonfiction)|1948: Biologist, mathematician, and classics scholar [[D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson (nonfiction)|D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson]] dies.
File:D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson.jpg|link=D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson (nonfiction)|1948: Biologist, mathematician, and classics scholar [[D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson (nonfiction)|D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson]] dies.
File:Lorenz_attractor_trajectory-through-phase-space.gif|link=Lorenz system (nonfiction)|1996: [[Lorenz system (nonfiction)|Lorenz system]] diagram develops self-awareness, invents new class of [[Gnomon algorithm functions]].
 
||1951: Charles Dillon Perrine dies ... astronomer. Pic.
 
||1954: Gideon Sundback dies ... engineer and businessman, developed the zipper. Pic.
 
||1957: Johannes Stark dies ... physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic.
 
||1970: Sukarno dies ... engineer and politician, 1st President of Indonesia.
 
||1973: Botanist and evolutionary biologist Thorvald (Thorwald) Julius Sørensen  born. He published the botanical research of the Three-year Expedition to East Greenland. Pic.
 
||1973: In handing down the decision in Miller v. California 413 US 15, the Supreme Court of the United States establishes the Miller test for obscenity in U.S. law.
 
||1982: Hendrik Wade Bode dies ... engineer, researcher, inventor, author and scientist, of Dutch ancestry. As a pioneer of modern control theory and electronic telecommunications he revolutionized both the content and methodology of his chosen fields of research. Pic.
 
||1982: Joseph Friedman dies ... inventor, invented the bendy straw. Pic.
 
||1987: Madman Muntz dies ... engineer and businessman, founded the Muntz Car Company.
 
||1994: William Wilson Morgan dies ... astronomer and astrophysicist. The principal theme in Dr. Morgan's work was stellar and galaxy classification. He is also known for helping prove the existence of spiral arms in our galaxy.  Pic search: https://www.google.com/search?q=William+Wilson+Morgan
 
||1999: Edwin Hewitt dies ... mathematician known for his work in abstract harmonic analysis and for his discovery, in collaboration with Leonard Jimmie Savage, of the Hewitt–Savage zero–one law. Pic.
 
||2004: SpaceShipOne becomes the first privately funded spaceplane to achieve spaceflight.
 
||2006: Pluto's newly discovered moons are officially named Nix and Hydra.
 
||2007: John Todd dies ... professor of mathematics and a pioneer in the field of numerical analysis. Pic.
 
||2013: James P. Gordon dies ... physicist and academic. Pic.
 
||2017: Jean-Pierre Kahane dies ... mathematician.  He contributed to harmonic analysis. Pic.
 
||2018: Grigory Barenblatt dies ... mathematician and academic. He will contribute to fracture mechanics, fluid and gas flows in porous media, the mechanics of a non-classical deformable solids, turbulence, and self-similarities. Pic.
 
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  • 1652: Architect Inigo Jones dies. He was one of the first architects of the early modern period to employ Vitruvian rules of proportion and symmetry in his buildings.

    1652: Architect Inigo Jones dies. He was one of the first architects of the early modern period to employ Vitruvian rules of proportion and symmetry in his buildings.

  • 1781: Mathematician and physicist Siméon Denis Poisson born. His memoirs on the theory of electricity and magnetism will constitute a new branch of mathematical physics.

    1781: Mathematician and physicist Siméon Denis Poisson born. His memoirs on the theory of electricity and magnetism will constitute a new branch of mathematical physics.

  • 1948: Biologist, mathematician, and classics scholar D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson dies.

    1948: Biologist, mathematician, and classics scholar D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson dies.

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