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||AD 41 – Britannicus, Roman son of Claudius (d. 55)
||1538 – Albrecht Altdorfer, German painter, engraver, and architect (b. 1480)
||1612 – Jodocus Hondius, Flemish cartographer (b. 1563)
||1624 – George Heriot, Scottish goldsmith and philanthropist, founded George Heriot's School (b. 1563)
||1665 – Rudolf Jakob Camerarius, German botanist and physician (d. 1721)
||1777 – Bernard Courtois, French chemist and academic (d. 1838)
||1785 – Pierre Louis Dulong, French physicist and chemist (d. 1838)
||1788 – Carl Reichenbach, German chemist and philosopher (d. 1869)
||1794 – Alexander Petrov, Russian chess player and composer (d. 1867)
||1804 – Immanuel Kant, German anthropologist, philosopher, and academic (b. 1724)
||1804 – Heinrich Lenz, German-Italian physicist and academic (d. 1865)
||1809 – Charles Darwin, English geologist and theorist (d. 1882)
||1851 – Edward Hargraves announces he has found gold in Bathurst, New South Wales, Australia, starting the Australian gold rushes.
||1861 – Lou Andreas-Salomé, Russian-German psychoanalyst and author (d. 1937)
||1877 – Louis Renault, French engineer and businessman, co-founded Renault (d. 1944)
||Max Bergmann (b. 12 February 1886) was a Jewish-German biochemist. He was the first to use the Carboxybenzyl protecting group for the synthesis of oligopeptides.
||1897 – Lincoln LaPaz, American astronomer and academic (d. 1985)
||1908 – Jean Effel, French painter, caricaturist, illustrator and journalist (d. 1982)
||1908 – Jacques Herbrand, French mathematician and philosopher (d. 1931)
File:Richard Dedekind.jpg|link=Richard Dedekind (nonfiction)|1916: Mathematician, philosopher, and academic [[Richard Dedekind (nonfiction)|Richard Dedekind]] dies. He made important contributions to abstract algebra (particularly ring theory), algebraic number theory and the definition of the real numbers.
File:Richard Dedekind.jpg|link=Richard Dedekind (nonfiction)|1916: Mathematician, philosopher, and academic [[Richard Dedekind (nonfiction)|Richard Dedekind]] dies. He made important contributions to abstract algebra (particularly ring theory), algebraic number theory and the definition of the real numbers.
||1918 – Julian Schwinger, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1994)
||1935 – USS Macon, one of the two largest helium-filled airships ever created, crashes into the Pacific Ocean off the coast of California and sinks.
File:Tunguska-Preservation-TV.jpg|link=Tunguska Event Preservation Society|1946: [[Tunguska Event Preservation Society]] pledge drive meet goal, raises enough computational power to re-create the [[Tunguska event (nonfiction)|original event]].
File:Tunguska-Preservation-TV.jpg|link=Tunguska Event Preservation Society|1946: [[Tunguska Event Preservation Society]] pledge drive meet goal, raises enough computational power to re-create the [[Tunguska event (nonfiction)|original event]].
||1946 – World War II: Operation Deadlight ends after scuttling 121 of 154 captured U-boats.
||1947 – Moses Gomberg, Ukrainian-American chemist and academic (b. 1866)
||1947 – The largest observed iron meteorite until that time creates an impact crater in Sikhote-Alin, in the Soviet Union.
File:Moses Gomberg.jpg|link=Moses Gomberg (nonfiction)|1947: Chemist [[Moses Gomberg (nonfiction)|Moses Gomberg]] dies. He  identified the triphenylmethyl radical, the first persistent radical to be discovered, and is thus known as the founder of radical chemistry.
File:Moses Gomberg.jpg|link=Moses Gomberg (nonfiction)|1947: Chemist [[Moses Gomberg (nonfiction)|Moses Gomberg]] dies. He  identified the triphenylmethyl radical, the first persistent radical to be discovered, and is thus known as the founder of radical chemistry.
||1958 – Douglas Hartree, English mathematician and physicist (b. 1897)
||1960 – Oskar Anderson, Bulgarian-German mathematician and academic (b. 1887)
File:Venera 1.jpg|link=Venera 1 (nonfiction)|1961: Spacecraft [[Venera 1 (nonfiction)|Venera 1]] launched. It will become the first man-made object to fly-by another planet by passing Venus (although it will lose contact with Earth and not send back any data).
File:Venera 1.jpg|link=Venera 1 (nonfiction)|1961: Spacecraft [[Venera 1 (nonfiction)|Venera 1]] launched. It will become the first man-made object to fly-by another planet by passing Venus (although it will lose contact with Earth and not send back any data).
||1974 – Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1970, is exiled from the Soviet Union.
File:Cherenkov high-energy literature test reactor.jpg|link=High-energy literature|1983: [[High-energy literature]] research project accidentally releases new class of [[crimes against mathematical constants]].
File:Cherenkov high-energy literature test reactor.jpg|link=High-energy literature|1983: [[High-energy literature]] research project accidentally releases new class of [[crimes against mathematical constants]].
||1994 – Four thieves break into the National Gallery of Norway and steal Edvard Munch's iconic painting The Scream.
||2000 – Charles M. Schulz, American cartoonist, created Peanuts (b. 1922)
||2001 – NEAR Shoemaker spacecraft touches down in the "saddle" region of 433 Eros, becoming the first spacecraft to land on an asteroid.
||2017 – Ren Xinmin, Chinese rocket scientist (b. 1915)
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  • 1916: Mathematician, philosopher, and academic Richard Dedekind dies. He made important contributions to abstract algebra (particularly ring theory), algebraic number theory and the definition of the real numbers.

    1916: Mathematician, philosopher, and academic Richard Dedekind dies. He made important contributions to abstract algebra (particularly ring theory), algebraic number theory and the definition of the real numbers.

  • 1946: Tunguska Event Preservation Society pledge drive meet goal, raises enough computational power to re-create the original event.

    1946: Tunguska Event Preservation Society pledge drive meet goal, raises enough computational power to re-create the original event.

  • 1947: Chemist Moses Gomberg dies. He identified the triphenylmethyl radical, the first persistent radical to be discovered, and is thus known as the founder of radical chemistry.

    1947: Chemist Moses Gomberg dies. He identified the triphenylmethyl radical, the first persistent radical to be discovered, and is thus known as the founder of radical chemistry.

  • 1961: Spacecraft Venera 1 launched. It will become the first man-made object to fly-by another planet by passing Venus (although it will lose contact with Earth and not send back any data).

    1961: Spacecraft Venera 1 launched. It will become the first man-made object to fly-by another planet by passing Venus (although it will lose contact with Earth and not send back any data).

  • 1983: High-energy literature research project accidentally releases new class of crimes against mathematical constants.

    1983: High-energy literature research project accidentally releases new class of crimes against mathematical constants.

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