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File:Sir Isaac Newton by Sir Godfrey Kneller.jpg|link=Isaac Newton (nonfiction)|1687: [[Isaac Newton (nonfiction)|Isaac Newton]] publishes ''Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica'' ("Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy"). ''Principia''  states Newton's laws of motion, forming the foundation of classical mechanics; Newton's law of universal gravitation; and a derivation of Kepler's laws of planetary motion (which Kepler first obtained empirically).
File:Sir Isaac Newton by Sir Godfrey Kneller.jpg|link=Isaac Newton (nonfiction)|1687: [[Isaac Newton (nonfiction)|Isaac Newton]] publishes ''Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica'' ("Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy"). ''Principia''  states Newton's laws of motion, forming the foundation of classical mechanics; Newton's law of universal gravitation; and a derivation of Kepler's laws of planetary motion (which Kepler first obtained empirically).
||1805 – Robert FitzRoy, English captain, meteorologist, and politician, 2nd Governor of New Zealand (d. 1865) "forecasts"
||Karl Christoph Vogt (German: [foːkt]; originally Carl; d. 5 July 1817) was a German scientist, philosopher and politician
||1820 – William John Macquorn Rankine, Scottish physicist, mathematician, and engineer (d. 1872)
||1833 – Nicéphore Niépce, French inventor, created the first known photograph (b. 1765)
||1862 – George Nuttall, American-British bacteriologist (d. 1937) parasites
||1862 – Horatio Caro, English chess master (d. 1920)
||1867 – A. E. Douglass, American astronomer (d. 1962)
||1874 – Eugen Fischer, German physician and academic (d. 1967) Nazi
||1888 – Herbert Spencer Gasser, American physiologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1963)
||1888 – Louise Freeland Jenkins, American astronomer and academic (d. 1970)
||1891 – John Howard Northrop, American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1987)
||1904 – Ernst Mayr, German-American biologist and ornithologist (d. 2005)


|File:Emmy Noether.jpg|link=Emmy Noether (nonfiction)|1905: Mathematician [[Emmy Noether (nonfiction)|Emmy Noether]] publishes new class of [[Gnomon algorithm functions]] which detect and prevent [[crimes against mathematical constants]].
|File:Emmy Noether.jpg|link=Emmy Noether (nonfiction)|1905: Mathematician [[Emmy Noether (nonfiction)|Emmy Noether]] publishes new class of [[Gnomon algorithm functions]] which detect and prevent [[crimes against mathematical constants]].
||1911 – Endel Aruja, Estonian-Canadian physicist and academic (d. 2008)
||1915 – The Liberty Bell leaves Philadelphia by special train on its way to the Panama–Pacific International Exposition. This is the last trip outside Philadelphia that the custodians of the bell intend to permit.


File:The Safe-Cracker.jpg|link=The Safe-Cracker|1939: "''The Safe-Cracker'' was not a [[math crime]]," says art critic and alleged math criminal [[The Eel]]. "I was looking for evidence that I was framed.  And I found it."
File:The Safe-Cracker.jpg|link=The Safe-Cracker|1939: "''The Safe-Cracker'' was not a [[math crime]]," says art critic and alleged math criminal [[The Eel]]. "I was looking for evidence that I was framed.  And I found it."
||1966 – George de Hevesy, Hungarian-German chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1885)
||1973 – A boiling liquid expanding vapor explosion (BLEVE) in Kingman, Arizona, following a fire that broke out as propane was being transferred from a railroad car to a storage tank, kills eleven firefighters.
||1989 – Iran–Contra affair: Oliver North is sentenced by U.S. District Judge Gerhard A. Gesell to a three-year suspended prison term, two years probation, $150,000 in fines and 1,200 hours community service. His convictions are later overturned.


File:Staffordshire_Hoard.jpg|link=Staffordshire hoard (nonfiction)|2009: Discovery of the [[Staffordshire Hoard (nonfiction)|Staffordshire hoard]], the largest hoard of Anglo-Saxon gold ever discovered in England, consisting of more than 1,500 items found near the village of Hammerwich, near Lichfield, Staffordshire.
File:Staffordshire_Hoard.jpg|link=Staffordshire hoard (nonfiction)|2009: Discovery of the [[Staffordshire Hoard (nonfiction)|Staffordshire hoard]], the largest hoard of Anglo-Saxon gold ever discovered in England, consisting of more than 1,500 items found near the village of Hammerwich, near Lichfield, Staffordshire.
||2015 – Uffe Haagerup, Danish mathematician and academic (b. 1949)
||2015 – Yoichiro Nambu, Japanese-American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1921)


File:Pin Man number 1 cover art.jpg|link=Pin Man (nonfiction)|2017: [[Pin Man (nonfiction)|Pin Man #1]] is "a work in progress," says author [[Karl Jones (nonfiction)|Karl Jones]].  "I have characters sketches, and cover art, but I'm still thinking about the stories."
File:Pin Man number 1 cover art.jpg|link=Pin Man (nonfiction)|2017: [[Pin Man (nonfiction)|Pin Man #1]] is "a work in progress," says author [[Karl Jones (nonfiction)|Karl Jones]].  "I have characters sketches, and cover art, but I'm still thinking about the stories."
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