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||1535 – Leonhard Rauwolf, German physician and botanist (d. 1596)
||1535: Leonhard Rauwolf born ... physician and botanist.


||1639 – Increase Mather, American minister and author (d. 1723)
||1639: Increase Mather born ... minister and author.


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.


||1676 – Anthony Collins, English philosopher and author (d. 1729)
||1676: Anthony Collins born ... philosopher and author.


||John Dollond FRS (b. 21 June 1706) was an English optician, known for his successful optics business and his patenting and commercialization of achromatic doublets. Pic.
||1706: John Dollond born ... optician, known for his successful optics business and his patenting and commercialization of achromatic doublets. Pic.


||1710 – James Short, Scottish-English mathematician and optician (d. 1768)
||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)


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.
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.


||1811 – Carlo Matteucci, Italian physicist and neurophysiologist (d. 1868)
||1811: Carlo Matteucci born ... physicist and neurophysiologist.


||1814 – Anton Nuhn, German anatomist and academic (d. 1889)
||1814: Anton Nuhn born ... anatomist and academic.


||1828 – Ferdinand André Fouqué, French geologist and academic (d. 1904)
||1828: Ferdinand André Fouqué born ... geologist and academic.


||1845 – Arthur Cowper Ranyard, English astrophysicist and astronomer (d. 1894)
||1845: Arthur Cowper Ranyard born ... astrophysicist and astronomer.


||Louis Jacques Thénard (d. 21 June 1857), was a French chemist.
||1857: Louis Jacques Thénard dies ... chemist.


||1863 – Max Wolf, German astronomer and academic (d. 1932) - a 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.
||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, Jewish-German chemist and academic (d. 1915)
||1870: Clara Immerwahr born ... chemist and academic.


||1870 – Anthony Michell, English-Australian engineer (d. 1959)
||1870: Anthony Michell born ... engineer.


||1874 – Anders Jonas Ångström, Swedish physicist and astronomer (b. 1814)
||1874: Anders Jonas Ångström dies ... physicist and astronomer.


||1876 – Willem Hendrik Keesom, Dutch physicist and academic (d. 1956). Pic.
||1876: Willem Hendrik Keesom born ... physicist and academic. Pic.


||Henri Édouard Tresca (d. 21 June 1885) was a French mechanical engineer and academic. He is the father of the field of plasticity, or non-recoverable deformations. 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, Canadian geologist and petrologist (d. 1956)
||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.
||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, Polish pilot and engineer (d. 2000)
||1912: Kazimierz Leski born ... pilot and engineer.


||1915 – Wilhelm Gliese, German soldier and astronomer (d. 1993)
||1915: Wilhelm Gliese born ... soldier and astronomer.


||1916 – Herbert Friedman, American physicist and astronomer (d. 2000)
||1916: Herbert Friedman born ... physicist and astronomer.


||Zoltán Pál Dienes (anglicized as Zoltan Paul Dienes) (b.June 21, 1916) was a Hungarian 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.
||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.


||Ferdinand Rudio (d. 21 June 1929) was a German and Swiss mathematician and historian of mathematics. Pic.
||1929: Ferdinand Rudio dies ... mathematician and historian of mathematics. Pic.


||Wolfgang Doeblin (d. 21 June 1940) was a French-German mathematician. Pic.
||1940: Wolfgang Doeblin dies ... mathematician. 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.
||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, English-American computer scientist and academic (d. 2015)
||1945: Robert Dewar born ... computer scientist and academic.


File:Lorenz_attractor_trajectory-through-phase-space.gif|link=Lorenz system (nonfiction)|1947: [[Lorenz system (nonfiction)|Lorenz system]] diagram develops self-awareness, invents new class of [[Gnomon algorithm functions]] which detect and prevent [[crimes against mathematical constants]].
File:Lorenz_attractor_trajectory-through-phase-space.gif|link=Lorenz system (nonfiction)|1947: [[Lorenz system (nonfiction)|Lorenz system]] diagram develops self-awareness, invents new class of [[Gnomon algorithm functions]] which detect and prevent [[crimes against mathematical constants]].
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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.


||1951 – Charles Dillon Perrine, American astronomer (b. 1867)
||1951: Charles Dillon Perrine dies ... astronomer.


File:The Governess.jpg|link=The Governess|1952: Crime-fighter [[The Governess]] chastises corrupt accounting firm, compels accountants to return money embezzled from orphan's fund and personally apologize to orphans.
File:The Governess.jpg|link=The Governess|1952: Crime-fighter [[The Governess]] chastises corrupt accounting firm, compels accountants to return money embezzled from orphan's fund and personally apologize to orphans.


||1957 – Johannes Stark, German physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1874)
||1957: Johannes Stark dies ... physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate.


||1970 – Sukarno, Indonesian engineer and politician, 1st President of Indonesia (b. 1901)
||1970: Sukarno dies ... engineer and politician, 1st President of Indonesia.


||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.
||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.


||Hendrik Wade Bode (d. June 21, 1982) was an American 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: 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.


||1987 – Madman Muntz, American engineer and businessman, founded the Muntz Car Company (b. 1914)
||1987: Madman Muntz dies ... engineer and businessman, founded the Muntz Car Company.


||1994 – William Wilson Morgan, American astronomer and astrophysicist (b. 1906)
||1994: William Wilson Morgan dies ... astronomer and astrophysicist.


||Edwin Hewitt (d. June 21, 1999) was an American 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.
||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.


||2004 – SpaceShipOne becomes the first privately funded spaceplane to achieve spaceflight.
||2004: SpaceShipOne becomes the first privately funded spaceplane to achieve spaceflight.


||2006 – Pluto's newly discovered moons are officially named Nix and Hydra.
||2006: Pluto's newly discovered moons are officially named Nix and Hydra.


||John Todd (d. June 21, 2007) was a professor of mathematics and a pioneer in the field of numerical analysis.
||2007: John Todd dies ... professor of mathematics and a pioneer in the field of numerical analysis.


||2013 – James P. Gordon, American physicist and academic (b. 1928)
||2013: James P. Gordon dies ... physicist and academic.


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