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File:Gutenberg.jpg|link=Johannes Gutenberg (nonfiction)|1468: Blacksmith, goldsmith, inventor, and publisher [[Johannes Gutenberg (nonfiction)|Johannes Gutenberg]] dies.
File:Gutenberg.jpg|link=Johannes Gutenberg (nonfiction)|1468: Blacksmith, goldsmith, inventor, and publisher [[Johannes Gutenberg (nonfiction)|Johannes Gutenberg]] dies.


File:Thomas Fincke.jpg|link=Thomas Fincke (nonfiction)|1581: Mathematician and physicist [[Thomas Fincke (nonfiction)|Thomas Fincke]] develops new class of [[Gnomon algorithm functions]] based on tangents and secants.
||1690: The colony of Massachusetts issues the first paper money in the Americas. See: https://www.nationalgeographic.org/thisday/feb3/paper-money-introduced-us/


||1690: The colony of Massachusetts issues the first paper money in the Americas.
||1737: Mathematician and academic Tommaso Ceva dies. His only published mathematical work, ''Opuscula Mathematica'', dealt with geometry, gravity and arithmetic. He was also a noted poet and dedicated a significant amount of his time at this task. Pic.


||1737: Tommaso Ceva dies ... mathematician and academic.
||1774: Karl Brandan Mollweide born ... German mathematician and astronomer in Halle and Leipzig. Pic search scanty.


File:Giuseppe Piazzi.jpg|link=Giuseppe Piazzi (nonfiction)|1767: Priest, mathematician, and astronomer [[Giuseppe Piazzi (nonfiction)|Giuseppe Piazzi]] uses [[scrying engine]] to pre-visualize the dwarf planet Ceres.
||1777: John Cheyne born ...  physician and author. He was one of the first to identify Cheyne–Stokes respiration. Pic.


||1774: Karl Brandan Mollweide born ... German mathematician and astronomer in Halle and Leipzig.  
||1790: Gideon Mantell born ... obstetrician, geologist and palaeontologist. His attempts to reconstruct the structure and life of Iguanodon began the scientific study of dinosaurs: in 1822 he was responsible for the discovery (and the eventual identification) of the first fossil teeth, and later much of the skeleton, of Iguanodon. Pic.


||1777: John Cheyne born ...  physician and author.
File:Johann Beckmann.png|link=Johann Beckmann (nonfiction)|1811: Scientist and author [[Johann Beckmann (nonfiction)|Johann Beckmann]] dies. He coined the word ''technology'', meaning the science of trades, and was the first to teach technology and write about it as an academic subject.  


||1790: Gideon Mantell born ... obstetrician, geologist and palaeontologist. His attempts to reconstruct the structure and life of Iguanodon began the scientific study of dinosaurs: in 1822 he was responsible for the discovery (and the eventual identification) of the first fossil teeth, and later much of the skeleton, of Iguanodon. Pic.
||1817: Achille Ernest Oscar Joseph Delesse born ... geologist and mineralogist. Pic.


||1811: Johann Beckmann dies ... scientific author and coiner of the word technology, to mean the science of trades. He was the first man to teach technology and write about it as an academic subject
||1821: Elizabeth Blackwell born ... physician and educator. She played an important role in both the United States and the United Kingdom as a social and moral reformer. She acted as a pioneer in promoting the education of women in medicine. Pic.  


||1821 – Elizabeth Blackwell, American physician and educator (d. 1910)
||1831: Ogden Nicholas Rood born ... physicist best known for his work in color theory. Pic.


||Ogden Nicholas Rood (b. 3 February 1831) was an American physicist best known for his work in color theory. Pic.
||1859: Hugo Junkers born ... engineer, designed the Junkers J 1. Pic.
 
||1859 – Hugo Junkers, German engineer, designed the Junkers J 1 (d. 1935)


File:Jean Baptiste Biot.jpg|link=Jean-Baptiste Biot (nonfiction)|1862: Physicist, astronomer, and mathematician [[Jean-Baptiste Biot (nonfiction)|Jean-Baptiste Biot]] dies. He established the reality of meteorites, made an early balloon flight, and studied the polarization of light.
File:Jean Baptiste Biot.jpg|link=Jean-Baptiste Biot (nonfiction)|1862: Physicist, astronomer, and mathematician [[Jean-Baptiste Biot (nonfiction)|Jean-Baptiste Biot]] dies. He established the reality of meteorites, made an early balloon flight, and studied the polarization of light.


File:Wilhelm Bauer.gif|link=Wilhelm Bauer (nonfiction)|1863: Inventor and engineer [[Wilhelm Bauer (nonfiction)|Wilhelm Bauer]] uses [[Gnomon algorithm functions]] to power new type of submarine, capable of remaining submerged as long as computation is maintained.
||1864: Petrus Jacobus Kipp dies ... Dutch apothecary, chemist and instrument maker. He became known as the inventor of the Kipp apparatus, chemistry equipment for the development of gases.


||1884: Gotthilf Heinrich Ludwig Hagen dies ... civil engineer who made important contributions to fluid dynamics, hydraulic engineering and probability theory.
||1884: Gotthilf Hagen dies ... civil engineer who made important contributions to fluid dynamics, hydraulic engineering and probability theory. Pic.


||1887: Georg Trakl born ... pharmacist and poet.
||1887: Georg Trakl born ... pharmacist and poet. Pic.


||1890: Paul Hermann Scherrer born ... physicist.
||1890: Paul Scherrer born ... physicist. Pic.


File:Gaston_Julia.jpg|link=Gaston Julia (nonfiction)|1893: Mathematician [[Gaston Julia (nonfiction)|Gaston Maurice Julia]] born. He will devise the formula for the Julia set.
File:Gaston_Julia.jpg|link=Gaston Julia (nonfiction)|1893: Mathematician [[Gaston Julia (nonfiction)|Gaston Julia]] born. He will devise the formula for the Julia set, which consists of values such that an arbitrarily small perturbation can cause drastic changes in the sequence of iterated function values. Julia's work will later prove foundational to chaos theory.


||1895: Thomas Penyngton Kirkman dies ... mathematician and ordained minister of the Church of England.  Pic: https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Kirkman
||1895: Thomas Penyngton Kirkman dies ... mathematician and ordained minister of the Church of England.  Pic: https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Kirkman
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||1898: Pavel Samuilovich Urysohn born ...mathematician of Jewish origin who is best known for his contributions in dimension theory, and for developing Urysohn's Metrization Theorem and Urysohn's Lemma. Pic.
||1898: Pavel Samuilovich Urysohn born ...mathematician of Jewish origin who is best known for his contributions in dimension theory, and for developing Urysohn's Metrization Theorem and Urysohn's Lemma. Pic.


||1905: Arne Beurling born ... mathematician and academic ... worked extensively in harmonic analysis, complex analysis and potential theory. The "Beurling factorization" helped mathematical scientists to understand the Wold decomposition, and inspired further work on the invariant subspaces of linear operators and operator algebras, e.g. Håkan Hedenmalm's factorization theorem for Bergman spaces.
||1905: Arne Beurling born ... mathematician and academic ... worked extensively in harmonic analysis, complex analysis and potential theory. The "Beurling factorization" helped mathematical scientists to understand the Wold decomposition, and inspired further work on the invariant subspaces of linear operators and operator algebras, e.g. Håkan Hedenmalm's factorization theorem for Bergman spaces. Pic search.
 
||1909: Simone Weil born ... mystic and philosopher. Pic.
 
||1911: Francis Joseph Murray born ... mathematician, known for his foundational work (with John von Neumann) on functional analysis, and what subsequently became known as von Neumann algebras. Pic search.


||1909: Simone Weil born ... mystic and philosopher.
||1917: Georgi Evgen'evich Shilov born ... Soviet mathematician and expert in the field of functional analysis, who contributed to the theory of normed rings and generalized functions. Pic.


||Francis Joseph Murray (b. February 3, 1911) was a mathematician, known for his foundational work (with John von Neumann) on functional analysis, and what subsequently became known as von Neumann algebras.
||1921: Bruno Touschek born ... physicist, a survivor of the Holocaust, and initiator of research on electron-positron colliders. Pic.


||Georgi Evgen'evich Shilov (b. 3 February 1917) was a Soviet mathematician and expert in the field of functional analysis, who contributed to the theory of normed rings and generalized functions. Pic.
||1924: Edward Palmer Thompson born ... historian, writer, socialist and peace campaigner. Pic (megaphone).


||Marion Franklin Tinsley (b. February 3, 1927) was an American mathematician and checkers player. He is considered to be the greatest checkers player who ever lived. Pic (nice).
File:Oliver Heaviside.jpg|link=Oliver Heaviside (nonfiction)|1925: Self-taught electrical engineer, mathematician, and physicist [[Oliver Heaviside (nonfiction)|Oliver Heaviside]] dies.  Heaviside made major breakthroughs in the applied mathematics of electrical engineering; although he was at odds with the scientific establishment for most of his life, Heaviside changed the face of telecommunications, mathematics, and science for years to come.
 
File:Marion Tinsley.jpg|link=Marion Tinsley (nonfiction)|1927: Mathematician and checkers player [[Marion Tinsley (nonfiction)|Marion Tinsley]] born. Tinsley will be "to checkers what Leonardo da Vinci was to science, what Michelangelo was to art and what Beethoven was to music."


File:Agner Krarup Erlang.jpg|link=Agner Krarup Erlang (nonfiction)|1929: Mathematician and engineer [[Agner Krarup Erlang (nonfiction)|Agner Krarup Erlang]] dies. He invented the fields of traffic engineering, queueing theory, and telephone networks analysis.
File:Agner Krarup Erlang.jpg|link=Agner Krarup Erlang (nonfiction)|1929: Mathematician and engineer [[Agner Krarup Erlang (nonfiction)|Agner Krarup Erlang]] dies. He invented the fields of traffic engineering, queueing theory, and telephone networks analysis.


||1935 Hugo Junkers, German engineer, designed the Junkers J 1 (b. 1859)
||1935: Hugo Junkers dies ... engineer, designed the Junkers J 1. Pic.


||1956 Émile Borel, French mathematician and academic (b. 1871)
||1956: Émile Borel dies ... mathematician and academic. Pic.
 
||1958: Milutin Dostanić born ... mathematician and academic. He contributed to functional analysis and operator theory. Pic.


File:Cantor Parabola and Gnotilus at Athens.jpg|link=Cantor Parabola and Gnotilus at Athens|1959: ''[[Cantor Parabola and Gnotilus at Athens]]'' hailed as "a triumph of art and crime-fighting."
File:Cantor Parabola and Gnotilus at Athens.jpg|link=Cantor Parabola and Gnotilus at Athens|1959: ''[[Cantor Parabola and Gnotilus at Athens]]'' hailed as "a triumph of art and crime-fighting."


File:Boeing EC-135C Looking Glass.jpg|link=Operation Looking Glass (nonfiction)|1961: The United States Air Forces begins [[Operation Looking Glass (nonfiction)|Operation Looking Glass]], and over the next 30 years, a "Doomsday Plane" is always in the air, with the capability of taking direct control of the United States' bombers and missiles in the event of the destruction of the SAC's command post.
File:Boeing EC-135C Looking Glass.jpg|link=Operation Looking Glass (nonfiction)|1961: The United States Air Forces begins [[Operation Looking Glass (nonfiction)|Operation Looking Glass]], and over the next 30 years, a "Doomsday Plane" is always in the air, with the capability of taking direct control of the United States' bombers and missiles in the event of the destruction of the SAC's command post.
||1968: Carl Krauch dies ... chemist, industrialist and Nazi war criminal. He was an executive at BASF (later IG Farben); during World War II, he was chairman of the supervisory board. He was a key implementer of the Reich’s Four-Year Plan to achieve national economic self-sufficiency and promote industrial production. He was Plenipotentiary of Special Issues in Chemical Production. Pic.


File:William_D._Coolidge.jpg|link=William D. Coolidge (nonfiction)|1975: Physicist and engineer [[William D. Coolidge (nonfiction)|William D. Coolidge]] dies. He made major contributions to X-ray machines, and developed ductile tungsten for incandescent light bulbs.
File:William_D._Coolidge.jpg|link=William D. Coolidge (nonfiction)|1975: Physicist and engineer [[William D. Coolidge (nonfiction)|William D. Coolidge]] dies. He made major contributions to X-ray machines, and developed ductile tungsten for incandescent light bulbs.


||1985 Frank Oppenheimer, American physicist and academic (b. 1912)
||1985: Frank Oppenheimer dies ... physicist and academic. Pic.
 
||2004: Natascha Artin Brunswick dies ... mathematician and photographer. Pic.


||Natascha Artin Brunswick, née Jasny (d. February 3, 2003) was a German-American mathematician and photographer. Pic.
||2005: Ernst Mayr dies ... biologist and ornithologist ... taxonomy, speciation. Pic.


||2005 – Ernst Mayr, German-American biologist and ornithologist (b. 1904) taxonomy, speciation
||2007: Thomas Christian Sneum dies ... Danish pilot. He collected information about the German Freya radar that had been installed on his home island in Denmark. On the night of 21–22 June 1941 he and pilot Kjeld Pedersen made a spectacular escape from Denmark to Great Britain in a D.H. Hornet Moth. Pic: https://alchetron.com/Thomas-Sneum


File:Crimson Blossom.jpg|link=Crimson Blossom (nonfiction)|2017: ''[[Crimson Blossom (nonfiction)|Crimson Blossom]]'' voted Picture of the Day by the citizens of [[New Minneapolis, Canada]].
File:Parch and Rehydration.jpg|link=Parch and Rehydration|2009: Premiere of '''''[[Parch and Rehydration]]''''', an American hydrological satire mockumentary sitcom television series about a perky, mid-level plumber in the Water Department of Drownee, a fictional town in Indiana.  


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