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||1720 – Maria Margarethe Kirch, German astronomer and educator (b. 1670)
||1720: Maria Margaretha Kirch dies ... astronomer, and one of the first famous astronomers of her period due to her writings on the conjunction of the sun with Saturn, Venus, and Jupiter in 1709 and 1712 respectively. Calendar pic.


||1731 – Brook Taylor, English mathematician and theorist (b. 1685)
||1731: Brook Taylor dies ... mathematician and theorist. Pic.


||1737 – Joseph Saurin, French minister and mathematician (b. 1659)
||1737: Joseph Saurin dies ... minister and mathematician. Pic search: https://www.google.com/search?q=joseph+saurin


||1766 – Charles Macintosh, Scottish chemist and the inventor of waterproof fabric (d. 1843)
||1758: Jean-Louis Calandrini dies ... scientist ... professor of mathematics and philosophy. He was the author of some studies on the aurora borealis, comets, and the effects of lightning, as well as of an important but unpublished work on flat and spherical trigonometry. He also wrote a commentary on the Principia of Isaac Newton. Pic.
 
||1766: Charles Macintosh born ... chemist and the inventor of waterproof fabric. Pic.


File:Supplice de 9 émigrés Octobre 1793.jpg|link=French Revolution (nonfiction)|1786: [[French Revolution (nonfiction)|French Revolution]]: The Assembly of Notables is convened.
File:Supplice de 9 émigrés Octobre 1793.jpg|link=French Revolution (nonfiction)|1786: [[French Revolution (nonfiction)|French Revolution]]: The Assembly of Notables is convened.


||1796 – Johann Christian Poggendorff, German physicist and journalist (d. 1877)
||1796: Johann Christian Poggendorff born ... physicist and journalist. Pic.


||1800 – Charles Goodyear, American chemist and engineer (d. 1860)
||1800: Charles Goodyear born ... chemist and engineer. Pic.
 
||1816: Carl Ludwig pic ... physician and physiologist. His work as both a researcher and teacher had a major influence on the understanding, methods and apparatus used in almost all branches of physiology. Pic.


File:Thomas Joannes Stieltjes.jpg|link=Thomas Joannes Stieltjes (nonfiction)|1856: Mathematician [[Thomas Joannes Stieltjes (nonfiction)|Thomas Joannes Stieltjes]] born. He will work on almost all branches of analysis, continued fractions and number theory, will be called "the father of the analytic theory of continued fractions."
File:Thomas Joannes Stieltjes.jpg|link=Thomas Joannes Stieltjes (nonfiction)|1856: Mathematician [[Thomas Joannes Stieltjes (nonfiction)|Thomas Joannes Stieltjes]] born. He will work on almost all branches of analysis, continued fractions and number theory, will be called "the father of the analytic theory of continued fractions."


||1860 – The launch of HMS Warrior, with her combination of screw propeller, iron hull and iron armour, renders all previous warships obsolete.
||1860: The launch of HMS ''Warrior'', with her combination of screw propeller, iron hull and iron armour, renders all previous warships obsolete.
 
||1861: Kurt Wilhelm Sebastian Hensel born ... mathematician. Pic.


File:Leopold Kronecker 1865.jpg|link=Leopold Kronecker (nonfiction)|1891: Mathematician [[Leopold Kronecker (nonfiction)|Leopold Kronecker]] dies. His work included number theory, algebra, and logic.
File:Leopold Kronecker 1865.jpg|link=Leopold Kronecker (nonfiction)|1891: Mathematician [[Leopold Kronecker (nonfiction)|Leopold Kronecker]] dies. His work included number theory, algebra, and logic.


||1908 – Magnus Pyke, English scientist and author (d. 1992)
||1905: Martin Wiberg dies ... philosopher and engineer ... computer pioneer for his c. 1859 (1857-1860) invention of a machine the size of a sewing machine that could print logarithmic tables (first interest tables appeared in 1860, logarithmic in 1875). Pic.
 
||1908: Magnus Pyke born ... scientist and author. Pic.


File:Klaus Fuchs.jpg|link=Emil Julius Klaus Fuchs (nonfiction)|1911: Physicist [[Emil Julius Klaus Fuchs (nonfiction)|Emil Julius Klaus Fuchs]] born. He will be convicted of supplying information from the Manhattan Project to the Soviet Union during and shortly after the Second World War.
File:Klaus Fuchs.jpg|link=Emil Julius Klaus Fuchs (nonfiction)|1911: Physicist [[Emil Julius Klaus Fuchs (nonfiction)|Emil Julius Klaus Fuchs]] born. He will be convicted of supplying information from the Manhattan Project to the Soviet Union during and shortly after the Second World War.


||1941 – Tullio Levi-Civita, Italian mathematician and scholar (b. 1873)
||1929: Jürgen Ehlers born ... physicist who contributed to the understanding of Albert Einstein's theory of general relativity.  Pic.
 
||1936: Lucy, Lady Houston dies ... philanthropist, political activist, and suffragette. Beginning in 1933, she published Britain's ''Saturday Review'', which was best known for its attacks on what the paper labelled the "unpatriotic" National Governments of Ramsay MacDonald and Stanley Baldwin. She has been acknowledged as an aviation pioneer, "the saviour of the Spitfire". Pic.
 
File:Tullio Levi-civita.jpg|link=Tullio Levi-Civita (nonfiction)|1941: Mathematician and academic [[Tullio Levi-Civita (nonfiction)|Tullio Levi-Civita]] dies. He gained fame for his work on absolute differential calculus (tensor calculus) and its applications to the theory of relativity, and made significant contributions in other areas.
 
||1947: Richard Crandall born ... physicist and computer scientist.
 
||1949: Stefan Meyer dies ... physicist involved in research on radioactivity. He became director of the Institute for Radium Research in Vienna and received the Lieben Prize in 1913 for his research on radium. Pic: https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stefan_Meyer
 
||1949: KC2XAK of Bridgeport, Connecticut becomes the first Ultra high frequency (UHF) television station to operate a daily schedule.


File:Diagramaceous soil bingo algorithm harvest.jpg|link=Diagramaceous soil|1943: Bingo tokens harvested from [[diagramaceous soil]] using new class of [[Gnomon algorithm functions]].
||1965: Tibor Radó dies ... Hungarian mathematician. Pic.


||1947 – Richard Crandall, American physicist and computer scientist (d. 2012)
||1988: Carl Johnson dies ... public health physician who opposed nuclear testing. Pic.


||1949 – KC2XAK of Bridgeport, Connecticut becomes the first Ultra high frequency (UHF) television station to operate a daily schedule.
||1991: Ronald Richter dies ... scientist who became infamous in connection with the Argentine Huemul Project and the National Atomic Energy Commission (CNEA). The project was intended to generate energy from nuclear fusion. Pic.


|File:Brainiac Action Comics 242.png|link=Brainiac (nonfiction)|1953: [[Brainiac (nonfiction)|Brainiac]] challenges [[Superman (nonfiction)|Superman]] to predict who will play [[Lex Luthor (nonfiction)|Lex Luthor]] in upcoming Lex biopic.
||1991: Tony Strobl dies ... comics artist and animator. Link search yes: https://www.google.com/search?q=tony+strobl


|File:Lex Luthor Action Comics 23.png|link=Lex Luthor (nonfiction)|1954: [[Lex Luthor (nonfiction)|Lex Luthor]] planning new autobiographical film, asks [[Linus Pauling (nonfiction)|Linus Pauling]] to play the title role.
||2004: Julius Axelrod dies ... biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic.


|File:Linus Pauling.jpg|link=Linus Pauling (nonfiction)|1954: [[Linus Pauling (nonfiction)|Linus Pauling]] says he is "flattered, but cannot possibly accept" offer to play [[Lex Luthor (nonfiction)|Lex Luthor]] in planned film.
||2010: Meir "Manny" Lehman dies ... computer scientist and academic. His research contributions include the early realisation of the software evolution phenomenon and the eponymous Lehman's laws of software evolution. Pic search yes: https://www.google.com/search?q=manny+lehman+computer+science


||2004 – Julius Axelrod, American biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1912)
||2012: Bruce Stark dies ... cartoonist. Pic.


||2012 – Bruce Stark, American cartoonist (b. 1933)
||2017: Erhard Heinz dies ... mathematician known for his work on partial differential equations, in particular the Monge–Ampère equation. In 1994 he was awarded the Cantor medal. Pic.


||2013 – Paul Sally, American mathematician and academic (b. 1933)
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  • 1786: French Revolution: The Assembly of Notables is convened.

    1786: French Revolution: The Assembly of Notables is convened.

  • 1856: Mathematician Thomas Joannes Stieltjes born. He will work on almost all branches of analysis, continued fractions and number theory, will be called "the father of the analytic theory of continued fractions."

    1856: Mathematician Thomas Joannes Stieltjes born. He will work on almost all branches of analysis, continued fractions and number theory, will be called "the father of the analytic theory of continued fractions."

  • 1891: Mathematician Leopold Kronecker dies. His work included number theory, algebra, and logic.

    1891: Mathematician Leopold Kronecker dies. His work included number theory, algebra, and logic.

  • 1911: Physicist Emil Julius Klaus Fuchs born. He will be convicted of supplying information from the Manhattan Project to the Soviet Union during and shortly after the Second World War.

    1911: Physicist Emil Julius Klaus Fuchs born. He will be convicted of supplying information from the Manhattan Project to the Soviet Union during and shortly after the Second World War.

  • 1941: Mathematician and academic Tullio Levi-Civita dies. He gained fame for his work on absolute differential calculus (tensor calculus) and its applications to the theory of relativity, and made significant contributions in other areas.

    1941: Mathematician and academic Tullio Levi-Civita dies. He gained fame for his work on absolute differential calculus (tensor calculus) and its applications to the theory of relativity, and made significant contributions in other areas.

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