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| ||120 – Vettius Valens, Greek astrologer (d. 175)
| | File:Alexis Clairault.jpg|link=Alexis Clairaut (nonfiction)|1713: Mathematician, astronomer, and geophysicist [[Alexis Clairaut (nonfiction)|Alexis Clairaut]] born. Clairaut's work will help to establish the validity of the principles and results that Sir Isaac Newton had outlined in the ''Principia'' of 1687. |
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| ||1588 – Ole Worm, Danish physician and historian (d. 1654)
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| File:Alexis Clairault.jpg|link=Alexis Clairaut (nonfiction)|1713: Mathematician, astronomer, and geophysicist [[Alexis Clairaut (nonfiction)|Alexis Clairaut]] born. His work will help to establish the validity of the principles and results that Sir Isaac Newton had outlined in the ''Principia'' of 1687. | |
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| File:Carl von Linné.jpg|link=Carl Linnaeus (nonfiction)|1733: Botanist, physician, and zoologist [[Carl Linnaeus (nonfiction)|Carl Linnaeus]] invents a binomial nomenclature system of taxonomy to define and characterize a wide range of [[crimes against mathematical constants]].
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| ||1753 – Lazare Carnot, French general, mathematician, and politician, French Minister of the Interior (d. 1823)
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| ||1795 – Gérard Paul Deshayes, French geologist and chronologist (d. 1875)
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| File:Edward Lear.jpg|link=Edward Lear (nonfiction)|1812: Artist, musician, author, and poet [[Edward Lear (nonfiction)|Edward Lear]] born either today or yesterday.
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| ||1857 – Ronald Ross, Indian-English physician and mathematician, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1932)
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| ||Denison Olmsted (d. May 13, 1859) was an American physicist and astronomer. Professor Olmsted is credited with giving birth to meteor science after the 1833 Leonid meteor shower over North America spurred him to study this phenomenon.
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| ||1866 – Nikolai Brashman, Czech-Russian mathematician and academic (b. 1796)
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| ||1878 – Joseph Henry, American physicist and academic (b. 1797)
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| File:Thomas Edison.jpg|link=Thomas Edison (nonfiction)|1880: In Menlo Park, New Jersey, inventor [[Thomas Edison (nonfiction)|Thomas Edison]] performs the first test of his electric railway. | | File:Thomas Edison.jpg|link=Thomas Edison (nonfiction)|1880: In Menlo Park, New Jersey, inventor [[Thomas Edison (nonfiction)|Thomas Edison]] performs the first test of his electric railway. |
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| ||1885 – Friedrich Gustav Jakob Henle, German physician, pathologist, and anatomist (b. 1809) | | File:Arthur Scherbius.jpg|link=Arthur Scherbius (nonfiction)|1929: Electrical engineer and inventor [[Arthur Scherbius (nonfiction)|Arthur Scherbius]] dies. Scherbius invented and patented the famous mechanical cipher Enigma machine. |
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| ||1888 – With the passage of the Lei Áurea ("Golden Law"), Empire of Brazil abolishes slavery. | | File:Roger Zelazny 1988.jpg|link=Roger Zelazny (nonfiction)|1937: Writer [[Roger Zelazny (nonfiction)|Roger Zelazny]] born. Zelazny will win the Nebula award three times, and the Hugo award six times. |
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| ||Jacques-Louis Soret (d. 13 May 1890) was a Swiss chemist who in 1878, along with Marc Delafontaine, first observed holmium spectroscopically. Soret was also responsible for correctly working out the chemical composition of ozone as being three oxygen atoms bound together. | | File:Marguerite Perey.jpg|link=Marguerite Perey (nonfiction)|1974: Physicist and chemist [[Marguerite Perey (nonfiction)|Marguerite Perey]] dies. Perey discovered the element francium while purifying samples of lanthanum. |
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| ||1914 – Antonia Ferrín Moreiras, Spanish mathematician, academic, and astronomer (d. 2009)
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| ||Arthur Scherbius (d. 13 May 1929) was a German electrical engineer who patented an invention for a mechanical cipher machine, later sold as the Enigma machine.
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| ||1930 – Fridtjof Nansen, Norwegian scientist, explorer, and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1861)
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| ||David Todd Wilkinson (b. 13 May 1935) was a world-renowned pioneer in the field of cosmology, specializing in the study of the cosmic microwave background radiation (CMB) left over from the Big Bang.
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| File:The Safe-Cracker.jpg|link=The Safe-Cracker|1936: ''The Safe-Cracker'' wins Pulitzer Prize, hailed as "most daring illustration of the year."
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| File:Roger Zelazny 1988.jpg|link=Roger Zelazny (nonfiction)|1937: Writer [[Roger Zelazny (nonfiction)|Roger Zelazny]] born. He will win the Nebula award three times, and the Hugo award six times.
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| ||1938 – Charles Édouard Guillaume, Swiss-French physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1861)
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| ||1939 – The first commercial FM radio station in the United States is launched in Bloomfield, Connecticut. The station later becomes WDRC-FM.
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| File:Stanisław Leśniewski.jpg|link=Stanisław Leśniewski (nonfiction)|1939: Mathematician, philosopher, and logician [[Stanisław Leśniewski (nonfiction)|Stanisław Leśniewski]] dies. He posited three nested formal systems, to which he will give the Greek-derived names of protothetic, ontology, and mereology.
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| ||1957 – Michael Fekete, Hungarian-Israeli mathematician and academic (b. 1886)
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| ||1958 – Ben Carlin becomes the first (and only) person to circumnavigate the world by amphibious vehicle, having travelled over 17,000 kilometres (11,000 mi) by sea and 62,000 kilometres (39,000 mi) by land during a ten-year journey.
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| ||1977 – Mickey Spillane, American mobster (b. 1934)
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| ||1985 – Police release a bomb on MOVE headquarters in Philadelphia to end a stand-off, killing six adults and five children, and destroying the homes of 250 city residents.
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| ||1995 – Hao Wang, Chinese-American logician, philosopher, and mathematician (b. 1921)
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| ||1998 – India carries out two nuclear tests at Pokhran, following the three conducted on May 11. The United States and Japan impose economic sanctions on India.
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| ||Sergey Alexandrovich Afanasyev (d. May 13, 2001) was a prominent Soviet engineer, space and defence industry executive, the first Minister of the Soviet-era Ministry of General Machine Building.
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| ||2005 – George Dantzig, American mathematician and academic (b. 1914)
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