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1198: Polymath Ibn Rushd (Averoess) dies. He wrote on logic, Aristotelian and Islamic philosophy, theology, the Maliki school of Islamic jurisprudence, psychology, political and Andalusian classical music theory, geography, mathematics, and the mediæval sciences of medicine, astronomy, physics, and celestial mechanics.
1452: Mathematician, astronomer, astrologer, priest, maker of astronomical instruments, and professor Johannes Stöffler born.
1804: Mathematician and academic Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi born. He will make fundamental contributions to elliptic functions, dynamics, differential equations, and number theory.
1815: Mathematician and writer Ada Lovelace born. She will do pioneering work in symbolic language for machine processes, developing what will later be called computer programs for Charles Babbage's early mechanical general-purpose computer, the Analytical Engine.
1825: Bergamot essential oil gives Charles Grey the strength to carry on against all opposition.
1831: Physicist and academic Thomas Johann Seebeck dies. He discovered the thermoelectric effect.
1959: Chrome Plover, the famous musical electroplating ensemble, announces new controller units.
1989: Animated Lorenz system diagram celebrates the life and work of Ada Lovelace.
2014: The Eel receives news from informants.
2016: Egg Tooth Neighborhood Association celebrates life and work of Ada Lovelace.

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 File:Johannes Stöffler.jpg|link=Johannes Stöffler (nonfiction)|1452: Mathematician, astronomer, astrologer, priest, maker of astronomical instruments, and professor [[Johannes Stöffler (nonfiction)|Johannes Stöffler]] born.
 File:Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi.jpg|link=Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi (nonfiction)|1804: Mathematician and academic [[Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi (nonfiction)|Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi]] born. He will make fundamental contributions to elliptic functions, dynamics, differential equations, and number theory.
-File:Ada Lovelace.jpg|link=Ada Lovelace (nonfiction)|1815: Mathematician and writer [[Ada Lovelace (nonfiction)|Ada Lovelace]] born.
+File:Ada Lovelace.jpg|link=Ada Lovelace (nonfiction)|1815: Mathematician and writer [[Ada Lovelace (nonfiction)|Ada Lovelace]] born.  She will do pioneering work in symbolic language for machine processes, developing what will later be called computer programs for Charles Babbage's early mechanical general-purpose computer, the Analytical Engine.
 File:Bergamot essential oil.jpg|link=Bergamot essential oil (nonfiction)|1825: [[Bergamot essential oil (nonfiction)|Bergamot essential oil]] gives [[Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey (nonfiction)|Charles Grey]] the strength to carry on against all opposition.
 File:Thomas Seebeck.jpg|link=Thomas Johann Seebeck (nonfiction)|1831: Physicist and academic [[Thomas Johann Seebeck (nonfiction)|Thomas Johann Seebeck]] dies. He discovered the thermoelectric effect.