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||1204 – Maimonides, Spanish rabbi and philosopher (b. 1135) | |||
File:Johannes Trithemius.jpg|link=Johannes Trithemius (nonfiction)|1516: Polymath [[Johannes Trithemius (nonfiction)|Johannes Trithemius]] dies. He is remembered as a lexicographer, chronicler, cryptographer, and occultist. | File:Johannes Trithemius.jpg|link=Johannes Trithemius (nonfiction)|1516: Polymath [[Johannes Trithemius (nonfiction)|Johannes Trithemius]] dies. He is remembered as a lexicographer, chronicler, cryptographer, and occultist. | ||
||1557 – Niccolò Fontana Tartaglia, Italian mathematician and engineer (b. 1499) | |||
||1662 – Francesco Bianchini, Italian astronomer and philosopher (d. 1729) | |||
||1724 – Franz Aepinus, German astronomer and philosopher (d. 1802) | |||
||1780 – Johann Wolfgang Döbereiner, German chemist, invented the Döbereiner's lamp (d. 1849) | |||
||1783 – Pehr Wilhelm Wargentin, Swedish astronomer and demographer (b. 1717) | |||
||1816 – Werner von Siemens, German engineer and businessman, founded Siemens (d. 1892) | |||
||Enrico Forlanini (b. 13 December 1848) was an Italian engineer, inventor and aeronautical pioneer, known for his works on helicopters, aircraft, hydrofoils and dirigibles. | |||
||1867 – Kristian Birkeland, Norwegian physicist and author (d. 1917) | |||
||1885 – Annie Dale Biddle Andrews, American mathematician (d. 1940) | |||
File:George_Pólya_circa_1973.jpg|link=George Pólya (nonfiction)|1887: Mathematician [[George Pólya (nonfiction)|George Pólya]] born. He will make fundamental contributions to combinatorics, number theory, numerical analysis and probability theory. | File:George_Pólya_circa_1973.jpg|link=George Pólya (nonfiction)|1887: Mathematician [[George Pólya (nonfiction)|George Pólya]] born. He will make fundamental contributions to combinatorics, number theory, numerical analysis and probability theory. | ||
||1895 – Ányos Jedlik, Hungarian physicist and engineer (b. 1800) | |||
||1908 – Elizabeth Alexander, British geologist, academic, and physicist (d. 1958) | |||
||1911 – Trygve Haavelmo, Norwegian economist and mathematician, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1999) | |||
||1919 – Woldemar Voigt, German physicist and academic (b. 1850) | |||
||1923 – Philip Warren Anderson, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate | |||
||1927 – Mehmet Nadir, Turkish mathematician and academic (b. 1856) | |||
||1930 – Fritz Pregl, Slovenian-Austrian chemist and physician, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1869) | |||
||1935 – Victor Grignard, French chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1871) | |||
||1950 – Abraham Wald, Hungarian mathematician and academic (b. 1902) | |||
||1962 – NASA launches Relay 1, the first active repeater communications satellite in orbit. | |||
||1972 – Apollo program: Eugene Cernan and Harrison Schmitt begin the third and final extra-vehicular activity (EVA) or "Moonwalk" of Apollo 17. To date they are the last humans to set foot on the Moon. | |||
||2004 – David Wheeler, English computer scientist and academic (b. 1927) | |||
File:Ridley-Scott-researching-Alien.jpg|link=Ridley Scott|2012: Documentary film-maker [[Ridley Scott]] meets his Kickstarter goal for new film named ''[[Alien (film) (nonfiction)|Alien]]''. | File:Ridley-Scott-researching-Alien.jpg|link=Ridley Scott|2012: Documentary film-maker [[Ridley Scott]] meets his Kickstarter goal for new film named ''[[Alien (film) (nonfiction)|Alien]]''. | ||
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Revision as of 21:45, 15 August 2017
1516: Polymath Johannes Trithemius dies. He is remembered as a lexicographer, chronicler, cryptographer, and occultist.
1887: Mathematician George Pólya born. He will make fundamental contributions to combinatorics, number theory, numerical analysis and probability theory.
2012: Documentary film-maker Ridley Scott meets his Kickstarter goal for new film named Alien.