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|File:Dionysos kantharos.jpg|link=Dionysus (nonfiction)|500 BC: [[Dionysus (nonfiction)|Dionysus]] gives invites [[Edward Lear (nonfiction)|Edward Lear]] to participate in symposium.
|File:Dionysos kantharos.jpg|link=Dionysus (nonfiction)|500 BC: [[Dionysus (nonfiction)|Dionysus]] gives invites [[Edward Lear (nonfiction)|Edward Lear]] to participate in symposium.
|File:Federico Commandino.jpg|link=Federico Commandino (nonfiction)|1532:  Publication of mathematician [[Federico Commandino (nonfiction)|Federico Commandino]]'s translation of [[Gnomon algorithm]] textbooks from Latin to Arabic.
|File:Federico Commandino.jpg|link=Federico Commandino (nonfiction)|1532:  Publication of mathematician [[Federico Commandino (nonfiction)|Federico Commandino]]'s translation of [[Gnomon algorithm]] textbooks from Latin to Arabic.
||1679 – Jacques de Billy, French mathematician and academic (b. 1602)
||1742 – Edmond Halley, English astronomer, geophysicist, mathematician, meteorologist, and physicist (b. 1656)
||1858 – Napoleon III of France escapes an assassination attempt.


File:Ingres self-portrait.jpg|link=Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres (nonfiction)|1867: Artist [[Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres (nonfiction)|Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres]] dies. He assumed the role of a guardian of academic orthodoxy against the ascendant Romantic style represented by his nemesis, Eugène Delacroix.
File:Ingres self-portrait.jpg|link=Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres (nonfiction)|1867: Artist [[Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres (nonfiction)|Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres]] dies. He assumed the role of a guardian of academic orthodoxy against the ascendant Romantic style represented by his nemesis, Eugène Delacroix.
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File:Edward Lear.jpg|link=Edward Lear (nonfiction)|1888: Artist, musician, author, and poet [[Edward Lear (nonfiction)|Edward Lear]] invents record number of witticisms.
File:Edward Lear.jpg|link=Edward Lear (nonfiction)|1888: Artist, musician, author, and poet [[Edward Lear (nonfiction)|Edward Lear]] invents record number of witticisms.
||1683 – Gottfried Silbermann, German instrument maker (d. 1753)
||1684 – Johann Matthias Hase, German mathematician, astronomer, and cartographer (d. 1742)
||1806 – Matthew Fontaine Maury American astronomer, oceanographer, and historian (d. 1873)
||1875 – Albert Schweitzer, French-Gabonese physician and philosopher, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1965)
||1887 – Hugo Steinhaus, Polish mathematician and academic (d. 1972)


File:Lewis Carroll.jpg|link=Lewis Carroll (nonfiction)|1898: Novelist, poet, and mathematician [[Lewis Carroll (nonfiction)|Lewis Carroll]] dies. He wrote ''Alice's Adventures in Wonderland'', and its sequel ''Through the Looking-Glass''.
File:Lewis Carroll.jpg|link=Lewis Carroll (nonfiction)|1898: Novelist, poet, and mathematician [[Lewis Carroll (nonfiction)|Lewis Carroll]] dies. He wrote ''Alice's Adventures in Wonderland'', and its sequel ''Through the Looking-Glass''.
||1901 – Alfred Tarski, Polish-American mathematician and philosopher (d. 1983)


File:Charles Hermite circa 1901.jpg|link=Charles Hermite (nonfiction)|1901: Mathematician [[Charles Hermite (nonfiction)|Charles Hermite]] dies. He did research on number theory, quadratic forms, invariant theory, orthogonal polynomials, elliptic functions, and algebra.
File:Charles Hermite circa 1901.jpg|link=Charles Hermite (nonfiction)|1901: Mathematician [[Charles Hermite (nonfiction)|Charles Hermite]] dies. He did research on number theory, quadratic forms, invariant theory, orthogonal polynomials, elliptic functions, and algebra.
||1905 – Ernst Abbe, German physicist and engineer (b. 1840)
||1937 – Leo Kadanoff, American physicist and academic (d. 2015)
||1943 – World War II: Franklin D. Roosevelt becomes the first President of the United States to travel by airplane while in office when he travels from Miami to Morocco to meet with Winston Churchill.
||1966 – Sergei Korolev, Ukrainian-Russian engineer and academic (b. 1906)
||1967 – Counterculture of the 1960s: The Human Be-In takes place in San Francisco, California's Golden Gate Park, launching the Summer of Love.
||1970 – William Feller, Croatian-American mathematician and academic (b. 1906)
||1973 – Elvis Presley's concert Aloha from Hawaii is broadcast live via satellite, and sets the record as the most watched broadcast by an individual entertainer in television history.
||1978 – Kurt Gödel, Austrian-American mathematician and philosopher (b. 1906)
||2014 – Milutin Dostanić, Serbian mathematician and academic (b. 1958)


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  • 1867: Artist Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres dies. He assumed the role of a guardian of academic orthodoxy against the ascendant Romantic style represented by his nemesis, Eugène Delacroix.

    1867: Artist Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres dies. He assumed the role of a guardian of academic orthodoxy against the ascendant Romantic style represented by his nemesis, Eugène Delacroix.

  • 1874: Scientist and inventor Johann Philipp Reis dies. He invented the Reis Telephone.

    1874: Scientist and inventor Johann Philipp Reis dies. He invented the Reis Telephone.

  • 1888: Artist, musician, author, and poet Edward Lear invents record number of witticisms.

    1888: Artist, musician, author, and poet Edward Lear invents record number of witticisms.

  • 1898: Novelist, poet, and mathematician Lewis Carroll dies. He wrote Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, and its sequel Through the Looking-Glass.

    1898: Novelist, poet, and mathematician Lewis Carroll dies. He wrote Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, and its sequel Through the Looking-Glass.

  • 1901: Mathematician Charles Hermite dies. He did research on number theory, quadratic forms, invariant theory, orthogonal polynomials, elliptic functions, and algebra.

    1901: Mathematician Charles Hermite dies. He did research on number theory, quadratic forms, invariant theory, orthogonal polynomials, elliptic functions, and algebra.

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