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File:Gnotilus-fighting-Heracles.jpg|link=Heracles (nonfiction)|525 BC: [[Heracles (nonfiction)|Heracles]] defends himself after sneak attack by supervillain [[Gnotilus]].
|File:Gnotilus-fighting-Heracles.jpg|link=Heracles (nonfiction)|525 BC: [[Heracles (nonfiction)|Heracles]] defends himself after sneak attack by supervillain [[Gnotilus]].
 
||1522 – Lodovico Ferrari, Italian mathematician and academic (d. 1565)
 
||1551 – Nicolaus Reimers, German astronomer (d. 1600)
 
||1695 – William Borlase, English geologist and archaeologist (d. 1772)
 
||1704 – Guillaume de l'Hôpital, French mathematician and academic (b. 1661)
 
||1709 – Alexander Selkirk is rescued after being shipwrecked on a desert island, inspiring Daniel Defoe's adventure book Robinson Crusoe.
 
||1712 – Martin Lister, English physician and geologist (b. 1639)
 
||1723 – Antonio Maria Valsalva, Italian anatomist and physician (b. 1666)
 
||1768 – Robert Smith, English mathematician and theorist (b. 1689)
 
File:Jacques Binet.jpg|link=Jacques Philippe Marie Binet (nonfiction)|1786: Mathematician, physicist, and astronomer [[Jacques Philippe Marie Binet (nonfiction)|Jacques Philippe Marie Binet]] born. He will make significant contributions to number theory, and the mathematical foundations of matrix algebra.
File:Jacques Binet.jpg|link=Jacques Philippe Marie Binet (nonfiction)|1786: Mathematician, physicist, and astronomer [[Jacques Philippe Marie Binet (nonfiction)|Jacques Philippe Marie Binet]] born. He will make significant contributions to number theory, and the mathematical foundations of matrix algebra.
||1802 – Jean-Baptiste Boussingault, French chemist and academic (d. 1887)


File:William Stanley.jpg|link=William Stanley (nonfiction)|1829: Inventor, engineer, and philanthropist [[William Stanley (nonfiction)|William Stanley]] born. He will design and manufacture precision drawing and mathematical instruments, as well as surveying instruments and telescopes.
File:William Stanley.jpg|link=William Stanley (nonfiction)|1829: Inventor, engineer, and philanthropist [[William Stanley (nonfiction)|William Stanley]] born. He will design and manufacture precision drawing and mathematical instruments, as well as surveying instruments and telescopes.
||1842 – Julian Sochocki, Polish-Russian mathematician and academic (d. 1927)


|File:Thomas Joannes Stieltjes.jpg|link=Thomas Joannes Stieltjes (nonfiction)|1876: Mathematician [[Thomas Joannes Stieltjes (nonfiction)|Thomas Joannes Stieltjes]] uses [[Gnomon algorithm]] to discover new class of continued fractions.
|File:Thomas Joannes Stieltjes.jpg|link=Thomas Joannes Stieltjes (nonfiction)|1876: Mathematician [[Thomas Joannes Stieltjes (nonfiction)|Thomas Joannes Stieltjes]] uses [[Gnomon algorithm]] to discover new class of continued fractions.
||1893 – Cornelius Lanczos, Hungarian mathematician and physicist (d. 1974)
||1896 – Kazimierz Kuratowski, Polish mathematician and logician (d. 1980)
||1897 – Gertrude Blanch, Russian-American mathematician (d. 1996)


File:Fightin' Bert Russell.jpg|link=Bertrand Russell|1900: [[Bertrand Russell|"Fightin'" Bert Russell]] agrees to fight three rounds of bare-knuckled boxing at World Peace Conference.
File:Fightin' Bert Russell.jpg|link=Bertrand Russell|1900: [[Bertrand Russell|"Fightin'" Bert Russell]] agrees to fight three rounds of bare-knuckled boxing at World Peace Conference.


File:Ayn Rand signature 1949.svg|link=Ayn Rand (nonfiction)|1905: Writer and philosopher [[Ayn Rand (nonfiction)|Ayn Rand]] born.
File:Ayn Rand signature 1949.svg|link=Ayn Rand (nonfiction)|1905: Writer and philosopher [[Ayn Rand (nonfiction)|Ayn Rand]] born.
||1907 – Dmitri Mendeleev, Russian chemist and academic (b. 1834)
||1913 – Gustaf de Laval, Swedish engineer (b. 1845)
||1922 – Ulysses by James Joyce is published.
||1925 – Serum run to Nome: Dog sleds reach Nome, Alaska with diphtheria serum, inspiring the Iditarod race.
||1929 – John Henry Holland, American computer scientist and academic (d. 2015)
||1935 – Leonarde Keeler administers polygraph tests to two murder suspects, the first time polygraph evidence was admitted in U.S. courts.


File:Constantin Carathéodory.jpg|link=Constantin Carathéodory (nonfiction)|1950: Mathematician and author [[Constantin Carathéodory (nonfiction)|Constantin Carathéodory]] dies. He pioneered the axiomatic formulation of thermodynamics along a purely geometrical approach.
File:Constantin Carathéodory.jpg|link=Constantin Carathéodory (nonfiction)|1950: Mathematician and author [[Constantin Carathéodory (nonfiction)|Constantin Carathéodory]] dies. He pioneered the axiomatic formulation of thermodynamics along a purely geometrical approach.
||1957 – Grigory Landsberg, Russian physicist and academic (b. 1890)
||1962 – Shlomo Hestrin, Canadian-Israeli biochemist and academic (b. 1914)


File:The Eel Escapes Hydrolab.jpg|link=The Eel Escapes Hydrolab|1969: New evidence suggests that ''[[The Eel Escapes Hydrolab]]'' is based on actual events.
File:The Eel Escapes Hydrolab.jpg|link=The Eel Escapes Hydrolab|1969: New evidence suggests that ''[[The Eel Escapes Hydrolab]]'' is based on actual events.
File:Bertrand Russell transparent bg.png|link=Bertrand Russell (nonfiction)|1970: Philosopher, logician, mathematician, historian, writer, social critic and political activist [[Bertrand Russell (nonfiction)|Bertrand Russell]] dies.
File:Bertrand Russell transparent bg.png|link=Bertrand Russell (nonfiction)|1970: Philosopher, logician, mathematician, historian, writer, social critic and political activist [[Bertrand Russell (nonfiction)|Bertrand Russell]] dies.
File:Imre Lakatos.jpg|link=Imre Lakatos (nonfiction)|1974: Mathematician, philosopher, and academic [[Imre Lakatos (nonfiction)|Imre Lakatos]] dies. He is known for his thesis of the fallibility of mathematics and its 'methodology of proofs and refutations' in its pre-axiomatic stages of development.
File:Imre Lakatos.jpg|link=Imre Lakatos (nonfiction)|1974: Mathematician, philosopher, and academic [[Imre Lakatos (nonfiction)|Imre Lakatos]] dies. He is known for his thesis of the fallibility of mathematics and its 'methodology of proofs and refutations' in its pre-axiomatic stages of development.
||1980 – William Howard Stein, American biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1911)


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  • 1786: Mathematician, physicist, and astronomer Jacques Philippe Marie Binet born. He will make significant contributions to number theory, and the mathematical foundations of matrix algebra.

    1786: Mathematician, physicist, and astronomer Jacques Philippe Marie Binet born. He will make significant contributions to number theory, and the mathematical foundations of matrix algebra.

  • 1829: Inventor, engineer, and philanthropist William Stanley born. He will design and manufacture precision drawing and mathematical instruments, as well as surveying instruments and telescopes.

    1829: Inventor, engineer, and philanthropist William Stanley born. He will design and manufacture precision drawing and mathematical instruments, as well as surveying instruments and telescopes.

  • 1900: "Fightin'" Bert Russell agrees to fight three rounds of bare-knuckled boxing at World Peace Conference.

    1900: "Fightin'" Bert Russell agrees to fight three rounds of bare-knuckled boxing at World Peace Conference.

  • 1905: Writer and philosopher Ayn Rand born.

    1905: Writer and philosopher Ayn Rand born.

  • 1950: Mathematician and author Constantin Carathéodory dies. He pioneered the axiomatic formulation of thermodynamics along a purely geometrical approach.

    1950: Mathematician and author Constantin Carathéodory dies. He pioneered the axiomatic formulation of thermodynamics along a purely geometrical approach.

  • 1969: New evidence suggests that The Eel Escapes Hydrolab is based on actual events.

    1969: New evidence suggests that The Eel Escapes Hydrolab is based on actual events.

  • 1970: Philosopher, logician, mathematician, historian, writer, social critic and political activist Bertrand Russell dies.

    1970: Philosopher, logician, mathematician, historian, writer, social critic and political activist Bertrand Russell dies.

  • 1974: Mathematician, philosopher, and academic Imre Lakatos dies. He is known for his thesis of the fallibility of mathematics and its 'methodology of proofs and refutations' in its pre-axiomatic stages of development.

    1974: Mathematician, philosopher, and academic Imre Lakatos dies. He is known for his thesis of the fallibility of mathematics and its 'methodology of proofs and refutations' in its pre-axiomatic stages of development.

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