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||1533 – Paul Luther, German scientist (d. 1593)
File:Ludolf van Ceulen.jpg|link=Ludolph van Ceulen (nonfiction)|1540: Mathematician and fencer [[Ludolph van Ceulen (nonfiction)|Ludolph van Ceulen]] born. He will spend a major part of his life calculating the numerical value of the mathematical constant π.
File:Ludolf van Ceulen.jpg|link=Ludolph van Ceulen (nonfiction)|1540: Mathematician and fencer [[Ludolph van Ceulen (nonfiction)|Ludolph van Ceulen]] born. He will spend a major part of his life calculating the numerical value of the mathematical constant π.


||Giovanni Alfonso Borelli (b. 28 January 1608) was a Renaissance Italian physiologist, physicist, and mathematician. He contributed to the modern principle of scientific investigation by continuing Galileo's practice of testing hypotheses against observation.
||Giovanni Alfonso Borelli (b. 28 January 1608) was a Renaissance Italian physiologist, physicist, and mathematician. He contributed to the modern principle of scientific investigation by continuing Galileo's practice of testing hypotheses against observation.
||1611 – Johannes Hevelius, Polish astronomer and politician (d. 1687)
||1622 – Adrien Auzout, French astronomer and instrument maker (d. 1691)
||1687 – Johannes Hevelius, Polish astronomer and politician (b. 1611)
||1701 – Charles Marie de La Condamine, French mathematician and geographer (d. 1774)
||1864 – Émile Clapeyron, French physicist and engineer (b. 1799)


File:Nikolai Tesla 1896.jpg|link=Nikola Tesla (nonfiction)|1883: Electrical engineer [[Nikola Tesla (nonfiction)|Nikola Tesla]] invents method of converting alternating current (AC) into [[Gnomon algorithm functions]], revealing new techniques for preventing [[crimes against mathematical constants]].
File:Nikolai Tesla 1896.jpg|link=Nikola Tesla (nonfiction)|1883: Electrical engineer [[Nikola Tesla (nonfiction)|Nikola Tesla]] invents method of converting alternating current (AC) into [[Gnomon algorithm functions]], revealing new techniques for preventing [[crimes against mathematical constants]].
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File:Auguste Piccard.jpg|link=Auguste Piccard (nonfiction)|1884: Physicist and explorer [[Auguste Piccard (nonfiction)|Auguste Piccard]] born. He will make record-breaking hot air balloon flights, with which he will study Earth's upper atmosphere and cosmic rays, and invent of the first bathyscaphe.
File:Auguste Piccard.jpg|link=Auguste Piccard (nonfiction)|1884: Physicist and explorer [[Auguste Piccard (nonfiction)|Auguste Piccard]] born. He will make record-breaking hot air balloon flights, with which he will study Earth's upper atmosphere and cosmic rays, and invent of the first bathyscaphe.


File:Scrimshaw binge residue.jpg|link=Scrimshaw abuse|1921: [[Scrimshaw abuse]] correlates with rise in [[crimes against mathematical constants]].
||1886 – Hidetsugu Yagi, Japanese engineer and academic (d. 1976)
 
||Alfredo Capelli (d. 28 January 1910) was an Italian mathematician who discovered Capelli's identity.
 
File:Scrimshaw binge residue.jpg|link=Scrimshaw abuse|1910: [[Scrimshaw abuse]] correlates with rise in [[crimes against mathematical constants]].


File:Klaus Fuchs.jpg|link=Emil Julius Klaus Fuchs (nonfiction)|1911: Physicist [[Emil Julius Klaus Fuchs (nonfiction)|Emil Julius Klaus Fuchs]] dies. He was convicted of supplying information from the Manhattan Project to the Soviet Union during and shortly after the Second World War.
File:Klaus Fuchs.jpg|link=Emil Julius Klaus Fuchs (nonfiction)|1911: Physicist [[Emil Julius Klaus Fuchs (nonfiction)|Emil Julius Klaus Fuchs]] dies. He was convicted of supplying information from the Manhattan Project to the Soviet Union during and shortly after the Second World War.
||1922 – Robert W. Holley, American biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1993)
||1925 – Raja Ramanna, Indian physicist and politician (d. 2004)
||1932 – Japanese forces attack Shanghai.
||1945 – Maxwell Fuller, Australian chess player (d. 2013)


File:Nikolai Luzin stamp.jpg|link=Nikolai Luzin (nonfiction)|1950: Mathematician, theorist, and academic [[Nikolai Luzin (nonfiction)|Nikolai Luzin]] dies. He contributed to descriptive set theory and aspects of mathematical analysis with strong connections to point-set topology.
File:Nikolai Luzin stamp.jpg|link=Nikolai Luzin (nonfiction)|1950: Mathematician, theorist, and academic [[Nikolai Luzin (nonfiction)|Nikolai Luzin]] dies. He contributed to descriptive set theory and aspects of mathematical analysis with strong connections to point-set topology.
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File:Ranger 3-4-5 probe.jpg|link=Ranger 3 (nonfiction)|1962: [[Ranger 3 (nonfiction)|Ranger 3]] space probe misses the moon by 22,000 miles (35,400 km).
File:Ranger 3-4-5 probe.jpg|link=Ranger 3 (nonfiction)|1962: [[Ranger 3 (nonfiction)|Ranger 3]] space probe misses the moon by 22,000 miles (35,400 km).
||1986 – Space Shuttle program: STS-51-L mission: Space Shuttle Challenger explodes after liftoff, killing all seven astronauts on board.
||1993 – Helen Sawyer Hogg, Canadian astronomer and academic (b. 1905)


File:Diagramaceous soil bingo algorithm harvest.jpg|link=Diagramaceous soil|2002: Tokens harvested from [[Diagramaceous soil]] used to cure [[Capacitor plague (nonfiction)|capacitor plague]] for the first time.
File:Diagramaceous soil bingo algorithm harvest.jpg|link=Diagramaceous soil|2002: Tokens harvested from [[Diagramaceous soil]] used to cure [[Capacitor plague (nonfiction)|capacitor plague]] for the first time.
||2012 – Roman Juszkiewicz, Polish astronomer and astrophysicist (b. 1952)
||2015 – Yves Chauvin, French chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1930)
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  • 1540: Mathematician and fencer Ludolph van Ceulen born. He will spend a major part of his life calculating the numerical value of the mathematical constant π.

    1540: Mathematician and fencer Ludolph van Ceulen born. He will spend a major part of his life calculating the numerical value of the mathematical constant π.

  • 1883: Electrical engineer Nikola Tesla invents method of converting alternating current (AC) into Gnomon algorithm functions, revealing new techniques for preventing crimes against mathematical constants.

    1883: Electrical engineer Nikola Tesla invents method of converting alternating current (AC) into Gnomon algorithm functions, revealing new techniques for preventing crimes against mathematical constants.

  • 1884: Physicist and explorer Auguste Piccard born. He will make record-breaking hot air balloon flights, with which he will study Earth's upper atmosphere and cosmic rays, and invent of the first bathyscaphe.

    1884: Physicist and explorer Auguste Piccard born. He will make record-breaking hot air balloon flights, with which he will study Earth's upper atmosphere and cosmic rays, and invent of the first bathyscaphe.

  • 1911: Physicist Emil Julius Klaus Fuchs dies. He was convicted of supplying information from the Manhattan Project to the Soviet Union during and shortly after the Second World War.

    1911: Physicist Emil Julius Klaus Fuchs dies. He was convicted of supplying information from the Manhattan Project to the Soviet Union during and shortly after the Second World War.

  • 1950: Mathematician, theorist, and academic Nikolai Luzin dies. He contributed to descriptive set theory and aspects of mathematical analysis with strong connections to point-set topology.

    1950: Mathematician, theorist, and academic Nikolai Luzin dies. He contributed to descriptive set theory and aspects of mathematical analysis with strong connections to point-set topology.

  • 1961: Brainiac Explains lecture series spends ten weeks on New York Times bestseller list.

    1961: Brainiac Explains lecture series spends ten weeks on New York Times bestseller list.

  • 1962: Ranger 3 space probe misses the moon by 22,000 miles (35,400 km).

    1962: Ranger 3 space probe misses the moon by 22,000 miles (35,400 km).

  • 2002: Tokens harvested from Diagramaceous soil used to cure capacitor plague for the first time.

    2002: Tokens harvested from Diagramaceous soil used to cure capacitor plague for the first time.

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