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||1441 – Roger Bolingbroke, English cleric, astronomer, astrologer, magister and alleged necromancer | ||1441 – Roger Bolingbroke, English cleric, astronomer, astrologer, magister and alleged necromancer. No pic. | ||
||1571 – Hippolytus Guarinonius, Italian physician and polymath (d. 1654) | ||1571 – Hippolytus Guarinonius, Italian physician and polymath (d. 1654). Pic. | ||
||1647 – Pierre Bayle, French philosopher and author (d. 1706) | ||1647 – Pierre Bayle, French philosopher and author (d. 1706). Pic. | ||
File:Bartolomeu Lourenço de Gusmão.jpg|link=Bartolomeu de Gusmão (nonfiction)|1724: Inventor and priest [[Bartolomeu de Gusmão (nonfiction)|Bartolomeu de Gusmão]] dies. | File:Bartolomeu Lourenço de Gusmão.jpg|link=Bartolomeu de Gusmão (nonfiction)|1724: Inventor and priest [[Bartolomeu de Gusmão (nonfiction)|Bartolomeu de Gusmão]] dies. | ||
||1727 – Philibert Commerson, French physician and explorer (d. 1773) | ||1727 – Philibert Commerson, French physician and explorer (d. 1773). Pic. | ||
||1787 – Louis Daguerre, French physicist and photographer, developed the daguerreotype (d. 1851) | ||1787 – Louis Daguerre, French physicist and photographer, developed the daguerreotype (d. 1851). Pic. | ||
||1830 – Adam Weishaupt, German philosopher and academic, founded the Illuminati (b. 1748) | ||1830 – Adam Weishaupt, German philosopher and academic, founded the Illuminati (b. 1748). Pic. | ||
File:Johannes Bosscha.jpg|link=Johannes Bosscha (nonfiction)|1831: Physicist [[Johannes Bosscha (nonfiction)|Johannes Bosscha Jr.]] born. He will make important investigations on galvanic polarization and the rapidity of sound waves; he will be one of the first (1855) to suggest the possibility of sending two messages simultaneously over the same wire. | File:Johannes Bosscha.jpg|link=Johannes Bosscha (nonfiction)|1831: Physicist [[Johannes Bosscha (nonfiction)|Johannes Bosscha Jr.]] born. He will make important investigations on galvanic polarization and the rapidity of sound waves; he will be one of the first (1855) to suggest the possibility of sending two messages simultaneously over the same wire. | ||
||1839 – August Kundt, German physicist and educator (d. 1894) | ||1832: Baron Nils Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld ... Finnish baron, geologist, mineralogist and Arctic explorer. He was a member of the prominent Finland-Swedish Nordenskiöld family of scientists. Pic. | ||
||1839 – August Kundt, German physicist and educator (d. 1894). Pic. | |||
||Friedrich Heinrich Albert Wangerin (b. November 18, 1844) was a German mathematician. Pic. | ||Friedrich Heinrich Albert Wangerin (b. November 18, 1844) was a German mathematician. Pic. | ||
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1724: Inventor and priest Bartolomeu de Gusmão dies.
1831: Physicist Johannes Bosscha Jr. born. He will make important investigations on galvanic polarization and the rapidity of sound waves; he will be one of the first (1855) to suggest the possibility of sending two messages simultaneously over the same wire.
1866: Physicist and crime-fighter Georg Hermann Quincke uses the influence of electric forces upon the constants of different forms of matter to detect and prevent crimes against chemistry.
1959: Mathematician and academic Aleksandr Khinchin dies. He was one of the founders of modern probability theory.
1962: Physicist and philosopher Niels Bohr born. He will make foundational contributions to understanding atomic structure and quantum theory, for which he will receive the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1922.
2013: NASA launches the MAVEN probe to Mars.
2017: Dennis Paulson celebrates fourth anniversary of NASA launching the MAVEN probe to Mars.