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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)
||1522: Lodovico Ferrari born ... mathematician and academic.


||1551 – Nicolaus Reimers, German astronomer (d. 1600)
||1551: Nicolaus Reimers born ... astronomer.


||1695 – William Borlase, English geologist and archaeologist (d. 1772)
||1695: William Borlase born ... geologist and archaeologist.


||1704 – Guillaume de l'Hôpital, French mathematician and academic (b. 1661)
||1704: Guillaume de l'Hôpital dies ... mathematician and academic.


||1709 – Alexander Selkirk is rescued after being shipwrecked on a desert island, inspiring Daniel Defoe's adventure book Robinson Crusoe.
||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)
||1712: Martin Lister dies ... physician and geologist.


||1723 – Antonio Maria Valsalva, Italian anatomist and physician (b. 1666)
||1723: Antonio Maria Valsalva dies ... anatomist and physician.


||1768 – Robert Smith, English mathematician and theorist (b. 1689)
||1768: Robert Smith dies ... mathematician and theorist.


File:Charles Camus - Cours de mathématique.jpg|link=Charles Étienne Louis Camus (nonfiction)|1768: Mathematician and mechanician [[Charles Étienne Louis Camus (nonfiction)|Charles Étienne Louis Camus]] dies. He was the author of ''Cours de mathématiques'' (Paris, 1766), along with a number of essays on mathematical and mechanical subjects.
File:Charles Camus - Cours de mathématique.jpg|link=Charles Étienne Louis Camus (nonfiction)|1768: Mathematician and mechanician [[Charles Étienne Louis Camus (nonfiction)|Charles Étienne Louis Camus]] dies. He was the author of ''Cours de mathématiques'' (Paris, 1766), along with a number of essays on mathematical and mechanical subjects.
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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.


||William Hopkins FRS (2 February 1793 – 13 October 1866) was an English mathematician and geologist. He made important contributions in asserting a solid, rather than fluid, interior for the Earth and explaining many geological phenomena in terms of his model. However, though his conclusions proved to be correct, his mathematical and physical reasoning were subsequently seen as unsound.
||1793: William Hopkins born ... mathematician and geologist. He made important contributions in asserting a solid, rather than fluid, interior for the Earth and explaining many geological phenomena in terms of his model. However, though his conclusions proved to be correct, his mathematical and physical reasoning were subsequently seen as unsound. Pic.


||1802 – Jean-Baptiste Boussingault, French chemist and academic (d. 1887)
||1802: Jean-Baptiste Boussingault born ... chemist and academic.


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)
||1842: Julian Sochocki born ... mathematician and academic.


||Leopold Bernhard Gegenbauer (b. 2 February 1849) was an Austrian mathematician remembered best as an algebraist. Gegenbauer polynomials are named after him. Pic.
||1849: Leopold Bernhard Gegenbauer born ... mathematician remembered best as an algebraist. Gegenbauer polynomials are named after him. Pic.


|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.
||1881: Gustav Herglotz born ... mathematician. He is best known for his works on the theory of relativity and seismology.
 
||Gustav Herglotz (b. 2 February 1881) was a German Bohemian mathematician. He is best known for his works on the theory of relativity and seismology.


File:Joseph Wedderburn.jpg|link=Joseph Wedderburn (nonfiction)|1882: Mathematician [[Joseph Wedderburn (nonfiction)|Joseph Wedderburn]] born. He will make significant contributions to algebra, proving that a finite division algebra is a field, and proving part of the Artin–Wedderburn theorem on simple algebras. Returning to Scotland in 1905, Wedderburn worked for four years at the University of Edinburgh as an assistant to George Chrystal, who supervised his D.Sc, awarded in 1908 for a thesis titled On Hypercomplex Numbers. A significant algebraist, he proved that a finite division algebra is a field, and part of the Artin–Wedderburn theorem on simple algebras.
File:Joseph Wedderburn.jpg|link=Joseph Wedderburn (nonfiction)|1882: Mathematician [[Joseph Wedderburn (nonfiction)|Joseph Wedderburn]] born. He will make significant contributions to algebra, proving that a finite division algebra is a field, and proving part of the Artin–Wedderburn theorem on simple algebras. Returning to Scotland in 1905, Wedderburn worked for four years at the University of Edinburgh as an assistant to George Chrystal, who supervised his D.Sc, awarded in 1908 for a thesis titled On Hypercomplex Numbers. A significant algebraist, he proved that a finite division algebra is a field, and part of the Artin–Wedderburn theorem on simple algebras.


||1893 – Cornelius Lanczos, Hungarian mathematician and physicist (d. 1974)
||1893: Cornelius Lanczos born ... mathematician and physicist.


||Hendrik Anthony "Hans" Kramers (b. 2 February 1894) was a Dutch physicist who worked with Niels Bohr to understand how electromagnetic waves interact with matter.
||1894: Hendrik Anthony "Hans" Kramers born ... physicist who worked with Niels Bohr to understand how electromagnetic waves interact with matter.


||1896 – Kazimierz Kuratowski, Polish mathematician and logician (d. 1980)
||1896: Kazimierz Kuratowski born ... mathematician and logician.


||1897 – Gertrude Blanch, Russian-American mathematician (d. 1996)
||1897: Gertrude Blanch born ... mathematician.


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.


||Bartel Leendert van der Waerden (b. February 2, 1903) was a Dutch mathematician and historian of mathematics.
||1903: Bartel Leendert van der Waerden born ... mathematician and historian of mathematics.


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)
||1907: Dmitri Mendeleev dies ... chemist and academic.


File:Agner Krarup Erlang.jpg|link=Agner Krarup Erlang (nonfiction)|1908: Mathematician, engineer, and crime-fighter [[Agner Krarup Erlang (nonfiction)|Agner Krarup Erlang]] publishes new class of [[Gnomon algorithm functions]] which use telephone network analysis to detect and prevent [[crimes against mathematical constants]].
File:Agner Krarup Erlang.jpg|link=Agner Krarup Erlang (nonfiction)|1908: Mathematician, engineer, and crime-fighter [[Agner Krarup Erlang (nonfiction)|Agner Krarup Erlang]] publishes new class of [[Gnomon algorithm functions]] which use telephone network analysis to detect and prevent [[crimes against mathematical constants]].


||1913 – Gustaf de Laval, Swedish engineer (b. 1845)
||1913: Gustaf de Laval dies ... engineer.


||Herman Feshbach (b. February 2, 1917) was an American physicist. He was an Institute Professor Emeritus of physics at MIT. Feshbach is best known for Feshbach resonance and for writing, with Philip M. Morse, Methods of Theoretical Physics.
||1917: Herman Feshbach born ... physicist. He was an Institute Professor Emeritus of physics at MIT. Feshbach is best known for Feshbach resonance and for writing, with Philip M. Morse, Methods of Theoretical Physics.


||1922 – Ulysses by James Joyce is published.
||1922: Ulysses by James Joyce is published.


||1925 – Serum run to Nome: Dog sleds reach Nome, Alaska with diphtheria serum, inspiring the Iditarod race.
||1925: Serum run to Nome: Dog sleds reach Nome, Alaska with diphtheria serum, inspiring the Iditarod race.


||Felix Arnold Edward Pirani (b. February 2, 1928) was a British theoretical physicist specializing in gravitational physics and general relativity. Pirani and Herman Bondi wrote a series of articles (1959 to 1989) that established the existence of plane wave solutions for gravitational waves based on general relativity.
||1928: Felix Arnold Edward Pirani born ... theoretical physicist specializing in gravitational physics and general relativity. Pirani and Herman Bondi wrote a series of articles (1959 to 1989) that established the existence of plane wave solutions for gravitational waves based on general relativity.


||John Henry Holland (b. February 2, 1929) was an American scientist and Professor of psychology and Professor of electrical engineering and computer science at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. He was a pioneer in what became known as genetic algorithms. Pic.
||1929: John Henry Holland born ... scientist and Professor of psychology and Professor of electrical engineering and computer science at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. He was a pioneer in what became known as genetic algorithms. Pic.


||Jean-Louis Verdier (b. 2 February 1935) was a French mathematician who worked, under the guidance of Alexander Grothendieck, on derived categories and Verdier duality. Pic.
||1935: Jean-Louis Verdier born ... mathematician who worked, under the guidance of Alexander Grothendieck, on derived categories and Verdier duality. Pic.


||1935 – Leonarde Keeler administers polygraph tests to two murder suspects, the first time polygraph evidence was admitted in U.S. courts.
||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)
||1957: Grigory Landsberg dies ... physicist and academic.


||1962 – Shlomo Hestrin, Canadian-Israeli biochemist and academic (b. 1914)
||1962: Shlomo Hestrindies dies ... biochemist and academic.


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.
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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)
||1980: William Howard Stein dies ... biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate.
 
||1996: Otis Ray McIntire born ... engineer. After graduating from the University of Kansas with a BSc degree in engineering in 1940, he went to work as a research engineer for The Dow Chemical Company. During World War II, when rubber was in short supply, McIntire's work focused on developing a rubber-like substance that could be used as a flexible insulator. In an experiment, in which he combined styrene with isobutylene, he created a unique material that was solid yet flexible due to the tiny bubbles formed by isobutylene within the styrene. McIntire had invented foam polystyrene, more commonly known by its brand name, Styrofoam Pic: https://www.geni.com/people/Otis-Mac-McIntire/335726453760006055


||Gertrude Scharff Goldhaber (d. February 2, 1998) was a German-born Jewish-American nuclear physicist. Goldhaber studied neutron-proton and neutron-nucleus reaction cross sections in 1941, and gamma radiation emission and absorption by nuclei in 1942. Around this time she also observed that spontaneous nuclear fission is accompanied by the release of neutrons — a result that had been theorized earlier but had yet to be shown. Pic.
||1998: Gertrude Scharff Goldhaber dies ... nuclear physicist. Goldhaber studied neutron-proton and neutron-nucleus reaction cross sections in 1941, and gamma radiation emission and absorption by nuclei in 1942. Around this time she also observed that spontaneous nuclear fission is accompanied by the release of neutrons — a result that had been theorized earlier but had yet to be shown. Pic.


||Joshua Lederberg (d. February 2, 2008) was an American molecular biologist known for his work in microbial genetics, artificial intelligence, and the United States space program. He was 33 years old when he won the 1958 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for discovering that bacteria can mate and exchange genes (bacterial conjugation). Pic.
||2008: Joshua Lederberg dies ... molecular biologist known for his work in microbial genetics, artificial intelligence, and the United States space program. He was 33 years old when he won the 1958 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for discovering that bacteria can mate and exchange genes (bacterial conjugation). Pic.


File:Bertram Kostant.jpg|link=Bertram Kostant (nonfiction)|2017: Mathematician [[Bertram Kostant (nonfiction)|Bertram Kostant]] dies. He was one of the principal developers of the theory of geometric quantization.
File:Bertram Kostant.jpg|link=Bertram Kostant (nonfiction)|2017: Mathematician [[Bertram Kostant (nonfiction)|Bertram Kostant]] dies. He was one of the principal developers of the theory of geometric quantization.


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  • 1768: Mathematician and mechanician Charles Étienne Louis Camus dies. He was the author of Cours de mathématiques (Paris, 1766), along with a number of essays on mathematical and mechanical subjects.

    1768: Mathematician and mechanician Charles Étienne Louis Camus dies. He was the author of Cours de mathématiques (Paris, 1766), along with a number of essays on mathematical and mechanical subjects.

  • 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.

  • 1882: Mathematician Joseph Wedderburn born. He will make significant contributions to algebra, proving that a finite division algebra is a field, and proving part of the Artin–Wedderburn theorem on simple algebras. Returning to Scotland in 1905, Wedderburn worked for four years at the University of Edinburgh as an assistant to George Chrystal, who supervised his D.Sc, awarded in 1908 for a thesis titled On Hypercomplex Numbers. A significant algebraist, he proved that a finite division algebra is a field, and part of the Artin–Wedderburn theorem on simple algebras.

    1882: Mathematician Joseph Wedderburn born. He will make significant contributions to algebra, proving that a finite division algebra is a field, and proving part of the Artin–Wedderburn theorem on simple algebras. Returning to Scotland in 1905, Wedderburn worked for four years at the University of Edinburgh as an assistant to George Chrystal, who supervised his D.Sc, awarded in 1908 for a thesis titled On Hypercomplex Numbers. A significant algebraist, he proved that a finite division algebra is a field, and part of the Artin–Wedderburn theorem on simple algebras.

  • 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.

  • 1908: Mathematician, engineer, and crime-fighter Agner Krarup Erlang publishes new class of Gnomon algorithm functions which use telephone network analysis to detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.

    1908: Mathematician, engineer, and crime-fighter Agner Krarup Erlang publishes new class of Gnomon algorithm functions which use telephone network analysis to detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.

  • 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.

  • 2017: Mathematician Bertram Kostant dies. He was one of the principal developers of the theory of geometric quantization.

    2017: Mathematician Bertram Kostant dies. He was one of the principal developers of the theory of geometric quantization.

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