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|File:Kells genealogy of Christ.jpg|link=Uncial script (nonfiction)|639: New version of [[Uncial script (nonfiction)|Uncial script]] includes [[Gnomon algorithm]] characters.


||1474 – Ali Qushji, Uzbek astronomer, mathematician, and physicist (b. 1403)
||1474: Ali Qushji dies ... astronomer, mathematician, and physicist.


||Erhard Weigel (b. December 16, 1625) was a German mathematician, astronomer and philosopher. He will work to make science more widely accessible to the public. Pic.
||1625: Erhard Weigel born ... mathematician, astronomer and philosopher. He will work to make science more widely accessible to the public. Pic.


File:Oliver Cromwell by Samuel Cooper.jpg|link=Oliver Cromwell (nonfiction)|1653: [[Oliver Cromwell (nonfiction)|Oliver Cromwell]] becomes Lord Protector of the Commonwealth of England, Scotland and Ireland.
File:Oliver Cromwell by Samuel Cooper.jpg|link=Oliver Cromwell (nonfiction)|1653: [[Oliver Cromwell (nonfiction)|Oliver Cromwell]] becomes Lord Protector of the Commonwealth of England, Scotland and Ireland.


||Roger Long (d. 16 December 1770) was an English astronomer
||1770: Roger Long dies ... astronomer


||1774 – François Quesnay, French economist, physician, and philosopher (b. 1694)
||1774: François Quesnay dies ... economist, physician, and philosopher.


||1776 – Johann Wilhelm Ritter, German chemist, physicist, and philosopher (d. 1810)
||1776: Johann Wilhelm Ritter born ... chemist, physicist, and philosopher.


||1804 – Viktor Bunyakovsky, Russian mathematician and academic (d. 1889)
||1804: Viktor Bunyakovsky born ... mathematician and academic.


||1809 – Antoine François, comte de Fourcroy, French chemist and entomologist (b. 1755)
||1809: Antoine François, comte de Fourcroy dies ... chemist and entomologist.


||Gyula Kőnig (b. 16 December 1849) was a Hungarian mathematician. Pic.
||1849: Gyula Kőnig dies ... mathematician. Pic.


||1869 – Bertha Lamme Feicht, American electrical engineer (d. 1943)
||1849: John Caldecott dies ...  East India Company commercial agent, meteorologist and astronomer who worked in the court of the Raja of Travancore at the Trivandrum Observatory. Pic: http://pazhayathu.blogspot.com/2012/05/john-caldecott-born-16-sept-1801-royal.html


||1882 – Walther Meissner, German physicist and engineer (d. 1974)
||1869: Bertha Lamme Feicht born ... electrical engineer.
 
||1882: Walther Meissner born ... physicist and engineer.


||Johann Karl August Radon (b. 16 December 1887) was an Austrian mathematician. He will make a number of contributions, including the Radon measure concept of measure as linear functional, and Radon's theorem that d + 2 points in d dimensions may always be partitioned into two subsets with intersecting convex hulls. Pic.
||Johann Karl August Radon (b. 16 December 1887) was an Austrian mathematician. He will make a number of contributions, including the Radon measure concept of measure as linear functional, and Radon's theorem that d + 2 points in d dimensions may always be partitioned into two subsets with intersecting convex hulls. Pic.
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File:Francis Galton 1850s.jpg|link=Francis Galton (nonfiction)|1887: Polymath and crime-fighter [[Francis Galton (nonfiction)|Francis Galton]] publishes new class of [[Gnomon algorithm functions]] which detect and prevent [[crimes against mathematical constants]].
File:Francis Galton 1850s.jpg|link=Francis Galton (nonfiction)|1887: Polymath and crime-fighter [[Francis Galton (nonfiction)|Francis Galton]] publishes new class of [[Gnomon algorithm functions]] which detect and prevent [[crimes against mathematical constants]].


||Gottfried Schapper (b. 16 December 1888) was a German listening specialist, before and during World War II. Gottfried Schapper, was an Signals intelligence officer, who was known for having the original idea for the Forschungsamt signal intelligence agency. Schapper had worked in the Reichswehr Ministry cipher bureau[1] from 1927 to 1933, which would later form part of Luftwaffe signals intelligence unit, had been dissatisfied by both the scope of monitoring and intercept work and the incompetence of the methods employed there. He along with some colleagues, including the convinced Nazi, Hans Schimpf, proposed to Hermann Göring that a separate signals office be created that would be free from department ties. Pic.
||Gottfried Schapper (b. 16 December 1888) was a German listening specialist, before and during World War II. Gottfried Schapper, was an Signals intelligence officer, who was known for having the original idea for the Forschungsamt signal intelligence agency. Schapper had worked in the Reichswehr Ministry cipher bureau from 1927 to 1933, which would later form part of Luftwaffe signals intelligence unit, had been dissatisfied by both the scope of monitoring and intercept work and the incompetence of the methods employed there. He along with some colleagues, including the convinced Nazi, Hans Schimpf, proposed to Hermann Göring that a separate signals office be created that would be free from department ties. Pic.
 
|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:Piet Hein and H.C. Andersen.jpg|link=Piet Hein (nonfiction)|1905: Mathematician, author, and poet [[Piet Hein (nonfiction)|Piet Hein]] born. He will propose the use of superellipses in architecture; superellipses will become the hallmark of modern Scandinavian architecture.
File:Piet Hein and H.C. Andersen.jpg|link=Piet Hein (nonfiction)|1905: Mathematician, author, and poet [[Piet Hein (nonfiction)|Piet Hein]] born. He will propose the use of superellipses in architecture; superellipses will become the hallmark of modern Scandinavian architecture.
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File:Point-contact transistor.png|link=Point-contact transistor (nonfiction)|1947: William Shockley, John Bardeen and Walter Brattain build the first practical [[Point-contact transistor (nonfiction)|point-contact transistor]].
File:Point-contact transistor.png|link=Point-contact transistor (nonfiction)|1947: William Shockley, John Bardeen and Walter Brattain build the first practical [[Point-contact transistor (nonfiction)|point-contact transistor]].


||Frederick George Donnan (d. 16 December 1956) was an Irish physical chemist who is known for his work on membrane equilibria, and commemorated in the Donnan equilibrium describing ionic transport in cells. Pic.
||1956: Frederick George Donnan dies ... physical chemist who is known for his work on membrane equilibria, and commemorated in the Donnan equilibrium describing ionic transport in cells. Pic.
 
|File:Gysin and Burroughs distill Extract of Radium.jpg|link=Extract of Radium|1967:[[Extract of Radium]] to party [[Edward Lear (nonfiction)|Edward Lear]].


File:Jekyll_Perfume.png|link=Jekyll (perfume)|1968: [[Jekyll (perfume)|Jekyll]], the "fragrance for sociopaths", announces record sales.
File:Jekyll_Perfume.png|link=Jekyll (perfume)|1968: [[Jekyll (perfume)|Jekyll]], the "fragrance for sociopaths", announces record sales.


||1985 – Paul Castellano and Thomas Bilotti are shot dead on the orders of John Gotti, who assumes leadership of New York's Gambino crime family.
||1985: Paul Castellano and Thomas Bilotti are shot dead on the orders of John Gotti, who assumes leadership of New York's Gambino crime family.


||2014 – Tim Cochran, American mathematician and academic (b. 1955)
||2014: Tim Cochran dies ... mathematician and academic.


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