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||1552 – Sebastian Münster, German cartographer and cosmographer (b. 1488)
||1552: Sebastian Münster dies ... cartographer and cosmographer.


File:Abraham de Moivre.jpg|link=Abraham de Moivre (nonfiction)|1667: Mathematician and theorist [[Abraham de Moivre (nonfiction)|Abraham de Moivre]] born. His book on probability theory, ''The Doctrine of Chances'', will be prized by gamblers.
File:Abraham de Moivre.jpg|link=Abraham de Moivre (nonfiction)|1667: Mathematician and theorist [[Abraham de Moivre (nonfiction)|Abraham de Moivre]] born. His book on probability theory, ''The Doctrine of Chances'', will be prized by gamblers.
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||1689: Lady Mary Wortley Montagu baptized ... was an English aristocrat, letter writer and poet. Lady Mary is today chiefly remembered for her letters, particularly her letters from travels to the Ottoman Empire, as wife to the British ambassador to Turkey, which have been described by Billie Melman as "the very first example of a secular work by a woman about the Muslim Orient". Aside from her writing, Lady Mary is also known for introducing and advocating for smallpox inoculation to Britain after her return from Turkey.  Pic.
||1689: Lady Mary Wortley Montagu baptized ... was an English aristocrat, letter writer and poet. Lady Mary is today chiefly remembered for her letters, particularly her letters from travels to the Ottoman Empire, as wife to the British ambassador to Turkey, which have been described by Billie Melman as "the very first example of a secular work by a woman about the Muslim Orient". Aside from her writing, Lady Mary is also known for introducing and advocating for smallpox inoculation to Britain after her return from Turkey.  Pic.


||Johann Heinrich Wilhelm Geißler (b. 26 May 1814) was a skilled glassblower and physicist, famous for his invention of the Geissler tube, made of glass and used as a low pressure gas-discharge tube.
||1814: Johann Heinrich Wilhelm Geißler born ... glassblower and physicist, famous for his invention of the Geissler tube, made of glass and used as a low pressure gas-discharge tube.


||Jean Alexander Heinrich Clapier de Colongue (b. 2 March 1838) was a Baltic German marine engineer and founder of a theory of magnetic deviation for magnetic compasses, living and working in Imperial Russia.  Pic.
||1838: Jean Alexander Heinrich Clapier de Colongue born ... marine engineer and founder of a theory of magnetic deviation for magnetic compasses, living and working in Imperial Russia.  Pic.


||Heinrich Biltz (b. May 26, 1865) was a German chemist and academic. Pic.
||1865: Heinrich Biltz born ... chemist and academic. Pic.


||Henri Farman (b. 26 May 1874) was an Anglo-French aviator and aircraft designer and manufacturer with his brother Maurice Farman.
||1874: Henri Farman born ... aviator and aircraft designer and manufacturer with his brother Maurice Farman.


||Roland Weitzenböck (b. 26 May 1885) was an Austrian mathematician working on differential geometry who introduced the Weitzenböck connection.  Pic.
||1885: Roland Weitzenböck born ... mathematician working on differential geometry who introduced the Weitzenböck connection.  Pic.


||1897 – Dracula, a novel by Irish author Bram Stoker, is published.
||1888: Ascanio Sobrero dies ... chemist. Ne discovered, in 1847, nitroglycerine. He initially called it "pyroglycerine", and warned vigorously against its use in his private letters and in a journal article, stating that it was extremely dangerous and impossible to handle.  Pic.
 
||1897: ''Dracula'', a novel by Irish author Bram Stoker, is published.


File:Didacus automaton profile.jpg|link=Didacus automaton (nonfiction)|2016: New autobiography by [[Didacus automaton (nonfiction)|Didacus automaton]] accuses [[Baron Zersetzung]] of [[crimes against mathematical constants]].
File:Didacus automaton profile.jpg|link=Didacus automaton (nonfiction)|2016: New autobiography by [[Didacus automaton (nonfiction)|Didacus automaton]] accuses [[Baron Zersetzung]] of [[crimes against mathematical constants]].
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File:Dorothea Lange 1936.jpg|link=Dorothea Lange (nonfiction)|1895: Documentary photography and photojournalist [[Dorothea Lange (nonfiction)|Dorothea Lange]] born.
File:Dorothea Lange 1936.jpg|link=Dorothea Lange (nonfiction)|1895: Documentary photography and photojournalist [[Dorothea Lange (nonfiction)|Dorothea Lange]] born.


||Jean Alexander Heinrich Clapier de Colongue (d. 26 May 1901) was a Baltic German marine engineer and founder of a theory of magnetic deviation for magnetic compasses, living and working in Imperial Russia.  Pic.
||1901: Jean Alexander Heinrich Clapier de Colongue dies ... marine engineer and founder of a theory of magnetic deviation for magnetic compasses, living and working in Imperial Russia.  Pic.


||1904 – Georges Gilles de la Tourette, French physician and neurologist (b. 1857)
||1904: Georges Gilles de la Tourette dies ... physician and neurologist.


||Frank Nelson Cole (d. May 26, 1926) was an American mathematician
||1926: Frank Nelson Cole dies ... mathematician.


||1929 – Hans Freeman, Australian bioinorganic chemist and protein crystallographer (d. 2008)
||1929: Hans Freeman born ... bioinorganic chemist and protein crystallographer.


File:Enrico Fermi 1943-49.jpg|link=Enrico Fermi (nonfiction)|1936: [[Enrico Fermi (nonfiction)|Enrico Fermi]] publishes new class of [[Gnomon algorithm functions]] which detect and prevent [[crimes against mathematical constants]].
File:Enrico Fermi 1943-49.jpg|link=Enrico Fermi (nonfiction)|1936: [[Enrico Fermi (nonfiction)|Enrico Fermi]] publishes new class of [[Gnomon algorithm functions]] which detect and prevent [[crimes against mathematical constants]].
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File:Chairman Dies of House Committee investigating Un-American activities.jpg|link=House Un-American Activities Committee (nonfiction)|1938: In the United States, the [[House Un-American Activities Committee (nonfiction)|House Un-American Activities Committee]] begins its first session.
File:Chairman Dies of House Committee investigating Un-American activities.jpg|link=House Un-American Activities Committee (nonfiction)|1938: In the United States, the [[House Un-American Activities Committee (nonfiction)|House Un-American Activities Committee]] begins its first session.


||1969 – Allan Haines Loughead, American engineer, co-founded the Lockheed Corporation (b. 1889)
||1969: Allan Haines Loughead dies ... engineer, co-founded the Lockheed Corporation.


||1969 – Apollo program: Apollo 10 returns to Earth after a successful eight-day test of all the components needed for the forthcoming first manned moon landing.
||1969: Apollo program: Apollo 10 returns to Earth after a successful eight-day test of all the components needed for the forthcoming first manned moon landing.


||1981 – Italian Prime Minister Arnaldo Forlani and his coalition cabinet resign following a scandal over membership of the pseudo-masonic lodge P2 (Propaganda Due).
||1981: Italian Prime Minister Arnaldo Forlani and his coalition cabinet resign following a scandal over membership of the pseudo-masonic lodge P2 (Propaganda Due).


||Sergey Vsevolodovich Yablonsky (d. 26 May 1998) was a Soviet and Russian mathematician, one of the founders of the Soviet school of mathematical cybernetics and discrete mathematics.  Pic.
||1998: Sergey Vsevolodovich Yablonsky dies ... mathematician, one of the founders of the Soviet school of mathematical cybernetics and discrete mathematics.  Pic.


||1999 – Waldo Semon, American chemist and engineer (b. 1898)
||1999: Waldo Semon dies ... chemist and engineer.


||2004 – Nikolai Chernykh, Russian astronomer (b. 1931)
||2004: Nikolai Chernykh dies ... astronomer.


||Alan Kotok (d. May 26, 2006) was an American computer scientist known for his work at Digital Equipment Corporation (Digital, or DEC) and at the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C).  Early hacker. Pic.
||2006: Alan Kotok dies ... computer scientist known for his work at Digital Equipment Corporation (Digital, or DEC) and at the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C).  Early hacker. Pic.


||2015 – Robert Kraft, American astronomer and academic (b. 1927)
||2015: Robert Kraft dies ... astronomer and academic.


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