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||1561 – Santorio Santorio, Italian biologist (d. 1636)
||1561: Santorio Santorio born ... biologist.


File:Emanuel Swedenborg.png|link=Emanuel Swedenborg (nonfiction)|1772: Astronomer, philosopher, theologian, and mystic [[Emanuel Swedenborg (nonfiction)|Emanuel Swedenborg]] dies.
File:Emanuel Swedenborg.png|link=Emanuel Swedenborg (nonfiction)|1772: Astronomer, philosopher, theologian, and mystic [[Emanuel Swedenborg (nonfiction)|Emanuel Swedenborg]] dies.
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File:Jørgen Jørgensen (Eckersberg).jpg|link=Jørgen Jørgensen (nonfiction)|1780: Adventurer [[Jørgen Jørgensen (nonfiction)|Jørgen Jørgensen]] born. He will sail to Iceland, declaring the country independent from Denmark and pronouncing himself its ruler, intending to found a new republic following the United States of America and France.
File:Jørgen Jørgensen (Eckersberg).jpg|link=Jørgen Jørgensen (nonfiction)|1780: Adventurer [[Jørgen Jørgensen (nonfiction)|Jørgen Jørgensen]] born. He will sail to Iceland, declaring the country independent from Denmark and pronouncing himself its ruler, intending to found a new republic following the United States of America and France.


||1824 – Ludwig Büchner, German physiologist, physician, and philosopher (d. 1899)
||1824: Ludwig Büchner born ... physiologist, physician, and philosopher.


||The Blessed Francesco Faà di Bruno (b. 29 March 1825) was an Italian priest and advocate of the poor, a leading mathematician of his era and a noted religious musician. In 1988 he was beatified by Pope John Paul II. He is the eponym of Faà di Bruno's formula. Pic.
||1825: The Blessed Francesco Faà di Bruno born ... priest and advocate of the poor, a leading mathematician of his era and a noted religious musician. In 1988 he was beatified by Pope John Paul II. He is the eponym of Faà di Bruno's formula. Pic.


||Désiré André (b. March 29, 1840) was a French mathematician, best known for his work on Catalan numbers and alternating permutations.
||1840: Désiré André born ... mathematician, best known for his work on Catalan numbers and alternating permutations.


File:Niles Cartouchian 2.jpg|link=Niles Cartouchian (1900s)|1872: Mathematician, crime-fighter, and alleged time-traveller [[Niles Cartouchian (1900s)|Niles Cartouchian]] uses [[Time crystal (nonfiction)|time crystals (nonfiction)]] to track down and delete the criminal artificial intelligence [[Killer Poke]].
File:Niles Cartouchian 2.jpg|link=Niles Cartouchian (1900s)|1872: Mathematician, crime-fighter, and alleged time-traveller [[Niles Cartouchian (1900s)|Niles Cartouchian]] uses [[Time crystal (nonfiction)|time crystals (nonfiction)]] to track down and delete the criminal artificial intelligence [[Killer Poke]].
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File:Tullio Levi-civita.jpg|link=Tullio Levi-Civita (nonfiction)|1873: Mathematician and academic [[Tullio Levi-Civita (nonfiction)|Tullio Levi-Civita]] born. He will gain fame for his work on absolute differential calculus (tensor calculus) and its applications to the theory of relativity, and make significant contributions in other areas.
File:Tullio Levi-civita.jpg|link=Tullio Levi-Civita (nonfiction)|1873: Mathematician and academic [[Tullio Levi-Civita (nonfiction)|Tullio Levi-Civita]] born. He will gain fame for his work on absolute differential calculus (tensor calculus) and its applications to the theory of relativity, and make significant contributions in other areas.


||1873 – Francesco Zantedeschi, Italian priest and physicist (b. 1797)
||1873: Francesco Zantedeschi dies ... priest and physicist.


File:Grigori Rasputin 1916.jpg|link=Grigori Rasputin (nonfiction)|1874: Mystic, faith healer, and alleged time-traveller [[Grigori Rasputin (nonfiction)|Grigori Rasputin]] accused of [[crimes against mathematical constants]].
File:Grigori Rasputin 1916.jpg|link=Grigori Rasputin (nonfiction)|1874: Mystic, faith healer, and alleged time-traveller [[Grigori Rasputin (nonfiction)|Grigori Rasputin]] accused of [[crimes against mathematical constants]].


||1888 – Enea Bossi, Sr., Italian-American engineer, designed the Budd BB-1 Pioneer and Bossi-Bonomi Pedaliante (d. 1963)
||1888: Enea Bossi, Sr. born ... engineer, designed the Budd BB-1 Pioneer and Bossi-Bonomi Pedaliante.


||Eduard Rüchardt (b. March 29, 1888) was a German physicist. In modern times Rüchardt is mainly noted for the experiment named after him. However, Rüchardt's chief topic was the study of canal rays.
||1888: Eduard Rüchardt born ... physicist. In modern times Rüchardt is mainly noted for the experiment named after him. However, Rüchardt's chief topic was the study of canal rays.


||Lavrentiy Pavlovich Beria (b. 29 March 1899) was a Soviet politician of Georgian ethnicity, Marshal of the Soviet Union and state security administrator, chief of the Soviet security and secret police apparatus (NKVD) under Joseph Stalin during World War II.
||1899: Lavrentiy Pavlovich Beria born ... politician of Georgian ethnicity, Marshal of the Soviet Union and state security administrator, chief of the Soviet security and secret police apparatus (NKVD) under Joseph Stalin during World War II.


||1895 – Ernst Jünger, German philosopher and author (d. 1998)
||1895: Ernst Jünger born ... philosopher and author.


File:Wilhelm Ackermann.jpg|link=Wilhelm Ackermann (nonfiction)|1896: Mathematician [[Wilhelm Ackermann (nonfiction)|Wilhelm Ackermann]] born.  He will discover the Ackermann function, an important example in the theory of computation.
File:Wilhelm Ackermann.jpg|link=Wilhelm Ackermann (nonfiction)|1896: Mathematician [[Wilhelm Ackermann (nonfiction)|Wilhelm Ackermann]] born.  He will discover the Ackermann function, an important example in the theory of computation.


||1912 – Hanna Reitsch, Polish-German soldier and pilot (d. 1979)
||1912: Hanna Reitsch born ... soldier and pilot.


||Leonard Isaac Schiff was born in Fall River, Massachusetts on d. March 29, 1915 - He was a physicist best known for his book Quantum Mechanics.
||1915: Leonard Isaac Schiff dies ... physicist best known for his book Quantum Mechanics.


||1918 – Lê Văn Thiêm, Vietnamese mathematician and academic (d. 1991)
||1918: Lê Văn Thiêm born ... mathematician and academic.


||1927 – John Vane, English pharmacologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2004)
||1927: John Vane born ... pharmacologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate.


||1944: Mathematician Grace Chisholm Young dies.
||1944: Mathematician Grace Chisholm Young dies.
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File:Mariner 10 diagram.jpg|link=Mariner 10 (nonfiction)|1974: NASA's [[Mariner 10 (nonfiction)|Mariner 10]] becomes the first space probe to fly by Mercury.
File:Mariner 10 diagram.jpg|link=Mariner 10 (nonfiction)|1974: NASA's [[Mariner 10 (nonfiction)|Mariner 10]] becomes the first space probe to fly by Mercury.


||Jean Louis Maxime van Heijenoort (d. March 29, 1986) was a pioneer historian of mathematical logic. He was also a personal secretary to Leon Trotsky from 1932 to 1939, and from then until 1947, an American Trotskyist activist. Pic.
||1986: Jean Louis Maxime van Heijenoort dies ... pioneer historian of mathematical logic. He was also a personal secretary to Leon Trotsky from 1932 to 1939, and from then until 1947, an American Trotskyist activist. Pic.


||2003 – Carlo Urbani, Italian physician and microbiologist (b. 1956) died SARS
||2003: Carlo Urbani dies ... physician and microbiologist ... died SARS.


||Alexei Alexeyevich Abrikosov (d. 29 March 2017) was a Soviet, Russian and American theoretical physicist whose main contributions are in the field of condensed matter physics.  He was the co-recipient of the 2003 Nobel Prize in Physics, with Vitaly Ginzburg and Anthony James Leggett, for theories about how matter can behave at extremely low temperatures.  Pic.
||2017: Alexei Alexeyevich Abrikosov dies ... theoretical physicist whose main contributions are in the field of condensed matter physics.  He was the co-recipient of the 2003 Nobel Prize in Physics, with Vitaly Ginzburg and Anthony James Leggett, for theories about how matter can behave at extremely low temperatures.  Pic.
 
File:Stardust.jpg|link=Stardust (image) (nonfiction)|2016: Steganographic analysis of ''[[Stardust (image) (nonfiction)|Stardust]]'' unexpectedly reveals "about eight hundred kilobytes" of previously unknown [[Gnomon algorithm]] functions.


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