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|File:John Pell.jpg|link=John Pell (nonfiction)|1637: Mathematician [[John Pell (nonfiction)|John Pell]] invents new class of [[Gnomon algorithm functions]].
|File:John Pell.jpg|link=John Pell (nonfiction)|1637: Mathematician [[John Pell (nonfiction)|John Pell]] invents new class of [[Gnomon algorithm functions]].


||1567 François d'Aguilon, Belgian Jesuit mathematician (d. 1617)
||1567: François d'Aguilon born ... Jesuit mathematician (d. 1617) François d'Aguilon (also d'Aguillon or in Latin Franciscus Aguilonius) ... Jesuit mathematician, physicist and architect. Pic: book plate.


||1752 Gabriel Cramer, Swiss mathematician and physicist (b. 1704)
||1752: Gabriel Cramer dies ... mathematician and physicist.


||Captain François Mingaud (born 4 January 1771) was an infantry officer in the French army and a carom billiards player. He is credited as the inventor of the leather tip for a billiards cue, a "possibly not original idea" that he perfected while imprisoned in Bicêtre (now Bicêtre Hospital) for political outspokenness. This revolutionized the game of billiards, allowing the cue ball to be finely manipulated by the application of spin. Pic.
||1771: Captain François Mingaud born ... infantry officer in the French army and a carom billiards player. He is credited as the inventor of the leather tip for a billiards cue, a "possibly not original idea" that he perfected while imprisoned in Bicêtre (now Bicêtre Hospital) for political outspokenness. This revolutionized the game of billiards, allowing the cue ball to be finely manipulated by the application of spin. Pic.


||1809 Louis Braille, French educator, invented Braille (d. 1852)
||1809: Louis Braille born ... educator, invented Braille.


File:Samuel Colt.jpg|link=Samuel Colt (nonfiction)|1847: [[Samuel Colt (nonfiction)|Samuel Colt]] sells his first revolver pistol to the United States government.
File:Samuel Colt.jpg|link=Samuel Colt (nonfiction)|1847: [[Samuel Colt (nonfiction)|Samuel Colt]] sells his first revolver pistol to the United States government.


||1882 John William Draper, English-American physician, chemist, and photographer (b. 1811)
||1882: John William Draper dies ... physician, chemist, and photographer.


||Walther Ludwig Julius Kossel (b. 4 January 1888) was a German physicist known for his theory of the chemical bond (ionic bond/octet rule), Sommerfeld–Kossel displacement law of atomic spectra, the Kossel-Stranski model for crystal growth, and the Kossel effect.  
||1888: Walther Ludwig Julius Kossel born ... physicist known for his theory of the chemical bond (ionic bond/octet rule), Sommerfeld–Kossel displacement law of atomic spectra, the Kossel-Stranski model for crystal growth, and the Kossel effect.  


||1895 Leroy Grumman, American engineer and businessman, co-founded Grumman Aeronautical Engineering Co. (d. 1982)
||1895: Leroy Grumman born ... engineer and businessman, co-founded Grumman Aeronautical Engineering Co.


File:Electrocuting_an_Elephant.png|link=Electrocuting an Elephant (nonfiction)|1903: Topsy, an elephant, is electrocuted by the owners of Luna Park, Coney Island. The event is documented in the film ''[[Electrocuting an Elephant (nonfiction)|Electrocuting an Elephant]]''.
File:Electrocuting_an_Elephant.png|link=Electrocuting an Elephant (nonfiction)|1903: Topsy, an elephant, is electrocuted by the owners of Luna Park, Coney Island. The event is documented in the film ''[[Electrocuting an Elephant (nonfiction)|Electrocuting an Elephant]]''.

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