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||1836: Alexander Mitscherlich born ... chemist and academic.
||1836: Alexander Mitscherlich born ... chemist and academic.


||1843 – Noah Webster, American lexicographer (b. 1758)
||1843: Noah Webster dies ... lexicographer.


||1858 – Carl Richard Nyberg, Swedish inventor and businessman, developed the blow torch (d. 1939)
||1858: Carl Richard Nyberg born ... inventor and businessman, developed the blow torch.


||1872 – Marian Smoluchowski, Polish physicist and mountaineer (d. 1917)
||1872: Marian Smoluchowski born ... physicist and mountaineer.


||1879 – Milutin Milanković, Serbian mathematician, astronomer, and geophysicist (d. 1958)
||1879: Milutin Milanković born ... mathematician, astronomer, and geophysicist.


||Wang Ganchang (b. May 28, 1907) was a Chinese nuclear physicist. He was one of the founding fathers of Chinese nuclear physics, cosmic rays and particle physics. Pic.
||1907: Wang Ganchang born ... nuclear physicist. He was one of the founding fathers of Chinese nuclear physics, cosmic rays and particle physics. Pic.


||Egbert Rudolf van Kampen (b. 28 May 1908) was a Dutch mathematician. He made important contributions to topology, especially to the study of fundamental groups. Pic.
||1908: Egbert Rudolf van Kampen born ... mathematician. He made important contributions to topology, especially to the study of fundamental groups. Pic.


||Alfred Otto Carl Nier (b. May 28, 1911) was an American physicist who pioneered the development of mass spectrometry. He was the first to use mass spectrometry to isolate uranium-235 which was used to demonstrate that 235U could undergo fission and developed the sector mass spectrometer configuration now known as Nier-Johnson geometry. Pic.
||1911: Alfred Otto Carl Nier born ... physicist who pioneered the development of mass spectrometry. He was the first to use mass spectrometry to isolate uranium-235 which was used to demonstrate that 235U could undergo fission and developed the sector mass spectrometer configuration now known as Nier-Johnson geometry. Pic.


||Paul-Émile Lecoq de Boisbaudran (d. 28 May 1912), was a French chemist known for his discoveries of the chemical elements gallium, samarium and dysprosium. Pic.
||1912: Paul-Émile Lecoq de Boisbaudran dies ... chemist known for his discoveries of the chemical elements gallium, samarium and dysprosium. Pic.


||1912 – Herman Johannes, Indonesian scientist, academic, and politician (d. 1992)
||1912: Herman Johannes born ... scientist, academic, and politician.


||1912 – Ruby Payne-Scott, Australian physicist and astronomer (d. 1981)
||1912: Ruby Payne-Scott born ... physicist and astronomer.


||Hans Julius Zassenhaus (b. 28 May 1912) was a German mathematician, known for work in many parts of abstract algebra, and as a pioneer of computer algebra.
||1912: Hans Julius Zassenhaus born ... mathematician, known for work in many parts of abstract algebra, and as a pioneer of computer algebra.


||1816: Joseph Pierre (Joe) LaSalle born ... mathematician specialising in dynamical systems and responsible for important contributions to stability theory, such as LaSalle's invariance principle which bears his name.
||1916: Joseph Pierre (Joe) LaSalle born ... mathematician specialising in dynamical systems and responsible for important contributions to stability theory, such as LaSalle's invariance principle which bears his name.


File:Alan Turing (1930s).jpg|link=Alan Turing (nonfiction)|1936: Computer scientist, mathematician, logician, cryptanalyst and theoretical biologist [[Alan Turing (nonfiction)|Alan Turing]] submits ''On Computable Numbers'' for publication.
File:Alan Turing (1930s).jpg|link=Alan Turing (nonfiction)|1936: Computer scientist, mathematician, logician, cryptanalyst and theoretical biologist [[Alan Turing (nonfiction)|Alan Turing]] submits ''On Computable Numbers'' for publication.


||1980: Rolf Nevanlinna dies ... mathematician and academic. Pic.
||1980: Rolf Nevanlinna dies ... mathematician and academic. Pic.
||1982: Carlo Miranda dies ... mathematician, working on mathematical analysis, theory of elliptic partial differential equations and complex analysis: he is known for giving the first proof of the Poincaré–Miranda theorem, for Miranda's theorem in complex analysis, and for writing an influential monograph in the theory of elliptic partial differential equations. Pic: http://matematica.unibocconi.it/autore/carlo-miranda


||1987: A West German pilot, Mathias Rust, who was 18 years old, evades Soviet Union air defenses and lands a private plane in the Red Square in Moscow, Russia. He is immediately detained and released on August 3, 1988.
||1987: A West German pilot, Mathias Rust, who was 18 years old, evades Soviet Union air defenses and lands a private plane in the Red Square in Moscow, Russia. He is immediately detained and released on August 3, 1988.

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