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||1553 – Lucas Cranach the Elder, German painter and engraver (b. 1472)
||1553: Lucas Cranach the Elder dies ... painter and engraver.


File:Leonardo Draws Clock Head.jpg|link=Leonardo Draws Clock Head|1584: Famed illustration ''[[Leonardo Draws Clock Head]]'' is "a reasonably accurate depiction of events as I remember them", says artist, inventor, and math detective [[Leonardo da Vinci]].
File:Leonardo Draws Clock Head.jpg|link=Leonardo Draws Clock Head|1584: Famed illustration ''[[Leonardo Draws Clock Head]]'' is "a reasonably accurate depiction of events as I remember them", says artist, inventor, and math detective [[Leonardo da Vinci]].
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||1925: Mór Réthy (or Moritz Réthy) dies - mathematician.
||1925: Mór Réthy (or Moritz Réthy) dies - mathematician.


||William Sealy Gosset (d. 16 October 1937) was an English statistician. He published under the pen name Student, and developed the Student's t-distribution.
||1937: William Sealy Gosset dies ... statistician. He published under the pen name Student, and developed the Student's t-distribution.


||1964: With the success of the nuclear weapons test named "596", China became the world's fifth nuclear power. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/596_(nuclear_test)
||1964: With the success of the nuclear weapons test named "596", China became the world's fifth nuclear power. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/596_(nuclear_test)


||1968 – United States athletes Tommie Smith and John Carlos are kicked off the US team for participating in the 1968 Olympics Black Power salute.
||1968: United States athletes Tommie Smith and John Carlos are kicked off the US team for participating in the 1968 Olympics Black Power salute.


||Phyllis Nicolson (d. 6 October 1968) was a British mathematician most known for her work on the Crank–Nicolson scheme together with John Crank.
||1968: Phyllis Nicolson dies ... mathematician most known for her work on the Crank–Nicolson scheme together with John Crank.


||1970 – In response to the October Crisis terrorist kidnapping, Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau of Canada invokes the War Measures Act.
||1970: In response to the October Crisis terrorist kidnapping, Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau of Canada invokes the War Measures Act.


||Shoichi Sakata (d. 16 October 1970) was a Japanese physicist who was internationally known for theoretical work on the structure of the atom. He proposed the Sakata model, which was an early precursor to the quark model. After the end of World War II, he joined other physicists in campaigning for the peaceful uses of nuclear power.
||1970: Shoichi Sakata dies ... physicist who was internationally known for theoretical work on the structure of the atom. He proposed the Sakata model, which was an early precursor to the quark model. After the end of World War II, he joined other physicists in campaigning for the peaceful uses of nuclear power.


||1973 – Henry Kissinger and Lê Đức Thọ are awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
||1973: Henry Kissinger and Lê Đức Thọ are awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.


||Harish-Chandra FRS (d. 16 October 1983) was an Indian American mathematician and physicist who did fundamental work in representation theory, especially harmonic analysis on semisimple Lie groups.
||1983: Harish-Chandra dies ... mathematician and physicist who did fundamental work in representation theory, especially harmonic analysis on semisimple Lie groups.


||1998 – Jon Postel, American computer scientist and academic (b. 1943)
||1998: Jon Postel dies ... computer scientist and academic.


||2002 – Bibliotheca Alexandrina in the Egyptian city of Alexandria, a commemoration of the Library of Alexandria that was lost in antiquity, is officially inaugurated.
||2002: Bibliotheca Alexandrina in the Egyptian city of Alexandria, a commemoration of the Library of Alexandria that was lost in antiquity, is officially inaugurated.


||Leigh Van Valen (d. October 16, 2010) was an U.S. evolutionary biologist.
||2002: An international team led by Reinhard Genzel of the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics reported the observation of the motion of the star S2 near Sagittarius A* over a period of ten years. According to the team's analysis, the data ruled out the possibility that Sgr A* contains a cluster of dark stellar objects or a mass of degenerate fermions, strengthening the evidence for a massive black hole.


||2012 – The extrasolar planet Alpha Centauri Bb is discovered.
||2010: Leigh Van Valen dies ... evolutionary biologist.


||2012: The extrasolar planet Alpha Centauri Bb is discovered.


|File:Quaternion multiplication.jpg|link=Quaternion (nonfiction)|2017: [[Quaternion (nonfiction)|Quaternion multiplication table]] sells for six million dollars.
|File:Johannes Stöffler.jpg|link=Johannes Stöffler (nonfiction)|1530: Mathematician [[Johannes Stöffler (nonfiction)|Johannes Stöffler]] tries [[Extract of Radium]] for the first time.
|File:Bartolomeu Lourenço de Gusmão.jpg|link=Bartolomeu de Gusmão (nonfiction)|1705: Inventor and priest [[Bartolomeu de Gusmão (nonfiction)|Bartolomeu de Gusmão]]'s uses [[Gnomon algorithm]] to communicate with [[Johannes Stöffler (nonfiction)|Johannes Stöffler]].
|File:Orgasmatron from Sleeper.png|link=Artificial hedonism (nonfiction)|1974: Tiny [[Spacecraft (nonfiction)|spacecraft]] with [[Artificial hedonism (nonfiction)|alien "Happy Ending" software]] converts human sweat into [[Extract of Radium]].
|File:Red-Limned Sea Quetzalcoatl.jpg|link=Sea Quetzalcoatl|1981: Red-limned [[Sea Quetzalcoatl]] disguises itself as Tree of Life.
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