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||1866: Alexander von Nordmann dies ... biologist and paleontologist.
||1866: Alexander von Nordmann dies ... biologist and paleontologist.


||1868 – Carlo Matteucci, Italian physicist and neurophysiologist (b. 1811)
||1868: Carlo Matteucci dies ... physicist and neurophysiologist.


||1874 – Rose O'Neill, American cartoonist, illustrator, artist, and writer (d. 1944)
||1874: Rose O'Neill born ... cartoonist, illustrator, artist, and writer.


||1894 – Hermann Oberth, Romanian-German physicist and engineer (d. 1989)
||1894: Hermann Oberth born ... physicist and engineer.


||1894 – Marie François Sadi Carnot, French engineer and politician, 5th President of France (b. 1837)
||1894: Marie François Sadi Carnot dies ... engineer and politician, 5th President of France.


||Charles Romley Alder Wright FCS, FRS (d. 25 June 1894) was an English chemistry and physics researcher
||1894: Charles Romley Alder Wright dies ... chemistry and physics researcher


||1900 – The Taoist monk Wang Yuanlu discovers the Dunhuang manuscripts, a cache of ancient texts that are of great historical and religious significance, in the Mogao Caves of Dunhuang, China.
||1900: The Taoist monk Wang Yuanlu discovers the Dunhuang manuscripts, a cache of ancient texts that are of great historical and religious significance, in the Mogao Caves of Dunhuang, China.


||1905 – Rupert Wildt, German-American astronomer and academic (d. 1976)
||1905: Rupert Wildt, German-American astronomer and academic (d. 1976)


||1906 – Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania millionaire Harry Thaw shoots and kills prominent architect Stanford White.
||1906 – Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania millionaire Harry Thaw shoots and kills prominent architect Stanford White.
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||1960 – Two cryptographers working for the United States National Security Agency left for vacation to Mexico, and from there defected to the Soviet Union.
||1960 – Two cryptographers working for the United States National Security Agency left for vacation to Mexico, and from there defected to the Soviet Union.


||1971 – John Boyd Orr, 1st Baron Boyd-Orr, Scottish physician, biologist, and politician, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1880)
||1971: John Boyd Orr dies ... physician, biologist, and politician, Nobel Prize laureate.


||1974 – Cornelius Lanczos, Hungarian mathematician and physicist (b. 1893)
||1974: Cornelius Lanczos dies ... mathematician and physicist.


||1981 – Microsoft is restructured to become an incorporated business in its home state of Washington.
||1981: Microsoft is restructured to become an incorporated business in its home state of Washington.


||1984 – American singer Prince releases his most successful studio album Purple Rain.
||1984: American singer Prince releases his most successful studio album Purple Rain.


||1995 – Ernest Walton, Irish physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1903)
||1995: Ernest Walton dies ... physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate.


File:Mir.jpg|link=Mir (nonfiction)|1997: An unmanned Progress spacecraft collides with the [[Mir (nonfiction)|Russian space station Mir]].
File:Mir.jpg|link=Mir (nonfiction)|1997: An unmanned Progress spacecraft collides with the [[Mir (nonfiction)|Russian space station Mir]].


||2004 – Morton W. Coutts, New Zealand inventor (b. 1904)
||2004: Morton W. Coutts dies ... inventor.


||Irving Kaplansky (b. June 25, 2006) was a mathematician, college professor, author, and musician. Pic.
||2006: Irving Kaplansky born ... mathematician, college professor, author, and musician. Pic.


||2006: Basanti Dulal Nagchaudhuri born ... Indian physicist and academic, and a scientific advisor to the Government of India. He is known as one of the pioneers of nuclear physics in India and for building the nation's first cyclotron.  Nagchaudhuri also played an influential role in Smiling Buddha, India's first nuclear test. Pic: https://www.jnu.ac.in/content/nagchaudhuri-basanti-dulal
||2006: Basanti Dulal Nagchaudhuri dies ... Indian physicist and academic, and a scientific advisor to the Government of India. He is known as one of the pioneers of nuclear physics in India and for building the nation's first cyclotron.  Nagchaudhuri also played an influential role in Smiling Buddha, India's first nuclear test. Pic: https://www.jnu.ac.in/content/nagchaudhuri-basanti-dulal


File:Annie Easley.jpg|link=Annie Easley (nonfiction)|2011: Computer scientist, mathematician, and engineer [[Annie Easley (nonfiction)|Annie Easley]] dies. She was a leading member of the team which develops software for the Centaur rocket stage, and one of the first African-Americans to work as a computer scientist at NASA.
File:Annie Easley.jpg|link=Annie Easley (nonfiction)|2011: Computer scientist, mathematician, and engineer [[Annie Easley (nonfiction)|Annie Easley]] dies. She was a leading member of the team which develops software for the Centaur rocket stage, and one of the first African-Americans to work as a computer scientist at NASA.

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  • 1593: Physician and archaeologist Michele Mercati dies. He was one of the first scholars to recognize prehistoric stone tools as human-made rather than natural or mythologically created thunderstones.

    1593: Physician and archaeologist Michele Mercati dies. He was one of the first scholars to recognize prehistoric stone tools as human-made rather than natural or mythologically created thunderstones.

  • 1671: Priest and astromomer Giovanni Battista Riccioli dies. He experimented with pendulums and falling bodies, discussed arguments concerning the motion of the Earth, and introduced the current scheme of lunar nomenclature.

    1671: Priest and astromomer Giovanni Battista Riccioli dies. He experimented with pendulums and falling bodies, discussed arguments concerning the motion of the Earth, and introduced the current scheme of lunar nomenclature.

  • 1764: Mathematician Maria Gaetana Agnesi uses Gnomon algorithm techniques to detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.

    1764: Mathematician Maria Gaetana Agnesi uses Gnomon algorithm techniques to detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.

  • 1907: Nuclear physicist J. Hans D. Jensen born. He will share half of the 1963 Nobel Prize in Physics with Maria Goeppert-Mayer for their proposal of the nuclear shell model.

    1907: Nuclear physicist J. Hans D. Jensen born. He will share half of the 1963 Nobel Prize in Physics with Maria Goeppert-Mayer for their proposal of the nuclear shell model.

  • 1997: An unmanned Progress spacecraft collides with the Russian space station Mir.

    1997: An unmanned Progress spacecraft collides with the Russian space station Mir.

  • 2011: Computer scientist, mathematician, and engineer Annie Easley dies. She was a leading member of the team which develops software for the Centaur rocket stage, and one of the first African-Americans to work as a computer scientist at NASA.

    2011: Computer scientist, mathematician, and engineer Annie Easley dies. She was a leading member of the team which develops software for the Centaur rocket stage, and one of the first African-Americans to work as a computer scientist at NASA.

  • 2017: New computational analysis of The Eel Time-Surfing reveals previously unknown cache of steganographic data.

    2017: New computational analysis of The Eel Time-Surfing reveals previously unknown cache of steganographic data.

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