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||1728: John Hunter born ... surgeon and anatomist. Pic.
||1728: John Hunter born ... surgeon and anatomist. Pic.


File:Rudjer Boskovic.jpg|link=Roger Joseph Boscovich (nonfiction)|1787: Polymath [[Roger Joseph Boscovich (nonfiction)|Roger Joseph Boscovich]] dies. He was a physicist, astronomer, mathematician, philosopher, diplomat, poet, theologian, and Jesuit priest.
File:Rudjer Boskovic.jpg|link=Roger Joseph Boscovich (nonfiction)|1787: Polymath [[Roger Joseph Boscovich (nonfiction)|Roger Joseph Boscovich]] dies. Boscovich was a physicist, astronomer, mathematician, philosopher, diplomat, poet, theologian, and Jesuit priest.


||1804: French Army officer and inventor Claude-Etienne Minié born.  He will gain fame for solving the problem of designing a reliable muzzle-loading rifle by inventing the Minié ball in 1846, and the Minié rifle in 1849.  Pic.
||1804: French Army officer and inventor Claude-Etienne Minié born.  He will gain fame for solving the problem of designing a reliable muzzle-loading rifle by inventing the Minié ball in 1846, and the Minié rifle in 1849.  Pic.


File:Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet.jpg|link=Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet (nonfiction)|1805: Mathematician [[Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet (nonfiction)|Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet]] born. He will important make contributions to number theory, analysis, and mechanics. Dirichlet will be one of the first mathematicians to give the modern formal definition of a function.
File:Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet.jpg|link=Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet (nonfiction)|1805: Mathematician [[Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet (nonfiction)|Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet]] born. Dirichlet will important make contributions to number theory, analysis, and mechanics. He will also be one of the first mathematicians to give the modern formal definition of a function.


||1852: John Louis Emil Dreyer born ... astronomer. Pic.
||1852: John Louis Emil Dreyer born ... astronomer. Pic.


File:Niles Cartouchian 2.jpg|link=Niles Cartouchian (1900s)|1835: Mathematician, scholar, and crime-fighter [[Niles Cartouchian (1900s)|Niles Cartouchian]] helps mathematician Peter Dirichlet break up [[math crime]] gang.
File:Niles Cartouchian 2.jpg|link=Niles Cartouchian (1900s)|1835: Mathematician, scholar, and crime-fighter [[Niles Cartouchian (1900s)|Niles Cartouchian]] helps mathematician Peter Dirichlet break up the [[Forbidden Ratio]] gang.


||1865: Dugald C. Jackson born ... electrical engineer. He received the IEEE Edison Medal for "outstanding and inspiring leadership in engineering education and in the field of generation and distribution of electric power". Pic.
||1865: Dugald C. Jackson born ... electrical engineer. He received the IEEE Edison Medal for "outstanding and inspiring leadership in engineering education and in the field of generation and distribution of electric power". Pic.

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