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||121: Marcus Aurelius born ... Roman emperor. Pic.
||121: Marcus Aurelius born ... Roman emperor. Pic.


||1558: Jean Fernel dies ... physician ... introduced the term "physiology" to describe the study of the body's function.[3] He was the first person to describe the spinal canal. No DOB. Pic.
||1558: Jean Fernel dies ... physician ... introduced the term "physiology" to describe the study of the body's function. He was the first person to describe the spinal canal. No DOB. Pic.


File:Thomas Reid.jpg|link=Thomas Reid (nonfiction)|1710: Mathematician and philosopher [[Thomas Reid (nonfiction)|Thomas Reid]] born. Reid will argue that common sense (in a special philosophical sense of ''sensus communis'') is, or at least should be, at the foundation of all philosophical inquiry, justifying our belief that there is an external world.
File:Thomas Reid.jpg|link=Thomas Reid (nonfiction)|1710: Mathematician and philosopher [[Thomas Reid (nonfiction)|Thomas Reid]] born. Reid will argue that common sense (in a special philosophical sense of ''sensus communis'') is, or at least should be, at the foundation of all philosophical inquiry, justifying our belief that there is an external world.
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File:Edouard-Léon Scott de Martinville.jpg|link=Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville (nonfiction)|1879: Printer, bookseller, and inventor [[Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville (nonfiction)|Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville]] dies. He invented the phonoautograph, which records an audio signal as a photographic image.
File:Edouard-Léon Scott de Martinville.jpg|link=Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville (nonfiction)|1879: Printer, bookseller, and inventor [[Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville (nonfiction)|Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville]] dies. He invented the phonoautograph, which records an audio signal as a photographic image.
File:Clock Head 2.jpg|link=Clock Head 2|1878: Famed mechanical automaton [[Clock Head 2]] publishes new type of [[Gnomon algorithm]] function which detects and repels criminal mathematical functions, including [[Gnotilus]] and the [[Forbidden Ratio]].


File:Owen Richardson.jpg|link=Owen Willans Richardson (nonfiction)|1879: Physicist and academic [[Owen Willans Richardson (nonfiction)|Owen Willans Richardson]] born. He will win the 1928 Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on thermionic emission, which led to Richardson's law.
File:Owen Richardson.jpg|link=Owen Willans Richardson (nonfiction)|1879: Physicist and academic [[Owen Willans Richardson (nonfiction)|Owen Willans Richardson]] born. He will win the 1928 Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on thermionic emission, which led to Richardson's law.
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||1988: Guillermo Haro Barraza dies ... astronomer. Through his own astronomical research and the formation of new institutions, Haro was influential in the development of modern observational astronomy in Mexico. Internationally, he is best known for his contribution to the discovery of Herbig–Haro objects. Pic.
||1988: Guillermo Haro Barraza dies ... astronomer. Through his own astronomical research and the formation of new institutions, Haro was influential in the development of modern observational astronomy in Mexico. Internationally, he is best known for his contribution to the discovery of Herbig–Haro objects. Pic.


||1889: Ludwig Wittgenstein born ... philosopher and academic. He worked primarily in logic, the philosophy of mathematics, the philosophy of mind, and the philosophy of language.
||1889: Ludwig Wittgenstein born ... philosopher and academic. He worked primarily in logic, the philosophy of mathematics, the philosophy of mind, and the philosophy of language. Pic.


||1891: Naval engineer Gustave Zédé dies.  He was a pioneering designer of submarines. Pic.
||1891: Naval engineer Gustave Zédé dies.  He was a pioneering designer of submarines. Pic.
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||1921: Margaret Mary Gowing née Elliott born ... was an English historian. She was involved with the production of several volumes of the officially sponsored History of the Second World War, but was better known for her books, commissioned by the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority, covering the early history of Britain's nuclear weapons programs. Pic.
||1921: Margaret Mary Gowing née Elliott born ... was an English historian. She was involved with the production of several volumes of the officially sponsored History of the Second World War, but was better known for her books, commissioned by the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority, covering the early history of Britain's nuclear weapons programs. Pic.


||1924: Gyula Kosice born ... sculptor, plastic artist, and poet. He was one of the most important figures in kinetic and luminal art and luminance vanguard. Pic. IN CHRONICLES.
||1924: Gyula Kosice born ... sculptor, plastic artist, and poet. He was one of the most important figures in kinetic and luminal art and luminance vanguard. Pic. TO_DO: IN CHRONICLES.


||1927: Michel André Kervaire ... mathematician who made significant contributions to topology and algebra. He introduced the Kervaire semi-characteristic. Pic search yes: https://www.google.com/search?q=Michel+André+Kervaire
||1927: Michel André Kervaire ... mathematician who made significant contributions to topology and algebra. He introduced the Kervaire semi-characteristic. Pic search.


||1932: Michael Smith born ... biochemist and geneticist, Nobel Prize laureate.
||1932: Michael Smith born ... biochemist and geneticist, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic.


||1933: Arno Allan Penzias, German-American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
||1933: Arno Allan Penzias, German-American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. (Alive April 2020.)


||1933: The Gestapo, the official secret police force of Nazi Germany, is established.
||1933: The Gestapo, the official secret police force of Nazi Germany, is established.
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||1937: Spanish Civil War: Guernica, Spain, is bombed by German Luftwaffe.
||1937: Spanish Civil War: Guernica, Spain, is bombed by German Luftwaffe.


||1938: Leonid Plyushch dies ... mathematician, academic, dissident. Pic search yes: https://www.google.com/search?q=leonid+plyushch
||1938: Leonid Plyushch dies ... mathematician, academic, dissident. Pic.


||1940: Carl Bosch dies ... chemist and engineer, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic.
||1940: Carl Bosch dies ... chemist and engineer, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic.


||1945: Sigmund Rascher dies ... German physician - SS deadly experiments. Pic search yes: https://www.google.com/search?&q=sigmund+rascher
||1945: Sigmund Rascher dies ... German physician - SS deadly experiments. Pic search.


File:Vandal Savage Field Report Peenemunde.jpg|link=Field Report Number One (Peenemunde)|1945: ''[[Field Report Number One (Peenemunde)|Field Report Number One (Peenemunde edition)]]'' publishes new class of criminal mathematical functions which forecast the [[Chernobyl disaster (nonfiction)]] with 99.947% accuracy.
File:Vandal Savage Field Report Peenemunde.jpg|link=Field Report Number One (Peenemunde)|1945: ''[[Field Report Number One (Peenemunde)|Field Report Number One (Peenemunde edition)]]'' publishes new class of criminal mathematical functions which forecast the [[Chernobyl disaster (nonfiction)]] with 99.947% accuracy.
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||2006: Yuval Ne'eman dies ... theoretical physicist, military scientist, and politician. He was Minister of Science and Development in the 1980s and early 1990s. Pic.
||2006: Yuval Ne'eman dies ... theoretical physicist, military scientist, and politician. He was Minister of Science and Development in the 1980s and early 1990s. Pic.


||2009: Hans Holzer dies ... paranormal investigator and author.
||2009: Hans Holzer dies ... paranormal investigator and author. Pic.


||2014: Georgy Maximovich Adelson-Velsky dies ... mathematician and computer scientist. Pic: https://memim.com/georgy-adelson-velsky.html
||2014: Georgy Maximovich Adelson-Velsky dies ... mathematician and computer scientist. Pic: https://memim.com/georgy-adelson-velsky.html


||2014: Jacqueline Ferrand dies ... mathematician and academic. Ferrand worked on conformal representation theory, potential theory, and Riemannian manifolds. Pic search yes: https://www.google.com/search?q=jacqueline+ferrand
||2014: Jacqueline Ferrand dies ... mathematician and academic. Ferrand worked on conformal representation theory, potential theory, and Riemannian manifolds. Pic search.


||2014: Gerald Stanford Guralnik dies ... Professor of Physics at Brown University. In 1964 he co-discovered the Higgs mechanism and Higgs boson with C. R. Hagen and Tom Kibble. Pic.
||2014: Gerald Stanford Guralnik dies ... Professor of Physics at Brown University. In 1964 he co-discovered the Higgs mechanism and Higgs boson with C. R. Hagen and Tom Kibble. Pic.

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