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File:Michele_Mercati_by_Petrus_Nellus.jpg|link=Michele Mercati (nonfiction)|1593: Physician and archaeologist [[Michele Mercati (nonfiction)|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.
File:Michele_Mercati_by_Petrus_Nellus.jpg|link=Michele Mercati (nonfiction)|1593: Physician and archaeologist [[Michele Mercati (nonfiction)|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 – Giovanni Battista Riccioli, Italian priest and astronomer (b. 1598) Giovanni Battista Riccioli[1] (Italian pronunciation: [d͡ʒoˈvanni batˈtista riˈt͡ʃɔlli]; 17 April 1598 – 25 June 1671) was an Italian astronomer and a Catholic priest in the Jesuit order. He is known, among other things, for his experiments with pendulums and with falling bodies, for his discussion of 126 arguments concerning the motion of the Earth, and for introducing the current scheme of lunar nomenclature.
File:Giovanni_Battista_Riccioli.jpg|link=Giovanni Battista Riccioli (nonfiction)|1671: Priest and astromomer [[Giovanni Battista Riccioli (nonfiction)|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.


File:Maria Gaetana Agnesi engraving.jpg|link=Maria Gaetana Agnesi (nonfiction)|1764: Mathematician [[Maria Gaetana Agnesi (nonfiction)|Maria Gaetana Agnesi]] uses [[Gnomon algorithm]] techniques to detect and prevent [[crimes against mathematical constants]].
||1798: Thomas Sandby dies ... cartographer, painter, and architect. No DOB. Pic.


||1798 – Thomas Sandby, English cartographer, painter, and architect (b. 1721)
||1814: Gabriel Auguste Daubrée born ... geologist, engineer, and academic. He will be distinguished for his long-continued and often dangerous experiments on the artificial production of minerals and rocks. Pic.


||1814 – Gabriel Auguste Daubrée, French geologist and engineer (d. 1896)
||1838: François-Nicolas-Benoît Haxo dies ...  French Army general and military engineer during the French Revolution and First Empire. Pic.


||1864 – Walther Nernst, German chemist and physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1941)
||1864: Walther Nernst born ... chemist and physicist, Nobel Prize laureate. His formulation of the Nernst heat theorem helped pave the way for the third law of thermodynamics, for which he won the 1920 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. Pic.


||1866 – Alexander von Nordmann, Finnish biologist and paleontologist (b. 1803)
||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)
||1868: Alexander Mitchell dies ... blind engineer, invented the Screw-pile lighthouse. Pic search.


||1894 – Hermann Oberth, Romanian-German physicist and engineer (d. 1989)
||1874: Rose O'Neill born ... cartoonist, illustrator, artist, and writer.


||1894 – Marie François Sadi Carnot, French engineer and politician, 5th President of France (b. 1837)
||1888: William Threlfall born ... British-born German mathematician who worked on algebraic topology. He was a coauthor of the standard textbook ''Lehrbuch der Topologie''. Signed Nazi doc. Pic.


||Charles Romley Alder Wright FCS, FRS (d. 25 June 1894) was an English chemistry and physics researcher
||1894: Hermann Oberth born ... physicist and engineer.


||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.
||1894: Marie François Sadi Carnot dies ... engineer and politician, 5th President of France.


||1905 – Rupert Wildt, German-American astronomer and academic (d. 1976)
||1894: Charles Romley Alder Wright dies ... chemistry and physics researcher


||1906 – Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania millionaire Harry Thaw shoots and kills prominent architect Stanford White.
||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)
 
||1906: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania millionaire Harry Thaw shoots and kills prominent architect Stanford White.


File:Johannes Hans Daniel Jensen.jpg|link=J. Hans D. Jensen (nonfiction)|1907: Nuclear physicist [[J. Hans D. Jensen (nonfiction)|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.  
File:Johannes Hans Daniel Jensen.jpg|link=J. Hans D. Jensen (nonfiction)|1907: Nuclear physicist [[J. Hans D. Jensen (nonfiction)|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.  


||Willard Van Orman Quine (b. June 25, 1908) was an American philosopher and logician in the analytic tradition, recognized as "one of the most influential philosophers of the twentieth century." Pic.
||1908: Willard Van Orman Quine born ... philosopher and logician in the analytic tradition, recognized as "one of the most influential philosophers of the twentieth century." Pic.


||1910 – The United States Congress passes the Mann Act, which prohibits interstate transport of females for “immoral purposes”; the ambiguous language would be used to selectively prosecute people for years to come.
||1910: The United States Congress passes the Mann Act, which prohibits interstate transport of females for “immoral purposes”; the ambiguous language would be used to selectively prosecute people for years to come.


||1911 – William Howard Stein, American chemist and biologist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1980)
||1911: William Howard Stein born ... chemist and biologist, Nobel Prize laureate ... with Christian Boehmer Anfinsen and Stanford Moore, for their work on ribonuclease and for their contribution to the understanding of the connection between chemical structure and catalytic activity of the ribonuclease molecule. Pic.


||1928 – Alexei Alexeyevich Abrikosov, Russian-American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2017)
||1928: Alexei Alexeyevich Abrikosov born ... theoretical physicist whose main contributions are in the field of condensed matter physics.  He was the co-recipient of the 2003 Nobel Prize in Physics, with Vitaly Ginzburg and Anthony James Leggett, for theories about how matter can behave at extremely low temperatures.  Pic.


||1935 – Charles Sheffield, English-American mathematician, physicist, and author (d. 2002)
||1928: Alexander Toth born ... cartoonist active from the 1940s through the 1980s. Toth's work began in the American comic book industry, but he is also known for his animation designs for Hanna-Barbera throughout the 1960s and 1970s. His work included Super Friends, Fantastic Four, Space Ghost, Sealab 2020, The Herculoids and Birdman. Toth's work has been resurrected in the late-night, adult-themed spin-offs on Cartoon Network: Space Ghost Coast to Coast, Sealab 2021 and Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law. Pic.


||1943 – The left-wing German Jewish exile Arthur Goldstein murdered in Auschwitz.
||1931: Anatoli Georgievich Vitushkin born ... mathematician noted for his work on mathematical analysis and analytic capacity. Pic search.


||1944 – The final page of the comic Krazy Kat is published, exactly two months after its author George Herriman died.
||1933: Roy Dommett born ... scientist and engineer ... rockets. Pic search.


||1959 – Bobbie Vaile, Australian astrophysicist and astronomer (d. 1996)
||1935: Charles Sheffield born ... mathematician, physicist, and author. Pic search.


||1960 – Two cryptographers working for the United States National Security Agency left for vacation to Mexico, and from there defected to the Soviet Union.
||1941: Alfred Pringsheim dies ... mathematician and patron of the arts.  He will study real and complex functions, following the power-series-approach of the Weierstrass school. Pringsheim published numerous works on the subject of complex analysis, with a focus on the summability theory of infinite series and the boundary behavior of analytic functions. Pic.


||1971 – John Boyd Orr, 1st Baron Boyd-Orr, Scottish physician, biologist, and politician, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1880)
||1943: The left-wing German Jewish exile Arthur Goldstein murdered in Auschwitz.


||1974 – Cornelius Lanczos, Hungarian mathematician and physicist (b. 1893)
||1944: The final page of the comic Krazy Kat is published, exactly two months after its author George Herriman died.


||1981 – Microsoft is restructured to become an incorporated business in its home state of Washington.
||1959: Bobbie Vaile born ... astrophysicist and astronomer.


||1984 – American singer Prince releases his most successful studio album Purple Rain.
||1960: Walter Baade dies, German astronomer and author. He will discover that there are two types of Cepheid variable stars. Using this discovery he recalculated the size of the known universe, doubling the previous calculation made by Hubble in 1929. Pic.


||1995 – Ernest Walton, Irish physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1903)
||1960: Two cryptographers working for the United States National Security Agency left for vacation to Mexico, and from there defected to the Soviet Union.
 
||1961: Ricky Gervais born ... stand-up comedian, actor, writer, producer, director, and singer.
 
||1971: John Boyd Orr dies ... physician, biologist, and politician, Nobel Prize laureate.
 
||1974: Cornelius Lanczos dies ... mathematician and physicist. Pic.
 
||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.
 
||1995: Ernest Walton dies ... physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic.


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.
 
||2006: Irving Kaplansky born ... mathematician, college professor, author, and musician. Pic.


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


File:The Eel Time-Surfing.jpg|link=The Eel Time-Surfing|2017: New computational analysis of ''[[The Eel Time-Surfing]]'' reveals previously unknown cache of steganographic data.
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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.

  • 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.

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