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||1533 – Jacopo Zabarella, Italian philosopher and logician (d. 1589)
||1533: Jacopo Zabarella born ... philosopher and logician. Zabarella's work reflects his teaching in the Aristotelian tradition; he devoted much effort to presenting what he considered to be the true meaning of Aristotle's texts.  Pic search good: https://www.google.com/search?q=jacopo+zabarella


|File:Canterbury_scrying_engine.jpg|link=Canterbury scrying engine|1534: [[Canterbury scrying engine]] predicts birth of mathematician [[Federico Commandino (nonfiction)|Federico Commandino]].
||1568: Tommaso Campanella born ... astrologer, theologian, and poet ... cf. Galileo. Pic.


File:Federico Commandino.jpg|link=Federico Commandino (nonfiction)|1575:  Mathematician [[Federico Commandino (nonfiction)|Federico Commandino]] born. He will gain fame for his central role as translator of works of ancient mathematicians.
File:Federico Commandino.jpg|link=Federico Commandino (nonfiction)|1575:  Mathematician [[Federico Commandino (nonfiction)|Federico Commandino]] born. He will gain fame for his central role as translator of works of ancient mathematicians.
File:Galileo Galilei.jpg|link=Galileo Galilei|1588: Astronomer, physicist, engineer, philosopher, mathematician, and crime-fighter [[Galileo Galilei]] uses [[Gnomon algorithm]] techniques to locate alleged supervillain [[Anarchimedes]].


File:Henry Oldenburg.jpg|link=Henry Oldenburg (nonfiction)|1677: Theologian, natural philosopher, and diplomat [[Henry Oldenburg (nonfiction)|Henry Oldenburg]] dies. He was one of the foremost intelligencers of Europe of the seventeenth century, and the creator of scientific peer review.  
File:Henry Oldenburg.jpg|link=Henry Oldenburg (nonfiction)|1677: Theologian, natural philosopher, and diplomat [[Henry Oldenburg (nonfiction)|Henry Oldenburg]] dies. He was one of the foremost intelligencers of Europe of the seventeenth century, and the creator of scientific peer review.  


||1667 – Giovanni Girolamo Saccheri, Italian priest, mathematician, and philosopher (d. 1733). Pic.
||1667: Giovanni Girolamo Saccheri born ... priest, mathematician, and philosopher. Pic.


File:Jean-Étienne Montucla.jpg|link=Jean-Étienne Montucla (nonfiction)|1725: Mathematician and theorist [[Jean-Étienne Montucla (nonfiction)|Jean-Étienne Montucla]] born. His deep interest in history of mathematics will become apparent with his publication of ''Histoire des Mathématiques'', the first part appearing in 1758.
File:Jean-Étienne Montucla.jpg|link=Jean-Étienne Montucla (nonfiction)|1725: Mathematician and theorist [[Jean-Étienne Montucla (nonfiction)|Jean-Étienne Montucla]] born. His deep interest in history of mathematics will become apparent with his publication of ''Histoire des Mathématiques'', the first part appearing in 1758.


||1787 – François Sulpice Beudant, French mineralogist and geologist (d. 1850)
||1787: François Sulpice Beudant born ... mineralogist, geologist, and academic. He wrote on geology and mining, as well as the physical and chemical properties of minerals, and built up the mineralogical collection of the Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle into one of the world's best.  Pic.
 
||1798: Conscription is made mandatory in France by the Jourdan law.
 
||1792: Ours-Pierre-Armand Petit-Dufrénoy born ... geologist and mineralogist. Pic.
 
||1829: Lester Allan Pelton born ... inventor who contributed significantly to the development of hydroelectricity and hydropower in the old West and world-wide. In the late 1870s, he invented the Pelton water wheel, at that time the most efficient design of the impulse water turbine. Pic.
 
||1847: Jesse James born ... outlaw. Pic.
 
||1850: Eugen Goldstein born ... physicist. He was an early investigator of discharge tubes, the discoverer of anode rays, and is sometimes credited with the discovery of the proton. Pic search good: https://www.google.com/search?q=Eugen+Goldstein


||1798 – Conscription is made mandatory in France by the Jourdan law.
||1857: Auguste Comte born ... economist, sociologist, and philosopher. Pic.


||1792 – Ours-Pierre-Armand Petit-Dufrénoy, French geologist and mineralogist (d. 1857)
||1878: Robert von Lieben born ... physicist. Pic.


||1847 – Jesse James, American outlaw (d. 1882)
||1902: Rudolf Virchow dies ... anthropologist, pathologist, and biologist. Pic.


||Eugen Goldstein (b. 5 September 1850) was a German physicist. He was an early investigator of discharge tubes, the discoverer of anode rays, and is sometimes credited with the discovery of the proton.
||1906: Ludwig Boltzmann dies ... physicist and philosopher ... development of statistical mechanics, which explains and predicts how the properties of atoms (such as mass, charge, and structure) determine the physical properties of matter (such as viscosity, thermal conductivity, and diffusion). Pic.


||Robert von Lieben (b. September 5, 1878) was a notable Austrian physicist. Pic.
||1908: Edoardo Amaldi born ... physicist. Pic.


||1902 – Rudolf Virchow, German anthropologist, pathologist, and biologist (b. 1821)
||1909: Louis Bouveault dies ... chemist ... known for the Bouveault aldehyde synthesis and the Bouveault–Blanc reduction. Pic search scanty: https://www.google.com/search?q=Louis+Bouveault


||1906 – Ludwig Boltzmann, Austrian physicist and philosopher (b. 1844) Ludwig Eduard Boltzmann (February 20, 1844 – September 5, 1906) was an Austrian physicist and philosopher whose greatest achievement was in the development of statistical mechanics, which explains and predicts how the properties of atoms (such as mass, charge, and structure) determine the physical properties of matter (such as viscosity, thermal conductivity, and diffusion).
||1914: Nicanor Parra born ... physicist, mathematician, and poet. Parra was a professor of theoretical physics in Santiago, and read his poetry in England, France, Russia, Mexico, Cuba, and the United States; his poetic language renounced the refinement of most Latin American literature and adopted a more colloquial tone. Pic.


||Edoardo Amaldi (b. 5 September 1908) was an Italian physicist. Pic.
||1917: Marian Smoluchowski dies ... physicist and mountaineer. Pic.


||1914 – Nicanor Parra, Chilean physicist, mathematician, and poet
||1922: Denys Wilkinson born ... physicist and academic. Wilkinson's work in nuclear physics included investigation of the properties of nuclei with low numbers of nucleons. He was amongst the first to experimentally test rules relating to isospin. He also applied concepts from physics to the study of bird navigation. He is also notable for the invention of the Wilkinson Analog-to-Digital Converter, to support his experimental work. Pic search yes: https://www.google.com/search?q=Denys+Wilkinson


||1917 – Marian Smoluchowski, Austrian-Polish physicist and mountaineer (b. 1872)
||1923: Peter Glaser born ... scientist and engineer. Pic search yes: https://www.google.com/search?q=peter+glaser


||1922 – Denys Wilkinson, English physicist and academic
||1945: Cold War: Igor Gouzenko, a Soviet Union embassy clerk, defects to Canada, exposing Soviet espionage in North America, signalling the beginning of the Cold War.


||1945 – Cold War: Igor Gouzenko, a Soviet Union embassy clerk, defects to Canada, exposing Soviet espionage in North America, signalling the beginning of the Cold War.
||1945: The ZEEP (Zero Energy Experimental Pile) reactor was a nuclear reactor built at the Chalk River Laboratories near Chalk River, Ontario, Canada (which superseded the Montreal Laboratory for nuclear research in Canada). ZEEP first went critical at 15:45 on September 5, 1945.


||1946 – Freddie Mercury, Tanzanian-English singer-songwriter and producer (d. 1991)
||1946: Freddie Mercury born ... singer-songwriter and producer.


File:Bernoulli_wappen.png|link=Bernoulli family (nonfiction)|1947: Advances in [[Cellular automaton (nonfiction)|dynastic cellular automata theory]] reveal new members of [[Bernoulli family (nonfiction)|Bernoulli family]].
File:Bernoulli_wappen.png|link=Bernoulli family (nonfiction)|1947: Advances in [[Cellular automaton (nonfiction)|dynastic cellular automata theory]] reveal new members of [[Bernoulli family (nonfiction)|Bernoulli family]].
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File:Tolman and Einstein.jpg|link=Richard C. Tolman (nonfiction)|1948: Physicist and chemist [[Richard C. Tolman (nonfiction)|Richard C. Tolman]] dies. He made important contributions to theoretical cosmology in the years soon after Einstein's discovery of general relativity.
File:Tolman and Einstein.jpg|link=Richard C. Tolman (nonfiction)|1948: Physicist and chemist [[Richard C. Tolman (nonfiction)|Richard C. Tolman]] dies. He made important contributions to theoretical cosmology in the years soon after Einstein's discovery of general relativity.


File:Alice Beta.jpg|link=Alice Beta|1948: Mathematician and crime-fighter [[Alice Beta]] publishes new class of [[Gnomon algorithm functions]] which detect and prevent [[crimes against mathematical constants]].
|File:Nikolay Basov.jpg|link=Nikolay Basov (nonfiction)|1957: Physicist and educator [[Nikolay Basov (nonfiction)|Nikolay Basov]] uses [[Gnomon algorithm functions]] to communicate with [[Bernoulli family (nonfiction)|Bernoulli family]].


|File:Nikolay Basov.jpg|link=Nikolay Basov (nonfiction)|1957: Physicist and educator [[Nikolay Basov (nonfiction)|Nikolay Basov]] uses [[Gnomon algorithm functions]] to communicate with [[Bernoulli family (nonfiction)|Bernoulli family]].
||1972: Tadeusz Ważewski dies ... mathematician. He made important contributions to the theory of ordinary differential equations, partial differential equations, control theory and the theory of analytic spaces. Ważewski  is most famous for applying the topological concept of retract to the study of the solutions of differential equations. Pic: http://www.archiwum-nauki.krakow.pl/pl/wystawy/wazewski.html
 
||1975: Cornelis Benjamin Biezeno dies ... applied mathematician and scientist in engineering mechanics.  Pic.
 
||1975: Microbiologist Alice Catherine Evans dies.  she investigated bacteriology in milk and cheese. She later demonstrated that ''Bacillus abortus'' caused the disease Brucellosis (undulant fever or Malta fever) in both cattle and humans. Pic.


File:Voyager spacecraft diagram.png|link=Voyager 1 (nonfiction)|1977: [[Voyager 1 (nonfiction)|Voyager 1]] spacecraft launches.  It will visit Jupiter, Saturn, and Saturn's large moon Titan.
File:Voyager spacecraft diagram.png|link=Voyager 1 (nonfiction)|1977: [[Voyager 1 (nonfiction)|Voyager 1]] spacecraft launches.  It will visit Jupiter, Saturn, and Saturn's large moon Titan.


||Edwin Ford Beckenbach (d. 5 September 1982) was an American mathematician.
||1982: Edwin F. Beckenbach dies ... mathematician. Pic.


||1994 – Shimshon Amitsur, Israeli mathematician and scholar (b. 1921)
||1989: John Barkley Rosser Sr. (December 6, 1907 – September 5, 1989) was an American logician, a student of Alonzo Church, and known for his part in the Church–Rosser theorem, in lambda calculus. In 1936, he proved Rosser's trick, a stronger version of Gödel's first incompleteness theorem, showing that the requirement for ω-consistency may be weakened to consistency.  Pic: ||1907: John Barkley Rosser Sr. born ... logician. Pic: http://sites.jmu.edu/jmuresearch/tag/j-barkley-rosser/


||2002 – David Todd Wilkinson, American cosmologist and astronomer (b. 1935) David Todd Wilkinson (13 May 1935 – 5 September 2002)[1] was a world-renowned pioneer in the field of cosmology, specializing in the study of the cosmic microwave background radiation (CMB) left over from the Big Bang.
||1994: Shimshon Amitsur dies ... mathematician and scholar. Pic.


||Philip McCord Morse (d. 5 September 1985), was an American physicist, administrator and pioneer of operations research (OR) in World War II. He is considered to be the father of operations research in the U.S.
||2002: David Todd Wilkinson dies ... cosmologist and astronomer ... specializing in the study of the cosmic microwave background radiation (CMB) left over from the Big Bang. Pic.


||2014 – Mara Neusel, German mathematician, author, and academic (b. 1964)
||1985: Philip M. Morse dies ... physicist, administrator and pioneer of operations research (OR) in World War II. He is considered to be the father of operations research in the U.S.  Pic search yes: https://www.google.com/search?q=Philip+McCord+Morse


File:Six Seconds to Hell.jpg|link=Six Seconds to Hell|2017: Art thieves steal ''[[Six Seconds to Hell]]'', demand million-dollar ransom.  
||2014: Mara Neusel dies ... mathematician, author, and academic ... an advocate for women in mathematics. The focus of her mathematical work was on invariant theory. Pic search yes: https://www.google.com/search?q=mara+neusel


||Nicolaas "Nico" Bloembergen (d. September 5, 2017) was a Dutch-American physicist and Nobel laureate, recognized for his work in developing driving principles behind nonlinear optics for laser spectroscopy. During his career, he was a professor at both Harvard University and later at the University of Arizona. Bloembergen shared the 1981 Nobel Prize in Physics with Arthur Schawlow, along with Kai Siegbahn for his laser spectroscopy work.
||2017: Nicolaas Bloembergen dies ... physicist and Nobel laureate, recognized for his work in developing driving principles behind nonlinear optics for laser spectroscopy. During his career, he was a professor at both Harvard University and later at the University of Arizona. Bloembergen shared the 1981 Nobel Prize in Physics with Arthur Schawlow, along with Kai Siegbahn for his laser spectroscopy work. Pic.


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  • 1575: Mathematician Federico Commandino born. He will gain fame for his central role as translator of works of ancient mathematicians.

    1575: Mathematician Federico Commandino born. He will gain fame for his central role as translator of works of ancient mathematicians.

  • 1677: Theologian, natural philosopher, and diplomat Henry Oldenburg dies. He was one of the foremost intelligencers of Europe of the seventeenth century, and the creator of scientific peer review.

    1677: Theologian, natural philosopher, and diplomat Henry Oldenburg dies. He was one of the foremost intelligencers of Europe of the seventeenth century, and the creator of scientific peer review.

  • 1725: Mathematician and theorist Jean-Étienne Montucla born. His deep interest in history of mathematics will become apparent with his publication of Histoire des Mathématiques, the first part appearing in 1758.

    1725: Mathematician and theorist Jean-Étienne Montucla born. His deep interest in history of mathematics will become apparent with his publication of Histoire des Mathématiques, the first part appearing in 1758.

  • 1947: Advances in dynastic cellular automata theory reveal new members of Bernoulli family.

    1947: Advances in dynastic cellular automata theory reveal new members of Bernoulli family.

  • 1948: Physicist and chemist Richard C. Tolman dies. He made important contributions to theoretical cosmology in the years soon after Einstein's discovery of general relativity.

    1948: Physicist and chemist Richard C. Tolman dies. He made important contributions to theoretical cosmology in the years soon after Einstein's discovery of general relativity.

  • 1977: Voyager 1 spacecraft launches. It will visit Jupiter, Saturn, and Saturn's large moon Titan.

    1977: Voyager 1 spacecraft launches. It will visit Jupiter, Saturn, and Saturn's large moon Titan.

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