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File:Martin Waldseemüller.jpg|link=Martin Waldseemüller (nonfiction)|1470: Mapmaker [[Martin Waldseemüller (nonfiction)|Martin Waldseemüller]] born. He will produce a globular world map and a large 12-panel world wall map using the information from Columbus and Vespucci's travels (Universalis Cosmographia), both bearing the first use of the name "America".
File:Martin Waldseemüller.jpg|link=Martin Waldseemüller (nonfiction)|1470: Mapmaker [[Martin Waldseemüller (nonfiction)|Martin Waldseemüller]] born. He will produce a globular world map and a large 12-panel world wall map using the information from Columbus and Vespucci's travels (Universalis Cosmographia), both bearing the first use of the name "America".
File:Michel de Montaigne.jpg|link=Michel de Montaigne (nonfiction)|1581: Philosopher and alleged time-traveller [[Michel de Montaigne (nonfiction)|Michel de Montaigne]], known for popularizing the essay as a literary genre, publishes new theory predicting the existence of [[high-energy literature]].


||1717: Pehr Wilhelm Wargentin born ... astronomer and demographer. Pic.
||1717: Pehr Wilhelm Wargentin born ... astronomer and demographer. Pic.
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File:Joseph Nicollet.jpg|link=Joseph Nicollet (nonfiction)|1843: Mathematician and explorer [[Joseph Nicollet (nonfiction)|Joseph Nicollet]] dies. He mapped the Upper Mississippi River basin during the 1830s.
File:Joseph Nicollet.jpg|link=Joseph Nicollet (nonfiction)|1843: Mathematician and explorer [[Joseph Nicollet (nonfiction)|Joseph Nicollet]] dies. He mapped the Upper Mississippi River basin during the 1830s.


||1847: Mary Watson Whitney born ... astronomer and academic.
||1847: Mary Watson Whitney born ... astronomer and academic. Pic.


File:James Braid.jpg|link=James Braid (nonfiction)|1859: Surgeon and gentleman scientist [[James Braid (nonfiction)|James Braid]] uses principles of hypnotherapy to detect and prevent [[crimes against mathematical constants]].
File:William Sydney Porter.jpg|link=O. Henry (nonfiction)|1862: Short story writer [[O. Henry (nonfiction)|O. Henry]], known for his surprise endings, born.  


File:William Sydney Porter.jpg|link=O. Henry (nonfiction)|1862: Short story writer [[O. Henry (nonfiction)|O. Henry]], known for his surprise endings, born.  
||1862: Hawley Harvey Crippen born ... physician and murderer ... telegraph. Pic.


||1877: James Jeans born ... physicist, astronomer, and mathematician. Pic.
||1877: James Jeans born ... physicist, astronomer, and mathematician. Pic.


||1890: Felice Casorati dies ... mathematician who studied at the University of Pavia. He is best known for the Casorati–Weierstrass theorem in complex analysis.  
File:Felice Casorati.jpg|link=Felice Casorati (nonfiction)|1890: [[Felice Casorati (nonfiction)|Felice Casorati]] dies. Casorati is best known for the Casorati–Weierstrass theorem in complex analysis.  


||1910: Fritz Karl Preikschat born ... electrical and telecommunications engineer and inventor. Pic.
||1910: Fritz Karl Preikschat born ... electrical and telecommunications engineer and inventor. Pic.


||1917: Kenkichi Iwasawa born ... mathematician who is known for his influence on algebraic number theory.
||1917: Kenkichi Iwasawa born ... mathematician who is known for his influence on algebraic number theory.  Pic search.


||1926: Heini Halberstam born ... mathematician, working in the field of analytic number theory. He is one of the two mathematicians after whom the Elliott–Halberstam conjecture is named.
||1926: Heini Halberstam born ... mathematician, working in the field of analytic number theory. He is one of the two mathematicians after whom the Elliott–Halberstam conjecture is named. Pic search.


||1936: Herman Haga dies ... physicist. Pic.
||1936: Herman Haga dies ... physicist. Pic.


||1940: George Stibitz performs the first remote operation of a computer.
||1940: George Stibitz performs the first remote operation of a computer. Pic.


||1943: Mathematician Oswald Teichmüller dies. Pic.
||1943: Mathematician Oswald Teichmüller dies. Pic.
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||1972: Johannes de Groot dies ... mathematician, the leading Dutch topologist for more than two decades following World War II. Pic.
||1972: Johannes de Groot dies ... mathematician, the leading Dutch topologist for more than two decades following World War II. Pic.


File:Peter Giblets.jpg|link=Peter Giblets|1973: Talk show host [[Peter Giblets]] exchanges record number of witticisms-per-minute with talk show host [[Dick Cavett (nonfiction)|Dick Cavett]] on the highest-ever rated episode of the ''Peter Giblets Hour''.
||1986: Henry DeWolf Smyth dies ... physicist, diplomat, and bureaucrat. He played a number of key roles in the early development of nuclear energy, as a participant in the Manhattan Project, a member of the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission (AEC), and U.S. ambassador to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). Pic.
 
||1986: Henry DeWolf "Harry" Smyth dies ... physicist, diplomat, and bureaucrat. He played a number of key roles in the early development of nuclear energy, as a participant in the Manhattan Project, a member of the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission (AEC), and U.S. ambassador to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).


||1993: Wolfgang R. Wasow dies ... mathematician known for his work in asymptotic expansions and their applications in differential equations. Pic.
||1993: Wolfgang R. Wasow dies ... mathematician known for his work in asymptotic expansions and their applications in differential equations. Pic.
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||2007: Russia tests the largest conventional weapon ever, the Father of All Bombs.
||2007: Russia tests the largest conventional weapon ever, the Father of All Bombs.


File:Andrzej Trybulec.jpg|link=Andrzej Trybulec|2013: Mathematician and computer scientist [[Andrzej Trybulec (nonfiction)|Andrzej Trybulec]] dies. He developed the Mizar system: a formal language for writing mathematical definitions and proofs, a proof assistant which is able to mechanically check proofs written in this language, and a library of formalized mathematics which can be used in the proof of new theorems.
||2012: Irving S. Reed dies ... mathematician and engineer. He is best known for co-inventing a class of algebraic error-correcting and error-detecting codes known as Reed–Solomon codes in collaboration with Gustave Solomon. He also co-invented the Reed–Muller code. Pic search.


File:Do_Not_Tease_Monster_by_Karl_Jones_800x600.jpg|link=Do Not Tease Monster (nonfiction)|2018: Signed first edition of ''[[Do Not Tease Monster]]'' stolen from the private collection of celebrity [[Peter Giblets]] by agents of the [[Forbidden Ratio]] gang, held for ransom.
File:Andrzej Trybulec.jpg|link=Andrzej Trybulec (nonfiction)|2013: Mathematician and computer scientist [[Andrzej Trybulec (nonfiction)|Andrzej Trybulec]] dies. He developed the Mizar system: a formal language for writing mathematical definitions and proofs, a proof assistant which is able to mechanically check proofs written in this language, and a library of formalized mathematics which can be used in the proof of new theorems.


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