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||1568: Marino Ghetaldi born ... scientist. A mathematician and physicist who studied in Italy, England and Belgium, his best results are mainly in physics, especially optics, and mathematics. Pic.


File:Bernardino Telesio.jpg|link=Bernardino Telesio (nonfiction)|1588: Philosopher and scientist [[Bernardino Telesio (nonfiction)|Bernardino Telesio]] dies. While his natural theories were later disproven, his emphasis on observation influenced the emergence of the scientific method.
File:Bernardino Telesio.jpg|link=Bernardino Telesio (nonfiction)|1588: Philosopher and scientist [[Bernardino Telesio (nonfiction)|Bernardino Telesio]] dies. While his natural theories were later disproven, his emphasis on observation influenced the emergence of the scientific method.


||1804 – Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot, French engineer (b. 1725)
File:Sir Isaac Newton by Sir Godfrey Kneller.jpg|link=Isaac Newton (nonfiction)|1667: Mathematician and physicist [[Isaac Newton (nonfiction)|Isaac Newton]] becomes a fellow at Trinity College, Cambridge. He had earned his bachelor's degree in 1665 and then spent two years at home in Lincolnshire inventing much of differential and integral calculus while Cambridge was closed due to plague.
 
||1745: Isaac Greenwood dies ... first Hollisian Professor of Mathematics and Natural Philosophy at Harvard College. During his tenure, he wrote anonymously the first natively-published American book on mathematics – the Greenwood Book, published in 1729. Pic search.
 
||1804: Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot dies ... engineer. Pic.
 
||1826: Gustav Heinrich Wiedemann born ... physicist known mostly for his literary work. Pic.
 
||1852: William Ramsay born ... chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic.
 
File:François Arago.jpg|link=François Arago (nonfiction)|1853: Mathematician and politician [[François Arago (nonfiction)|François Arago]] born.  He observed that a rotating plate of copper tends to communicate its motion to a magnetic needle suspended over it, an effect now known as eddy current.
 
||1854: Patrick Geddes born ... biologist, sociologist, geographer, and philanthropist. Pic.
 
||1883: Karl von Terzaghi born ... geologist and engineer. Pic.
 
||1886: Astronomer Robert Julius Trumpler born. He will observe that the brightness of the more distant open clusters is lower than expected, and the stars appear more red, a phenomenon caused by interstellar dust absorbing interstellar light. Pic.
 
||1901: Rudolph Koenig dies ... physicist and academic.  He was a pioneer of acoustical physics and engineering; his Koenig sound analyzer revolutionized musical and scientific worlds by demonstrated visually that musical notes and voices were in fact made up of simple sounds. Pic.
 
||1901: Charles Stark Draper born ... scientist and engineer, known as the "father of inertial navigation". He was the founder and director of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Instrumentation Laboratory, later renamed the Charles Stark Draper Laboratory, which made the Apollo Moon landings possible through the Apollo Guidance Computer it designed for NASA. Pic search.
 
||1906: Willy Ley born ... science writer, spaceflight advocate, and historian of science who helped to popularize rocketry, spaceflight, and natural history in both Germany and the United States. Pic.
 
||1907: Alexander R. Todd born ... biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic.
 
||1909: Alex Raymond born ... cartoonist, creator of Flash Gordon. Pic.
 
||1914: Jack Parsons born ... chemist, occultist, and engineer. Pic.
 
||1916: Leonard C. Lewin born ... writer, best known as the author of the bestseller ''The Report from Iron Mountain'' (1967). No pics?
 
||1917: Christian de Duve born ... cytologist and biochemist, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic.


||1852 – William Ramsay, Scottish-English chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1916)
||1921: Albert Scott Crossfield born ... pilot and engineer. Pic.


||1853 – François Arago, French mathematician, physicist, astronomer, and politician, 25th Prime Minister of France (b. 1786)
File:John Logie Baird 1917.jpg|link=John Logie Baird (nonfiction)|1925: [[John Logie Baird (nonfiction)|John Logie Baird]] performs the first test of a working television system.


||1854 – Patrick Geddes, Scottish biologist, sociologist, geographer, and philanthropist (d. 1932)
||1926: Michio Suzuki born ... mathematician who studied group theory. Pic search.


||1883 – Karl von Terzaghi, Czech-American geologist and engineer (d. 1963)
||1927: Svante Arrhenius born ... physicist and chemist, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic.


||1907 – Alexander R. Todd, Scottish-English biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1997)
||1933: John Gurdon born ... biologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. (Alive October 2020.)


||1909 – Alex Raymond, American cartoonist, creator of Flash Gordon (d. 1956)
||1947: P. D. Ouspensky dies ... mathematician and philosopher. Pic.


||1914 – Jack Parsons, American chemist, occultist, and engineer (d. 1952)
||1950: Peanuts by Charles M. Schulz is first published.


||1917 – Christian de Duve, English-Belgian cytologist and biochemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2013)
File:ENIAC.jpg|link=ENIAC (nonfiction)|1955: [[ENIAC (nonfiction)|ENIAC]] retired. After disassembly, parts of the Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer, the first general purpose electronic computer, were shipped to the Smithsonian for display.  


||1921 – Albert Scott Crossfield, American pilot and engineer (d. 2006)
||1959: The anthology series ''The Twilight Zone'' premieres on CBS television.


||1925 – John Logie Baird performs the first test of a working television system.
||1962: Boris Yakovlevich Bukreev dies ... mathematician and author. Pic.


||1927 – Svante Arrhenius, Swedish physicist and chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1859)
||1967: Hans Reissner dies ... aeronautical engineer whose avocation was mathematical physics. He solved Einstein's equation for the metric of a charged point mass.  His Reissner–Nordström metric demonstrated that an electron has a naked singularity rather that an event horizon. Pic.


||1933 – John Gurdon, English biologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
||1977: Beniamino Segre dies ... mathematician who is remembered today as a major contributor to algebraic geometry and one of the founders of finite geometry. Pic.


||1947 – P. D. Ouspensky, Russian-English mathematician and philosopher (b. 1878)
||1990: Géza Ottlik dies ... mathematician and bridge theorist. His 1979 book ''Adventures in Card Play'', written with Hugh Kelsey, introduced and developed new concepts (such as Backwash squeeze and Entry-shifting squeeze).  Pic search.


||1950 – Peanuts by Charles M. Schulz is first published.
||1996: The Electronic Freedom of Information Act Amendments are signed by U.S. President Bill Clinton.


||1959 – The anthology series The Twilight Zone premieres on CBS television.
||1998: Olin Jeuck Eggen dies ... astronomer. He became known as one of the best observational astronomers of his time. He will be the first to introduce the now-accepted notion of moving groups of stars, and co-author of a seminal 1962 paper which suggests for the first time that the Milky Way Galaxy had collapsed out of a gas cloud. Pic.


||1962 – Boris Yakovlevich Bukreev, Russian mathematician and author (b. 1859)
||1999: Tosio Kato dies ... mathematician who worked with partial differential equations, mathematical physics and functional analysis. Pic.


||1996 – The Electronic Freedom of Information Act Amendments are signed by U.S. President Bill Clinton.
||2002: Heinz von Foerster dies ... physicist and philosopher. A polymath, von Foerster gained renown in fields from computer science and artificial intelligence to epistemology, and researched high-speed electronics and electro-optics switching devices as a physicist, and in biophysics, the study of memory and knowledge. He worked on cognition based on neurophysiology, mathematics, and philosophy. Pic.


||2002 – Heinz von Foerster, Austrian-American physicist and philosopher (b. 1911)
File:Paul Halmos.jpg|link=Paul Halmos (nonfiction)|2006: Mathematician and academic [[Paul Halmos (nonfiction)|Paul Halmos]] dies. He made fundamental advances in the areas of mathematical logic, probability theory, statistics, operator theory, ergodic theory, and functional analysis (in particular, Hilbert spaces).  


||2006 – Paul Halmos, Hungarian-American mathematician (b. 1916)
||2009: Shaun Wylie dies ... mathematician and World War II codebreaker. Pic.


||2013 – Abraham Nemeth, American mathematician and academic (b. 1918)
||2013: Abraham Nemeth dies ... mathematician, academic, and inventor. Nemeth was blind, and was known for developing a system for blind people to read and write mathematics. Pic search.


|File:Edward Lorenz.jpg|link=Edward Lorenz (nonfiction)|1998: Mathematician [[Edward Lorenz (nonfiction)|Edward Lorenz]] awarded Pulitzer Prize for advances in [[high-energy literature]] theory.
|File:Epic of Gilgamesh tablet V.jpg|link=Literature (nonfiction)|1999: [[Literature (nonfiction)|Gilgamesh tablet]] unhappy about missing sections, demands [[high-energy literature]] therapy.
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  • 1588: Philosopher and scientist Bernardino Telesio dies. While his natural theories were later disproven, his emphasis on observation influenced the emergence of the scientific method.

    1588: Philosopher and scientist Bernardino Telesio dies. While his natural theories were later disproven, his emphasis on observation influenced the emergence of the scientific method.

  • 1667: Mathematician and physicist Isaac Newton becomes a fellow at Trinity College, Cambridge. He had earned his bachelor's degree in 1665 and then spent two years at home in Lincolnshire inventing much of differential and integral calculus while Cambridge was closed due to plague.

    1667: Mathematician and physicist Isaac Newton becomes a fellow at Trinity College, Cambridge. He had earned his bachelor's degree in 1665 and then spent two years at home in Lincolnshire inventing much of differential and integral calculus while Cambridge was closed due to plague.

  • 1853: Mathematician and politician François Arago born. He observed that a rotating plate of copper tends to communicate its motion to a magnetic needle suspended over it, an effect now known as eddy current.

    1853: Mathematician and politician François Arago born. He observed that a rotating plate of copper tends to communicate its motion to a magnetic needle suspended over it, an effect now known as eddy current.

  • 1925: John Logie Baird performs the first test of a working television system.

    1925: John Logie Baird performs the first test of a working television system.

  • 1955: ENIAC retired. After disassembly, parts of the Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer, the first general purpose electronic computer, were shipped to the Smithsonian for display.

    1955: ENIAC retired. After disassembly, parts of the Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer, the first general purpose electronic computer, were shipped to the Smithsonian for display.

  • 2006: Mathematician and academic Paul Halmos dies. He made fundamental advances in the areas of mathematical logic, probability theory, statistics, operator theory, ergodic theory, and functional analysis (in particular, Hilbert spaces).

    2006: Mathematician and academic Paul Halmos dies. He made fundamental advances in the areas of mathematical logic, probability theory, statistics, operator theory, ergodic theory, and functional analysis (in particular, Hilbert spaces).

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