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||1647 – Evangelista Torricelli, Italian physicist and mathematician (b. 1608)
File:Evangelista Torricelli by Lorenzo Lippi.jpg|link=Evangelista Torricelli (nonfiction)|1647: Physicist and mathematician [[Evangelista Torricelli (nonfiction)|Evangelista Torricelli]] dies. He invented the barometer, made advances in optics, and worked on the method of indivisibles.


||1733 – Giovanni Girolamo Saccheri, Italian priest, mathematician, and philosopher (b. 1667)
File:Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz.jpg|link=Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (nonfiction)|1713: [[Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (nonfiction)|Gottfried Leibniz]], in a letter to Johann Bernoulli, observed that an alternating series whose terms monotonically decrease to zero in absolute value is convergent.


||1811 – Évariste Galois, French mathematician and theorist (d. 1832)
||1733: Giovanni Girolamo Saccheri dies ... priest, mathematician, and philosopher. Pic.


||1840 – Helen Blanchard, American inventor (d. 1922) sewing machines
||1786: Charles Mason dies ... astronomer who made significant contributions to 18th-century science and American history, particularly through his involvement with the survey of the Mason–Dixon line


||1910 – William Higinbotham, American physicist and video game designer (d. 1994)
||1789: Samuel Heinrich Schwabe born ... astronomer remembered for his work on sunspots. Pic.


||1915 – Ivan M. Niven, Canadian-American mathematician and academic (d. 1999)
||1790: Robert Stirling born ... clergyman, and inventor of the Stirling engine. Pic.
 
||1802: Joseph Montferrand born ... logger and strongman ... inspiration for the legendary Ottawa Valley figure Big Joe Mufferaw. Pic.
 
||1811: Évariste Galois born ... mathematician and theorist. Pic.
 
||1827: Pierre Eugène Marcellin Berthelot born ... chemist and politician noted for the Thomsen–Berthelot principle of thermochemistry. He synthesized many organic compounds from inorganic substances, providing a large amount of counterevidence to the theory of Jöns Jakob Berzelius that organic compounds required organisms in their synthesis. Pic.
 
||1836: Philippe Pinel dies ... physician and psychiatrist. Pic.
 
||1840: Helen Blanchard born ... inventor ... sewing machines. Pic.
 
||1875: Gilbert N. Lewis born ... physical chemist known for the discovery of the covalent bond and his concept of electron pairs; his Lewis dot structures and other contributions to valence bond theory have shaped modern theories of chemical bonding. Pic.
 
||1877: Henry Norris Russell born ... astronomer who, along with Ejnar Hertzsprung, developed the Hertzsprung–Russell diagram (1910). Pic.
 
||1884: Philip S. Van Cise born ... U.S. Army colonel, crimebusting district attorney, and private practice lawyer in Denver, Colorado. He is best known for arresting and prosecuting the notorious "Million-Dollar Bunco Ring" headed by Lou Blonger, a story he recounted in his book ''Fighting the Underworld''. No pic online.
 
||1886: Lester Randolph Ford Sr. born ... mathematician.
 
||1900: Gottlob "Espe" Espenlaub born ... inventor who specialized in early types of aircraft, specifically gliders and rocket propulsion systems designed for them. He invented a number of different aircraft, focusing on tailless designs. Pic.
 
||1904: Georgi Delchev Bradistilov born ... mathematician. Pic.
 
||1910: William Higinbotham born ... physicist, member of the team that developed the first nuclear bomb, he later became a leader in the nonproliferation movement.  Also: video game designer. Pic search.
 
||1910: Mathematician and logician Gholam Hossein Mosaheb born. Pic. Birth/death dates confusion, see: http://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/mosaheb-gholam-hosayn
 
||1915: Ivan Morton Niven dies ... mathematician, specializing in number theory.  Pic.


File:Peter_Naur.jpg|link=Peter Naur (nonfiction)|1928: Computer scientist, astronomer, and academic [[Peter Naur (nonfiction)|Peter]] Naur born. He will contribute to the design, structure, and performance of computer programs and algorithms.
File:Peter_Naur.jpg|link=Peter Naur (nonfiction)|1928: Computer scientist, astronomer, and academic [[Peter Naur (nonfiction)|Peter]] Naur born. He will contribute to the design, structure, and performance of computer programs and algorithms.


||1944 – Heinrich Himmler orders a crackdown on the Edelweiss Pirates, a loosely organized youth culture in Nazi Germany that had assisted army deserters and others to hide from the Third Reich.
||1929: Astronomer and academic Roger John Tayler born. astronomer. In his scientific work, Professor Tayler made important contributions to stellar structure and evolution, plasma stability, nucleogenesis and cosmology. Pic search.
 
||1933: Friedrich Heinrich Albert Wangerin dies ... mathematician. Pic.
 
||1934: Hermann Ganswindt dies ... inventor and spaceflight scientist, whose inventions (such as the dirigible, the helicopter, and the internal combustion engine) are thought to have been ahead of his time. Pic.
 
||1944: Heinrich Himmler orders a crackdown on the Edelweiss Pirates, a loosely organized youth culture in Nazi Germany that had assisted army deserters and others to hide from the Third Reich.
 
||1949: Mary Acworth Evershed dies ... astronomer and Dante scholar.  Pic search.
 
|File:Tunguska-Preservation-TV.jpg|link=Tunguska Event Preservation Society|1962: The [[Tunguska Event Preservation Society]] launches fundraiser to simulate the 1927 Tunguska expedition.
 
||1883: Karl von Terzaghi born ... geologist and engineer. Pic.
 
||1971: Mikhail Yangel dies ... leading missile designer in the Soviet Union. Pic.
 
||1987: John Ashworth Ratcliffe dies ... radio physicist. Pic search.
 
||1997: Mina Spiegel Rees dies ... mathematician. She was a pioneer in the history of computing and helped establish funding streams and institutional infrastructure for research. Pic.


||1949 – Mary Ackworth Orr Evershed, English astronomer and Dante scholar (b. 1867)
||1996: Ennio De Giorgi dies ... mathematician, member of the House of Giorgi, who worked on partial differential equations and the foundations of mathematics. Pic.


File:Tunguska-Preservation-TV.jpg|link=Tunguska Event Preservation Society|1962: The [[Tunguska Event Preservation Society]] launches fundraiser to simulate the 1927 Tunguska expedition.
||2002: René Thom dies ... mathematician and biologist. Pic.


||2002 – René Thom, French mathematician and biologist (b. 1923)
||2011:  Scientists in California and Sweden have solved a 250-year-old mystery — a coded manuscript written by a secret society.  The University of Southern California announced Tuesday, Oct 25th, that researchers had broken the Copiale Cipher — the writing used in a 105-page 18th century document from Germany. Pic.


|File:Brainiac Explains Lecture Series (Dominic Yeso).jpg|link=Brainiac Explains|2016: New study reveals that the [[Brainiac Explains]] lecture series is explains why [[Brainiac skull diodes (nonfiction)|skull diodes]] are essential to well-ordered computation.
|File:Halting_problem.svg|link=Halting problem (nonfiction)|1985: [[Halting problem (nonfiction)|Halting problem]] is delicious, says supervillain [[Forbidden Ratio]].
|File:Rule 90 trees.svg|link=Cellular automaton (nonfiction)|1986: New version of [[Bernoulli family (nonfiction)|Bernoulli family tree]] powered by [[Cellular automaton (nonfiction)|cellular automata]].
|File:Bourbaki_virages_dangereux_fruiting_body.jpg|link=Outsider mathematics|1997: Fruiting body of ''Bourbaki virages dangereux'' nominated as symbol of [[Outsider mathematics|outsider mathematics]].
|File:Fugitive_Rubies_interrogation_800x600.jpg|link=Fugitive Rubies|2000: Captured supervillain [[Fugitive Rubies]] involuntarily luminesces under green laser interrogation, re-emits red light.
|File:Papillon_book_cover.jpg|link=Papillon (nonfiction)|2001: Re-emitted red light suggests that [[Fugitive Rubies]] is secretly manipulating ''[[Papillon (nonfiction)|Papillon]]'', say [[High-energy literature|High-energy literature theorists]].
|File:Mandelbrot set command line depiction.png|link=Mandelbrot set (nonfiction)|2013: Line printer [[Mandelbrot set (nonfiction)|Mandelbrot set]] yearns for color, launches Kickstarter campaign to fund upgrade.
|File:Brainiac head.png|link=Brainiac skull diodes (nonfiction)|2015: Second-hand [[Brainiac skull diodes (nonfiction)|Brainiac skull diodes]] is actually secret hideout of supervillain [[Fugitive Rubies]].
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  • 1647: Physicist and mathematician Evangelista Torricelli dies. He invented the barometer, made advances in optics, and worked on the method of indivisibles.

    1647: Physicist and mathematician Evangelista Torricelli dies. He invented the barometer, made advances in optics, and worked on the method of indivisibles.

  • 1713: Gottfried Leibniz, in a letter to Johann Bernoulli, observed that an alternating series whose terms monotonically decrease to zero in absolute value is convergent.

    1713: Gottfried Leibniz, in a letter to Johann Bernoulli, observed that an alternating series whose terms monotonically decrease to zero in absolute value is convergent.

  • 1928: Computer scientist, astronomer, and academic Peter Naur born. He will contribute to the design, structure, and performance of computer programs and algorithms.

    1928: Computer scientist, astronomer, and academic Peter Naur born. He will contribute to the design, structure, and performance of computer programs and algorithms.

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