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||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
||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


||1789: Samuel Heinrich Schwabe born ... astronomer remembered for his work on sunspots.
||1789: Samuel Heinrich Schwabe born ... astronomer remembered for his work on sunspots. Pic.


||1790: The Reverend Dr Robert Stirling born ... clergyman, and inventor of the Stirling engine.
||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.
||1811: Évariste Galois born ... mathematician and theorist. Pic.
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||1836: Philippe Pinel dies ... physician and psychiatrist. Pic.
||1836: Philippe Pinel dies ... physician and psychiatrist. Pic.


||1840: Helen Blanchard born ... inventor ... sewing machines.
||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.
||1877: Henry Norris Russell born ... astronomer who, along with Ejnar Hertzsprung, developed the Hertzsprung–Russell diagram (1910). Pic.
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||1904: Georgi Delchev Bradistilov born ... mathematician. Pic.
||1904: Georgi Delchev Bradistilov born ... mathematician. Pic.


||1910: William Higinbotham born ... physicist and video game designer.
||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
||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.
||1915: Ivan Morton Niven dies ... mathematician, specializing in number theory.  Pic.
File:Culvert Origenes.jpg|link=Culvert Origenes|1927: Writer and alleged troll [[Culvert Origenes]] received Pulitzer Prize for his essay on [[Alice Beta]]'s contributions to [[Gnomon algorithm]] theory.
File:Alexey Krylov 1910s.jpg|link=Aleksey Krylov (nonfiction)|1927: Mathematician, naval engineer, and cryptid-hunter [[Aleksey Krylov (nonfiction)|Aleksey Krylov]] publishes his pioneering theory of efficient computation, later known as [[Gnomon algorithm|Krylon's Gnomon algorithm]], which detects and repels aquatic cryptid and alleged supervillain [[Neptune Slaughter]].


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.


||1929: Roger John Tayler born ... astronomer. In his scientific work, Professor Tayler made important contributions to stellar structure and evolution, plasma stability, nucleogenesis and cosmology.
||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.
||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.
||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 iffy: https://www.google.com/search?q=Mary+Acworth+Evershed
||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.
|File:Tunguska-Preservation-TV.jpg|link=Tunguska Event Preservation Society|1962: The [[Tunguska Event Preservation Society]] launches fundraiser to simulate the 1927 Tunguska expedition.


File:Alfred Tarski 1968.jpg|link=Alfred Tarski (nonfiction)|1962: Mathematician and crime-fighter [[Alfred Tarski (nonfiction)|Alfred Tarski]] publishes new theory of metamathematical analysis which quickly finds applications in the detection and prevention of [[crimes against mathematical constants]].
||1883: Karl von Terzaghi born ... geologist and engineer. Pic.
 
||1971: Mikhail Yangel dies ... leading missile designer in the Soviet Union. Pic.


||1971: Mikhail Kuzmich Yangel dies ... leading missile designer in the Soviet Union.
||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.
||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.

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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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