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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.
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||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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