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File:Laurentius Paulinus Gothius.jpg|link=Laurentius Paulinus Gothus (nonfiction)|1565: Theologian, astronomer, astrologer, and Archbishop of Uppsala [[Laurentius Paulinus Gothus (nonfiction)|Laurentius Paulinus Gothus]] born.  
File:Laurentius Paulinus Gothius.jpg|link=Laurentius Paulinus Gothus (nonfiction)|1565: Theologian, astronomer, astrologer, and Archbishop of Uppsala [[Laurentius Paulinus Gothus (nonfiction)|Laurentius Paulinus Gothus]] born.  


||1695: John Bevis born ... physician and astronomer. No pic online.
||1695: John Bevis born ... physician and astronomer, Uranographia. Pic: star chart.


File:William Hogarth.jpg|link=William Hogarth (nonfiction)|1697: Satirist, painter, illustrator, and critic [[William Hogarth (nonfiction)|William Hogarth]] born. His work will range from realistic portraiture to comic strip-like series of pictures called "modern moral subjects".
File:William Hogarth.jpg|link=William Hogarth (nonfiction)|1697: Satirist, painter, illustrator, and critic [[William Hogarth (nonfiction)|William Hogarth]] born. His work will range from realistic portraiture to comic strip-like series of pictures called "modern moral subjects".
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||1935: Igor Dmitriyevich Novikov born ... astronomer, astrophysicist, and cosmologist (alive September 2018).
||1935: Igor Dmitriyevich Novikov born ... astronomer, astrophysicist, and cosmologist (alive September 2018).


||1944: The ammunition ship USS Mount Hood explodes at Seeadler Harbour, Manus, Admiralty Islands, killing at least 432 and wounding 371.
||1944: The ammunition ship USS ''Mount Hood'' explodes at Seeadler Harbour, Manus, Admiralty Islands, killing at least 432 and wounding 371.


||1951: With the rollout of the North American Numbering Plan, direct-dial coast-to-coast telephone service begins in the United States.
||1951: With the rollout of the North American Numbering Plan, direct-dial coast-to-coast telephone service begins in the United States.
||1954: Édouard Le Roy dies ... mathematician and philosopher. Le Roy especially interested himself to the relations between science and morality. Along with Henri Poincaré and Pierre Duhem, he supported a conventionalist thesis on the foundation of mathematics.  Pic search yes: https://www.google.com/search?q=édouard+le+roy&rlz=1C1CHBF_enUS702US702&oq=Édouard+Le+Roy


||1958: The Hope Diamond is donated to the Smithsonian Institution by New York diamond merchant Harry Winston.
||1958: The Hope Diamond is donated to the Smithsonian Institution by New York diamond merchant Harry Winston.
File:Philip G. Hodge.jpg|link=Philip G. Hodge (nonfiction)|1962: Materials engineer, academic, and [[APTO]] field agent [[Philip G. Hodge (nonfiction)|Philip G. Hodge]] discovers a new class of [[Gnomon algorithm]] functions which use piecewise linear isotropic plasticity to detect and neutralize [[geometry solvent]].


File:Klara Dan von Neumann.png|link=Klara Dan von Neumann (nonfiction)|1963: Computer scientist [[Klara Dan von Neumann (nonfiction)|Klara Dan von Neumann]] dies. She was one of the world's first computer programmers and coders, solving mathematical problems using computer code.
File:Klara Dan von Neumann.png|link=Klara Dan von Neumann (nonfiction)|1963: Computer scientist [[Klara Dan von Neumann (nonfiction)|Klara Dan von Neumann]] dies. She was one of the world's first computer programmers and coders, solving mathematical problems using computer code.
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||1988: Mathematician Otto Haupt dies. Pic.
||1988: Mathematician Otto Haupt dies. Pic.


||1990: Mário Schenberg dies ... physicist and academic.
||1990: Mário Schenberg dies ... physicist and academic. Pic.
 
||1994: William Higinbotham dies ... 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: https://www.google.com/search?q=william+higinbotham


||1998: Jean Leray dies ... mathematician, who worked on both partial differential equations and algebraic topology. Pic.
||1998: Jean Leray dies ... mathematician, who worked on both partial differential equations and algebraic topology. Pic.
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||2001: Carl-Gustav Esseen dies ... mathematician. His work was in the theory of probability. The Berry–Esseen theorem is named after him. Pic search: https://www.google.com/search?q=Carl-Gustav+Esseen
||2001: Carl-Gustav Esseen dies ... mathematician. His work was in the theory of probability. The Berry–Esseen theorem is named after him. Pic search: https://www.google.com/search?q=Carl-Gustav+Esseen


||2003: Hans Hermes dies ... mathematician and logician, who made significant contributions to the foundations of mathematical logic. Pic.
File:Hans Hermes.jpg|link=Hans Hermes (nonfiction)|2003: Mathematician and logician [[Hans Hermes (nonfiction)|Hans Hermes]] dies. Hermes contributed to the foundations of mathematical logic; he was also a pioneer of the Turing machine as the central concept of predictability.


||2006: Fokko du Cloux dies ... mathematician and computer scientist.
||2006: Fokko du Cloux dies ... mathematician and computer scientist. He worked on the Atlas of Lie groups and representations until his death. Pic search yes: https://www.google.com/search?q=fokko+du+cloux


||2008: Kiyosi Itô dies ... mathematician and academic. Pic.
||2008: Kiyosi Itô dies ... mathematician and academic. Pic.
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||2015: Klaus Roth dies ... mathematician known for work on diophantine approximation, the large sieve, and irregularities of distribution. Pic.
||2015: Klaus Roth dies ... mathematician known for work on diophantine approximation, the large sieve, and irregularities of distribution. Pic.


||2015: Gene Amdahl dies ... computer scientist, physicist, and engineer, founded the Amdahl Corporation.
||2015: Gene Amdahl dies ... computer scientist, physicist, and engineer, founded the Amdahl Corporation. Pic.
 
Green City Skyline.jpg|link=Green City Skyline (nonfiction)|2016: ''[[Green City Skyline (nonfiction)|Green City Skyline]]'' voted Picture of the Day by the citizens of [[New Minneapolis, Canada]].


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