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||1441 – Roger Bolingbroke, English cleric, astronomer, astrologer, magister and alleged necromancer
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||1571 – Hippolytus Guarinonius, Italian physician and polymath (d. 1654)
||1441: Roger Bolingbroke, English cleric, astronomer, astrologer, magister and alleged necromancer. No DOB. Pic search unlikely: https://www.google.com/search?q=roger+bolingbroke


||1647 – Pierre Bayle, French philosopher and author (d. 1706)
||1571: Hippolytus Guarinonius born ... physician and polymath. Pic.
 
||1647: Pierre Bayle born ... philosopher and writer best known for his seminal work the Historical and Critical Dictionary, publication beginning in 1697. Bayle was a French Calvinist. As a forerunner of the Encyclopedists and an advocate of the principle of toleration, his works subsequently influenced the development of the Enlightenment. Pic.


File:Bartolomeu Lourenço de Gusmão.jpg|link=Bartolomeu de Gusmão (nonfiction)|1724: Inventor and priest [[Bartolomeu de Gusmão (nonfiction)|Bartolomeu de Gusmão]] dies.
File:Bartolomeu Lourenço de Gusmão.jpg|link=Bartolomeu de Gusmão (nonfiction)|1724: Inventor and priest [[Bartolomeu de Gusmão (nonfiction)|Bartolomeu de Gusmão]] dies.


||1727 – Philibert Commerson, French physician and explorer (d. 1773)
||1727: Philibert Commerson born ... physician and explorer. Pic.
 
||1787: Louis Daguerre born ... physicist and photographer, developed the daguerreotype. Pic.
 
||1821: Johann Jacob Schweppe dies ... watchmaker and amateur scientist who developed the first practical process to manufacture bottled carbonated mineral water, based on a process discovered by Joseph Priestley in 1767.  Pic.
 
||1830: Adam Weishaupt dies ... philosopher and academic, founded the Illuminati. Pic.
 
File:Johannes Bosscha.jpg|link=Johannes Bosscha (nonfiction)|1831: Physicist [[Johannes Bosscha (nonfiction)|Johannes Bosscha Jr.]] born. He will make important investigations on galvanic polarization and the rapidity of sound waves; he will be one of the first (1855) to suggest the possibility of sending two messages simultaneously over the same wire.
 
||1832: Baron Nils Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld ... Finnish baron, geologist, mineralogist and Arctic explorer. He was a member of the prominent Finland-Swedish Nordenskiöld family of scientists. Pic.
 
||1833: Hugh Ronalds dies ... nurseryman who cultivated and documented 300 varieties of apples. Pic search tombstone.
 
||1839: August Kundt born ... physicist and educator. Pic.
 
||1844: Friedrich Heinrich Albert Wangerin born ... mathematician. Pic.
 
File:Mark Twain by Abdullah Frères, 1867.jpg|link=Mark Twain (nonfiction)|1865: [[Mark Twain (nonfiction)|Mark Twain]]'s short story "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County" is published in ''The Saturday Press''.
 
||1887: Gustav Theodor Fechner dies ... philosopher, physicist and experimental psychologist. An early pioneer in experimental psychology and founder of psychophysics, he inspired many 20th century scientists and philosophers. He is also credited with demonstrating the non-linear relationship between psychological sensation and the physical intensity of a stimulus via the formula: {\displaystyle S=K\ln I} {\displaystyle S=K\ln I}, which became known as the Weber–Fechner law. Pic.
 
||1889: Attilio Palatini dies ... mathematician born in Treviso. He worked in absolute differential calculus and in general relativity. Within this latter subject he gave a sound generalization of the variational principle. Pic.
 
||1897: Patrick Blackett born ... physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate ... known for his work on cloud chambers, cosmic rays, and paleomagnetism, winning the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1948.[5] In 1925 he became the first person to prove that radioactivity could cause the nuclear transmutation of one chemical element to another. Pic.
 
||1900: George Bogdanovich Kistiakowsky born ... physical chemistry professor at Harvard who participated in the Manhattan Project and later served as President Dwight D. Eisenhower's Science Advisor. Pic.
 
||1901: George Gallup born ... statistician and academic. Pic.


||1787 – Louis Daguerre, French physicist and photographer, developed the daguerreotype (d. 1851)
||1906: George Wald born ... neurobiologist and academic ... studied pigments in the retina. Share the 1967 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Haldan Keffer Hartline and Ragnar Granit. Pic.


||1830 – Adam Weishaupt, German philosopher and academic, founded the Illuminati (b. 1748)
||1913: Mathematician and politician Alessandro Faedo born ... known for his work in numerical analysis, leading to the Faedo–Galerkin method: he was one of the pupils of Leonida Tonelli and, after his death, he succeeded him on the chair of mathematical analysis at the University of Pisa, becoming dean of the faculty of sciences and then rector and exerting a strong positive influence on the development of the university. Pic.


||1839 – August Kundt, German physicist and educator (d. 1894)
||1919: Mathematician [[Adolf Hurwitz (nonfiction)|Adolf Hurwitz]] died.  He worked on algebra, analysis, geometry and number theory. Pic.


||1865 – Mark Twain's short story "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County" is published in the New York Saturday Press.
||1922: Lawrence Christian Biedenharn, Jr. born ... theoretical nuclear physicist and mathematical physicist, a leading expert on applications of Lie group theory to physics. Biedenharn studied at MIT with an interruption in World War II from 1942 to 1946 as a lieutenant in the Signal Corps in the Pacific theater, where in 1946 he was stationed in Tokyo for a year as a radio officer. He received his bachelor's degree in absentia from MIT. Pic search.


||1897 – Patrick Blackett, Baron Blackett, English physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1974)
||1924: Lucien Marie Le Cam born ... mathematician and statistician. Pic.  


||1901 – George Gallup, American statistician and academic (d. 1984)
||1926: Dennis William Siahou Sciama born ... physicist who, through his own work and that of his students, played a major role in developing British physics after the Second World War. He is considered one of the fathers of modern cosmology. Pic.


||1906 – George Wald, American neurobiologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1997)
||1928: Release of the animated short Steamboat Willie, the first fully synchronized sound cartoon, directed by Walt Disney and Ub Iwerks, featuring the third appearances of cartoon characters Mickey Mouse and Minnie Mouse. This is considered by the Disney corporation to be Mickey's birthday.


||1928 – Release of the animated short Steamboat Willie, the first fully synchronized sound cartoon, directed by Walt Disney and Ub Iwerks, featuring the third appearances of cartoon characters Mickey Mouse and Minnie Mouse. This is considered by the Disney corporation to be Mickey's birthday.
||1932: Frederick Jelinek born ... researcher in information theory, automatic speech recognition, and natural language processing. He is well known for his oft-quoted statement, "Every time I fire a linguist, the performance of the speech recognizer goes up". Pic search.


||1938 – Trade union members elect John L. Lewis as the first president of the Congress of Industrial Organizations.
||1941: Walther Nernst dies ... chemist and physicist, Nobel Prize laureate. His formulation of the Nernst heat theorem helped pave the way for the third law of thermodynamics, for which he won the 1920 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. Pic.


||1941 – Walther Nernst, German chemist and physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1864)
||1945: Jacob Tamarkin dies ... mathematician best known for his work in mathematical analysis. Pic search yes: https://www.google.com/search?q=Jacob+David+Tamarkin


||1956 – Jim Weirich, American computer scientist, developed Rake Software (d. 2014)
||1956: Jim Weirich born ... computer scientist, developed Rake Software. Pic search: https://www.google.com/search?q=jim+weirich


File:Aleksandr Khinchin.gif|link=Aleksandr Khinchin (nonfiction)|1959: Mathematician and academic [[Aleksandr Khinchin (nonfiction)|Aleksandr Khinchin]] dies. He was one of the founders of modern probability theory.
File:Aleksandr Khinchin.gif|link=Aleksandr Khinchin (nonfiction)|1959: Mathematician and academic [[Aleksandr Khinchin (nonfiction)|Aleksandr Khinchin]] dies. He was one of the founders of modern probability theory.
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File:Niels Bohr.jpg|link=Niels Bohr (nonfiction)|1962: Physicist and philosopher [[Niels Bohr (nonfiction)|Niels Bohr]] born. He will make foundational contributions to understanding atomic structure and quantum theory, for which he will receive the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1922.
File:Niels Bohr.jpg|link=Niels Bohr (nonfiction)|1962: Physicist and philosopher [[Niels Bohr (nonfiction)|Niels Bohr]] born. He will make foundational contributions to understanding atomic structure and quantum theory, for which he will receive the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1922.


||1963 – The first push-button telephone goes into service.
||1963: The first push-button telephone goes into service.
 
||1978: In Jonestown, Guyana, Jim Jones led his Peoples Temple to a mass murder–suicide that claimed 918 lives in all, 909 of them in Jonestown itself, including over 270 children. Congressman Leo Ryan is murdered by members of the Peoples Temple hours earlier.
 
||1993: Joseph E. Gillis dies ... mathematician and academic. He contributed to fractal sets, fluid dynamics, random walks, and pioneered the combinatorial theory of special functions of mathematical physics. Pic: https://www.google.com/search?q=joseph+gillis+mathematician
 
||1994: Nathan Jacob Fine ies ... mathematician who worked on basic hypergeometric series. He solved the Jeep problem in 1946. Pic: http://www.ams.org/notices/199506/fine.pdf
 
||2004: Robert Bacher dies ... physicist and academic ... one of the leaders of the Manhattan Project. Pic.
 
||2007: Sidney Richard Coleman dies ... theoretical physicist who studied under Murray Gell-Mann. He is noted for his research in high-energy theoretical physics. Pic.


||1978 – In Jonestown, Guyana, Jim Jones led his Peoples Temple to a mass murder–suicide that claimed 918 lives in all, 909 of them in Jonestown itself, including over 270 children. Congressman Leo Ryan is murdered by members of the Peoples Temple hours earlier.
File:MAVEN spacecraft.jpg|link=MAVEN (nonfiction)|2013: NASA launches the [[MAVEN (nonfiction)|MAVEN probe]] to Mars.


||2004 – Robert Bacher, American physicist and academic (b. 1905)
||2016: Jay Wright Forrester dies ... pioneering American computer engineer and systems scientist. He was a professor at the MIT Sloan School of Management. Forrester is known as the founder of system dynamics, which deals with the simulation of interactions between objects in dynamic systems. Pic.


||2013 – NASA launches the MAVEN probe to Mars.
||2016: Surgeon Denton Arthur Cooley dies.  Cooley performed the first implantation of a total artificial heart. Pic.


File:Jekyll_Perfume.png|link=Jekyll (perfume)|2017: [[Jekyll (perfume)|Jekyll]], the "fragrance for sociopaths", announces record sales.
File:Dennis_Paulson_of_Mars.jpg|link=Dennis Paulson of Mars|2017: [[Dennis Paulson of Mars|Dennis Paulson]] celebrates fourth anniversary of NASA launching the [[MAVEN (nonfiction)|MAVEN probe]] to [[Mars (nonfiction)|Mars]].


|File:Gheorghe Marinescu science film 1899.jpg|link=Documentary film (nonfiction)|[[Documentary film (nonfiction)|Documentary film]] says it is not ready to retire.
|File:Do_Not_Tease_Monster_by_Karl_Jones_800x600.jpg|link=Do Not Tease Monster (nonfiction)|''[[Do Not Tease Monster]]'' means what it says, warn experts.
|File:Azerbaijan-monster-wants-lapilli-soup.jpg|link=[[Lapilli soup]]|[[Lapilli soup]] is "best soup in the world," according to new survey of [[Monster (nonfiction)|monsters]].
|File:Kells genealogy of Christ.jpg|link=Uncial script (nonfiction)|[[Uncial script (nonfiction)|Uncial script]] poised for comeback, according to computational typography theory.
|File:Lightning striking the Eiffel Tower - NOAA.jpg|link=Lightning (nonfiction)|[[Lightning (nonfiction)|Lightning]] apologizes for striking Eiffel tower.
|File:Hypercube.svg|link=The Boxes|Supervillain [[The Boxes]] announces plan to destroy the world "for its own good."
|File:Thomas Carlyle manuscript burning Japan.png|link=Writer (nonfiction)|[[Writer (nonfiction)|Writer]] appalled by self-immolation of book.
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  • 1724: Inventor and priest Bartolomeu de Gusmão dies.

    1724: Inventor and priest Bartolomeu de Gusmão dies.

  • 1831: Physicist Johannes Bosscha Jr. born. He will make important investigations on galvanic polarization and the rapidity of sound waves; he will be one of the first (1855) to suggest the possibility of sending two messages simultaneously over the same wire.

    1831: Physicist Johannes Bosscha Jr. born. He will make important investigations on galvanic polarization and the rapidity of sound waves; he will be one of the first (1855) to suggest the possibility of sending two messages simultaneously over the same wire.

  • 1865: Mark Twain's short story "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County" is published in The Saturday Press.

    1865: Mark Twain's short story "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County" is published in The Saturday Press.

  • 1959: Mathematician and academic Aleksandr Khinchin dies. He was one of the founders of modern probability theory.

    1959: Mathematician and academic Aleksandr Khinchin dies. He was one of the founders of modern probability theory.

  • 1962: Physicist and philosopher Niels Bohr born. He will make foundational contributions to understanding atomic structure and quantum theory, for which he will receive the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1922.

    1962: Physicist and philosopher Niels Bohr born. He will make foundational contributions to understanding atomic structure and quantum theory, for which he will receive the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1922.

  • 2013: NASA launches the MAVEN probe to Mars.

    2013: NASA launches the MAVEN probe to Mars.

  • 2017: Dennis Paulson celebrates fourth anniversary of NASA launching the MAVEN probe to Mars.

    2017: Dennis Paulson celebrates fourth anniversary of NASA launching the MAVEN probe to Mars.

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