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File:Thomas Fincke.jpg|link=Thomas Fincke (nonfiction)|1561: Mathematician and physicist [[Thomas Fincke (nonfiction)|Thomas Fincke]] born. He will introduce the modern names of the trigonometric functions tangent and secant.
File:Thomas Fincke.jpg|link=Thomas Fincke (nonfiction)|1561: Mathematician and physicist [[Thomas Fincke (nonfiction)|Thomas Fincke]] born. He will introduce the modern names of the trigonometric functions tangent and secant.
||1607: Guidobaldo del Monte, Marquis del Monte dies ... mathematician, philosopher, and astronomer. Pic.


File:Jacob Bernoulli.jpg|link=Jacob Bernoulli (nonfiction)|1655: Mathematician [[Jacob Bernoulli (nonfiction)|Jacob Bernoulli]] born. He will discover the fundamental mathematical constant ''e'', and make important contributions to the field of probability.
File:Jacob Bernoulli.jpg|link=Jacob Bernoulli (nonfiction)|1655: Mathematician [[Jacob Bernoulli (nonfiction)|Jacob Bernoulli]] born. He will discover the fundamental mathematical constant ''e'', and make important contributions to the field of probability.


||1689 – Seth Ward, English bishop, mathematician, and astronomer (b. 1617)
||1689: Seth Ward dies ... bishop, mathematician, and astronomer. No DOB. Pic.
 
||1692: Francesco Maria Zanotti born ... philosopher and writer.  His 1741 essay on the 'attractive force of ideas' defended a view of the association of ideas influenced by Newtonian physics. Pic search.
 
||1714: Percivall Pott born ...physician and surgeon, one of the founders of orthopedics, and the first scientist to demonstrate that a cancer may be caused by an environmental carcinogen. Pic.
 
||1721: The Committee of Inquiry on the South Sea Bubble publishes its findings.
 
||1731: Étienne François Geoffroy dies ... physician and chemist. Pic.


||Francesco Maria Zanotti Cavazzoni (b. 1692) was an Italian philosopher and writer. His 1741 essay on the 'attractive force of ideas' defended a view of the association of ideas influenced by Newtonian physics.
||1745: Jacques-Etienne Montgolfier born ... co-inventor of the hot air balloon. Pic.


||1721 – The Committee of Inquiry on the South Sea Bubble publishes its findings.
||1795: Anselme Payen born ... chemist and academic ... known for discovering the enzyme diastase, and the carbohydrate cellulose. Pic.


||1731 – Étienne François Geoffroy, French physician and chemist (b. 1672)
File:Erik Laxmann.png|link=Erik Laxmann (nonfiction)|1796: Natural scientist, explorer, and clergyman [[Erik Laxmann (nonfiction)|Erik Laxmann]] dies.  Laxmann contribute to the taxonomy of Siberian fauna, and attempted to establish relations between Imperial Russia and Tokugawa Japan.


||1745 – Jacques-Etienne Montgolfier, French co-inventor of the hot air balloon (d. 1799)
||1807: Joseph Petzval born ... mathematician, inventor, and physicist best known for his work in optics. Pic.


||1795 – Anselme Payen, French chemist and academic (d. 1871)
||1818: Gustav Adolph Kenngott born ... mineralogist. He was the first to describe enstatite, and the disocverer of a new mineral which he named pisanite in honor of Felice Pisani. Pic.


||1807 – Joseph Petzval, German-Hungarian mathematician and physicist (d. 1891)
||1838: Alfred Vail demonstrates a telegraph system using dots and dashes (this is the forerunner of Morse code). Pic.


||Gustav Adolph Kenngott (b. January 6, 1818) was a German mineralogist.
||1841: Friedrich Otto Rudolf Sturm born ... mathematician. Sturm's Theorem is based on finding the complex imaginary roots of an infinite arbitrary-integer series. Pic.


||1838 – Alfred Vail demonstrates a telegraph system using dots and dashes (this is the forerunner of Morse code).
||1842: Clarence King born ... geologist, mountaineer, and critic ... Diamond Hoax. Pic.


||Friedrich Otto Rudolf Sturm (b. 6 January 1841) was a German mathematician. Sturm's Theorem is based on finding the complex imaginary roots of an infinite arbitrary-integer series. Pic.
||1852: Louis Braille dies ... educator, invented Braille.


||1842 – Clarence King, American geologist, mountaineer, and critic (d. 1901) Diamond Hoax
||1884: Gregor Mendel dies ... geneticist and botanist. Pic.


||1852 – Louis Braille, French educator, invented Braille (b. 1809)
||1886: Adhémar Jean Claude Barré de Saint-Venant dies ... mechanician and mathematician who contributed to early stress analysis and also developed the unsteady open channel flow shallow water equations, also known as the Saint-Venant equations that are a fundamental set of equations used in modern hydraulic engineering. Pic.


||1884 – Gregor Mendel, Czech geneticist and botanist (b. 1822)
||1912: German geophysicist Alfred Wegener first presents his theory of continental drift. Pic.


||Adhémar Jean Claude Barré de Saint-Venant (d. 6 January 1886) was a mechanician and mathematician who contributed to early stress analysis and also developed the unsteady open channel flow shallow water equations, also known as the Saint-Venant equations that are a fundamental set of equations used in modern hydraulic engineering. Pic.
||1914: Kenneth Sanborn Pitzer born ... physical and theoretical chemist, educator, and university president. He was described as "one of the most influential physical chemists of his era" whose work "spanned almost all of the important fields of physical chemistry: thermodynamics, statistical mechanics, molecular structure, quantum mechanics, spectroscopy, chemical bonding, relativistic chemical effects, properties of concentrated aqueous salt solutions, kinetics, and conformational analysis." Pic.


||1912 – German geophysicist Alfred Wegener first presents his theory of continental drift.
||1915: John C. Lilly born ... physician, neuroscientist, psychoanalyst, psychonaut, philosopher, writer and inventor. He was a member of a generation of counterculture scientists and thinkers that included Ram Dass, Werner Erhard and Timothy Leary, all frequent visitors to the Lilly home. He often stirred controversy, especially among mainstream scientists. Pic.


File:Georg Cantor 1894.png|link=Georg Cantor (nonfiction)|1918: Mathematician and philosopher [[Georg Cantor (nonfiction)|Georg Cantor]] dies.  He invented [[Set theory (nonfiction)|set theory]], a fundamental area of mathematical inquiry.
File:Georg Cantor 1894.png|link=Georg Cantor (nonfiction)|1918: Mathematician and philosopher [[Georg Cantor (nonfiction)|Georg Cantor]] dies.  He invented [[Set theory (nonfiction)|set theory]], a fundamental area of mathematical inquiry.


||1920 – John Maynard Smith, English biologist and geneticist (d. 2004)
||1920: John Maynard Smith born ... theoretical and mathematical evolutionary biologist and geneticist. Maynard Smith was instrumental in the application of game theory to evolution and theorised on other problems such as the evolution of sex and signalling theory. Pic.
 
||1920: Hieronymus Georg Zeuthen dies ... mathematician. He is known for work on the enumerative geometry of conic sections, algebraic surfaces, and history of mathematics. Pic.
 
||1921: Marianne Grunberg-Manago born ... biochemist and academic. Her work helped make possible key discoveries about the nature of the genetic code. Pic search.
 
||1921: Felix Villars born ... professor of physics at MIT. He is best known for the Pauli–Villars regularization, an important principle in quantum field theory Pic: http://news.mit.edu/2002/villars


||Hieronymus Georg Zeuthen (d. 6 January 1920) was a Danish mathematician. He is known for work on the enumerative geometry of conic sections, algebraic surfaces, and history of mathematics.
||1922: Jakob Rosanes dies ... mathematician and chess player. Rosanes made significant contributions in Cremona transformations. Pic.


||1921 – Marianne Grunberg-Manago, Russian-French biochemist and academic (d. 2013)
||1927: Jesse Leonard Steinfeld born ... physician and academic, 11th Surgeon General of the United States. Pic.


||1922 – Jakob Rosanes, Ukrainian-German mathematician and chess player (b. 1842)
||1920: Eduard Study dies ... mathematician known for work on invariant theory of ternary forms (1889) and for the study of spherical trigonometry. Pic.


||1927 – Jesse Leonard Steinfeld, American physician and academic, 11th Surgeon General of the United States (d. 2014)
||1930: W. Wallace Cleland born ... biochemist and educator ... research was concerned with enzyme reaction mechanism and enzyme kinetics, especially multiple-substrate enzymes. Pic.


||1930 – W. Wallace Cleland, American biochemist and educator (d. 2013)
||1931: Harry Clarke dies ... stained-glass artist and book illustrator. Clarke was a leading figure in the Irish Arts and Crafts Movement. Pic.


File:Thomas Edison.jpg|link=Thomas Edison (nonfiction)|1931: Inventor [[Thomas Edison (nonfiction)|Thomas Edison]] signs his last patent application.
File:Thomas Edison.jpg|link=Thomas Edison (nonfiction)|1931: Inventor [[Thomas Edison (nonfiction)|Thomas Edison]] signs his last patent application.


||1933 – Oleg Grigoryevich Makarov, Russian engineer and astronaut (d. 2003)
||1933: Oleg Grigoryevich Makarov born ... engineer and astronaut. Pic.
 
||1940: Oscar Lanford born ... mathematician working on mathematical physics and dynamical systems theory. Pic.
 
||1945: Vladimir Vernadsky dies ... mineralogist and chemist. Pic.
 
||1955: Susan B. Horwitz born ... computer scientist and academic ... noted for her research on programming languages and software engineering, and in particular on program slicing and dataflow-analysis.  Pic search.
 
||1965: William Bleckwenn dies ... neurologist, psychiatrist, and military physician, who was instrumental in developing the treatment known as "narcoanalysis" or "narcosynthesis", also known by the lay term "truth serum". Pic.
 
||1972: Xavier Vallat dies ... French politician, was Commissioner-General for Jewish Questions in the wartime Vichy collaborationist government, and was sentenced after World War II to ten years in prison for his part in the persecution of French Jews. Pic (freaky eye patch).
 
||1988: Bern Dibner dies ... engineer and science historian who worked as an engineer during the electrification of Cuba. Realizing the need for improved methods of connecting electrical conductors, in 1924, he founded the Burndy Engineering Company. A few years later, he became interested in the history of Renaissance science. Subsequently, he began collecting books and everything he could find that was related to the history of science. This became a second career as a scholar that would run parallel with his life as a businessman. He wrote many books and pamphlets, on topics from the transport of ancient obelisks, to authoritative biographies of many scientific pioneers, including Alessandro Volta, inventor of the electric battery, and Wilhelm Röntgen, discoverer of the X ray. Pic.
 
File:Pavel Cherenkov.jpg|link=Pavel Cherenkov (nonfiction)|1990: Physicist and academic [[Pavel Cherenkov (nonfiction)|Pavel Cherenkov]] dies. Cherenkov shared the 1958 Nobel Prize in physics in 1958 with Ilya Frank and Igor Tamm for the discovery of Cherenkov radiation, made in 1934.


||1945 – Vladimir Vernadsky, Russian mineralogist and chemist (b. 1863)
||1993: Herbert G. MacPherson dies ... nuclear engineer and deputy director of Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL). He contributed to the design and development of nuclear reactors and in the opinion of Alvin Weinberg he was "the country's foremost expert on graphite". Pic: https://www.nap.edu/read/4779/chapter/30


||1955 – Susan B. Horwitz, American computer scientist and academic (d. 2014)
||1998: Otto Schmitt dies ... inventor, engineer, and biophysicist known for his scientific contributions to biophysics and for establishing the field of biomedical engineering. Schmitt also coined the term biomimetics and invented the Schmitt trigger, the cathode follower, the differential amplifier, and the chopper-stabilized amplifier. Pic search.


||1990 – Pavel Cherenkov, Russian physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1904)
||2000: Don Martin dies ... cartoonist. Pic.


||2000 – Don Martin, American cartoonist (b. 1931)
||2004: Thomas Greenway Stockham dies ... scientist who developed one of the first practical digital audio recording systems, and pioneered techniques for digital audio recording and processing as well. Pic.


||2012 – Roger Boisjoly, American aerodynamicist and engineer (b. 1938)
||2012: Roger Boisjoly dies ... aerodynamicist and engineer. He is best known for having raised strenuous objections to the launch of the Space Shuttle Challenger months before the loss of the spacecraft and its crew in January 1986. Boisjoly correctly predicted, based on earlier flight data, that the O-rings on the rocket boosters would fail if the shuttle launched in cold weather. Pic.


|File:John Hoyland Lebanon.jpg|link=John Hoyland (nonfiction)|2015: [[John Hoyland (nonfiction)|John Hoyland's]] ''Lebanon'' spontaneously generates new class of [[Gnomon algorithm]].


File:Color commentators.jpg|link=Color commentator (nonfiction)|2015: [[Color commentator (nonfiction)|Color commentators]] call [[John Hoyland (nonfiction)|John Hoyland's]] ''Lebanon'' "colorful in a way that defies description."
File:Comparison_of_bergamot_oils_using_GC-MS_analysis_with_enantiomeric_column.png|2016: Cold weather depresses [[Bergamot essential oil (nonfiction)|Bergamot oil]] market, industry analysts predict spike in [[Chromatography (nonfiction)|gas chromatography]] prices.
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  • 1561: Mathematician and physicist Thomas Fincke born. He will introduce the modern names of the trigonometric functions tangent and secant.

    1561: Mathematician and physicist Thomas Fincke born. He will introduce the modern names of the trigonometric functions tangent and secant.

  • 1655: Mathematician Jacob Bernoulli born. He will discover the fundamental mathematical constant e, and make important contributions to the field of probability.

    1655: Mathematician Jacob Bernoulli born. He will discover the fundamental mathematical constant e, and make important contributions to the field of probability.

  • 1796: Natural scientist, explorer, and clergyman Erik Laxmann dies. Laxmann contribute to the taxonomy of Siberian fauna, and attempted to establish relations between Imperial Russia and Tokugawa Japan.

    1796: Natural scientist, explorer, and clergyman Erik Laxmann dies. Laxmann contribute to the taxonomy of Siberian fauna, and attempted to establish relations between Imperial Russia and Tokugawa Japan.

  • 1918: Mathematician and philosopher Georg Cantor dies. He invented set theory, a fundamental area of mathematical inquiry.

    1918: Mathematician and philosopher Georg Cantor dies. He invented set theory, a fundamental area of mathematical inquiry.

  • 1931: Inventor Thomas Edison signs his last patent application.

    1931: Inventor Thomas Edison signs his last patent application.

  • 1990: Physicist and academic Pavel Cherenkov dies. Cherenkov shared the 1958 Nobel Prize in physics in 1958 with Ilya Frank and Igor Tamm for the discovery of Cherenkov radiation, made in 1934.

    1990: Physicist and academic Pavel Cherenkov dies. Cherenkov shared the 1958 Nobel Prize in physics in 1958 with Ilya Frank and Igor Tamm for the discovery of Cherenkov radiation, made in 1934.

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