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|File:Dionysos kantharos.jpg|link=Dionysus (nonfiction)|500 BC: [[Dionysus (nonfiction)|Dionysus]] gives invites [[Edward Lear (nonfiction)|Edward Lear]] to participate in symposium.
|File:Dionysos kantharos.jpg|link=Dionysus (nonfiction)|500 BC: [[Dionysus (nonfiction)|Dionysus]] gives invites [[Edward Lear (nonfiction)|Edward Lear]] to participate in symposium.
|File:Federico Commandino.jpg|link=Federico Commandino (nonfiction)|1532:  Publication of mathematician [[Federico Commandino (nonfiction)|Federico Commandino]]'s translation of [[Gnomon algorithm]] textbooks from Latin to Arabic.
|File:Federico Commandino.jpg|link=Federico Commandino (nonfiction)|1532:  Publication of mathematician [[Federico Commandino (nonfiction)|Federico Commandino]]'s translation of [[Gnomon algorithm]] textbooks from Latin to Arabic.


File:Paolo Sarpi.jpg|link=Paolo Sarpi (nonfiction)|1620: Statesman, scientist, and crime-fighter [[Paolo Sarpi (nonfiction)|Paolo Sarpi]] discovers evidence which clears the name of fellow crime-fighter [[Galileo Galilei]], who had been falsely accused of anti-scientism.
||1679: Jacques de Billy dies ... mathematician and academic. Pic: book cover.


||1679 – Jacques de Billy, French mathematician and academic (b. 1602)
||1683: Gottfried Silbermann born ... instrument maker. Pic search.


||1683 – Gottfried Silbermann, German instrument maker (d. 1753)
||1684: Johann Matthias Hase born ... mathematician, astronomer, and cartographer. Pic.


||1684 – Johann Matthias Hase, German mathematician, astronomer, and cartographer (d. 1742)
||1806: Matthew Fontaine Maury born ... astronomer, United States Navy officer, historian, oceanographer, meteorologist, cartographer, author, geologist, and educator. Pic.


||1742 – Edmond Halley, English astronomer, geophysicist, mathematician, meteorologist, and physicist (b. 1656)
||1819: James Cockle born ... lawyer and mathematician. He invented the number systems of tessarines and coquaternions, and worked with Arthur Cayley on the theory of linear algebra. Pic.


||1806 – Matthew Fontaine Maury American astronomer, oceanographer, and historian (d. 1873)
||1858: Napoleon III of France escapes an assassination attempt.


||1858 – Napoleon III of France escapes an assassination attempt.
File:Ingres self-portrait.jpg|link=Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres (nonfiction)|1867: Artist [[Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres (nonfiction)|Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres]] dies. He assumed the role of a guardian of academic orthodoxy against the ascendant Romantic style represented by his nemesis, Eugène Delacroix.


File:Ingres self-portrait.jpg|link=Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres (nonfiction)|1867: Artist [[Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres (nonfiction)|Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres]] dies. He assumed the role of a guardian of academic orthodoxy against the ascendant Romantic style represented by his nemesis, Eugène Delacroix.
File:Johann Philipp Reis.jpg|link=Johann Philipp Reis (nonfiction)|1874: Scientist and inventor [[Johann Philipp Reis (nonfiction)|Johann Philipp Reis]] dies. He invented the Reis Telephone.


File:Johann Philipp Reis.jpg|link=|1874: Scientist and inventor [[Johann Philipp Reis (nonfiction)|Johann Philipp Reis]] dies. He invented the Reis Telephone.
||1875: Albert Schweitzer born ... physician and philosopher, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic.


||1875 – Albert Schweitzer, French-Gabonese physician and philosopher, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1965)
||1885: Benjamin Silliman Jr. dies ... professor of chemistry at Yale University and instrumental in developing the oil industry. Pic.


File:Hugo Steinhaus.jpg|link=Hugo Steinhaus (nonfiction)|1887: Mathematician and academic [[Hugo Steinhaus (nonfiction)|Hugo Steinhaus]] born. He will "discover" mathematician Stefan Banach, with whom he will make notable contributions to functional analysis, including the Banach–Steinhaus theorem.
File:Hugo Steinhaus.jpg|link=Hugo Steinhaus (nonfiction)|1887: Mathematician and academic [[Hugo Steinhaus (nonfiction)|Hugo Steinhaus]] born. He will "discover" mathematician Stefan Banach, with whom he will make notable contributions to functional analysis, including the Banach–Steinhaus theorem.
File:Edward Lear.jpg|link=Edward Lear (nonfiction)|1888: Artist, musician, author, and poet [[Edward Lear (nonfiction)|Edward Lear]] invents record number of witticisms.


File:Lewis Carroll.jpg|link=Lewis Carroll (nonfiction)|1898: Novelist, poet, and mathematician [[Lewis Carroll (nonfiction)|Lewis Carroll]] dies. He wrote ''Alice's Adventures in Wonderland'', and its sequel ''Through the Looking-Glass''.
File:Lewis Carroll.jpg|link=Lewis Carroll (nonfiction)|1898: Novelist, poet, and mathematician [[Lewis Carroll (nonfiction)|Lewis Carroll]] dies. He wrote ''Alice's Adventures in Wonderland'', and its sequel ''Through the Looking-Glass''.
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File:Charles Hermite circa 1901.jpg|link=Charles Hermite (nonfiction)|1901: Mathematician [[Charles Hermite (nonfiction)|Charles Hermite]] dies. He did research on number theory, quadratic forms, invariant theory, orthogonal polynomials, elliptic functions, and algebra.
File:Charles Hermite circa 1901.jpg|link=Charles Hermite (nonfiction)|1901: Mathematician [[Charles Hermite (nonfiction)|Charles Hermite]] dies. He did research on number theory, quadratic forms, invariant theory, orthogonal polynomials, elliptic functions, and algebra.


||Cato Maximilian Guldberg (d. 14 January 1902) was a Norwegian mathematician and chemist.
||1902: Cato Maximilian Guldberg dies ... mathematician and chemist. Pic.
 
||1905: Ernst Abbe dies ... physicist and engineer. Pic.
 
||1906: Masao Kotani dies ... theoretical physicist, known for molecular physics and biophysics. Pic.


||1905 – Ernst Abbe, German physicist and engineer (b. 1840)
||1910: Jacob Volhard dies ... chemist who discovered, together with his student Hugo Erdmann, the Volhard-Erdmann cyclization reaction. He was also responsible for the improvement of the Hell-Volhard-Zelinsky halogenation. Pic.


||Masao Kotani (d. 1906) was a Japanese theoretical physicist, known for molecular physics and biophysics.
||1934: Paul Marie Eugène Vieille dies ... chemist and the inventor of modern nitrocellulose-based smokeless gunpowder in 1884. Pic.


||1937 Leo Kadanoff, American physicist and academic (d. 2015)
||1937: Leo Kadanoff born ... physicist and academic. Pic.


||1943 – World War II: Franklin D. Roosevelt becomes the first President of the United States to travel by airplane while in office when he travels from Miami to Morocco to meet with Winston Churchill.
||1938: Gust Avrakotos born ... American case officer and Afghan Task Force Chief for the United States Central Intelligence Agency. Pic.


||1966 – Sergei Korolev, Ukrainian-Russian engineer and academic (b. 1906)
||1943: World War II: Franklin D. Roosevelt becomes the first President of the United States to travel by airplane while in office when he travels from Miami to Morocco to meet with Winston Churchill.


||1967 – Counterculture of the 1960s: The Human Be-In takes place in San Francisco, California's Golden Gate Park, launching the Summer of Love.
||1966: Sergei Korolev dies ... engineer and academic. Pic.


||1970 – William Feller, Croatian-American mathematician and academic (b. 1906)
||1967: Counterculture of the 1960s: The Human Be-In takes place in San Francisco, California's Golden Gate Park, launching the Summer of Love.


||1973 Elvis Presley's concert Aloha from Hawaii is broadcast live via satellite, and sets the record as the most watched broadcast by an individual entertainer in television history.
||1970: William Feller dies ... mathematician and academic. Pic search.
 
||1973: Elvis Presley's concert Aloha from Hawaii is broadcast live via satellite, and sets the record as the most watched broadcast by an individual entertainer in television history.


File:Kurt Gödel.jpg|link=Kurt Gödel (nonfiction)|1978: Mathematician, philosopher, and academic [[Kurt Gödel (nonfiction)|Kurt Gödel]] dies. His two incompleteness theorems had an immense impact upon scientific and philosophical thinking in the 20th century.
File:Kurt Gödel.jpg|link=Kurt Gödel (nonfiction)|1978: Mathematician, philosopher, and academic [[Kurt Gödel (nonfiction)|Kurt Gödel]] dies. His two incompleteness theorems had an immense impact upon scientific and philosophical thinking in the 20th century.


||2014 Milutin Dostanić, Serbian mathematician and academic (b. 1958)
||1997: The discovery in Athens of the lyceum where the philosopher Aristotle taught 2,500 years ago was confirmed by Greece's Minister of Culture. In 335 BC, Aristotle opened a lyceum to rival the academy. For the next 12 years he organised his lyceum as a center for philosophical speculation and scientific research, particularly in biology and history. He died in 324 BC, but 47 of his many works remain, mostly notes used in lyceum lectures. When the discovery was made by archaeologist Ephi Ligouri, the site satisfied all known facts concerning the long-lost location of the lyceum: to the east of the city walls and on the banks of the river Iliso. The excavation was made urgently before building began for a planned museum of modern art.
 
||2000: Clifford Ambrose Truesdell III dies ... mathematician, natural philosopher, and historian of science. Pic.
 
||2001: Burkhard Heim born ... physicist and academic. He devoted a large portion of his life to the pursuit of his unified field theory, Heim theory. Eventually he retreated into almost total seclusion, concentrating on developing and refining his theory of everything. Pic search.
 
||2008: Judah Folkman born ... physician and biologist.  He researched tumor angiogenesis, the process by which a tumor attracts blood vessels to nourish itself and sustain its existence; his worke has led to the discovery of a number of therapies based on inhibiting or stimulating neovascularization. Pic search.
||2014: Milutin Dostanić dies ... mathematician and academic. He contributed to functional analysis and operator theory. Pic.


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