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||1553: Lucas Cranach the Elder dies ... painter and engraver.
||1553: Lucas Cranach the Elder dies ... painter and engraver.
File:Leonardo Draws Clock Head.jpg|link=Leonardo Draws Clock Head|1584: Famed illustration ''[[Leonardo Draws Clock Head]]'' is "a reasonably accurate depiction of events as I remember them", says artist, inventor, and math detective [[Leonardo da Vinci]].


||1600: Nicolaus Reimers dies ... astronomer. Pic search (book cover, diagram): https://www.google.com/search?q=Nicolaus+Reimers
||1600: Nicolaus Reimers dies ... astronomer. Pic search (book cover, diagram): https://www.google.com/search?q=Nicolaus+Reimers


File:Delmedigo.jpg|link=Joseph Solomon Delmedigo (nonfiction)|1655: Physician, mathematician, and theorist [[Joseph Solomon Delmedigo (nonfiction)|Joseph Solomon Delmedigo]] dies. His ''Elim'' (Palms) deals with astronomy, physics, mathematics, medicine, metaphysics, and music theory.
File:Delmedigo.jpg|link=Joseph Solomon Delmedigo (nonfiction)|1655: Physician, mathematician, and theorist [[Joseph Solomon Delmedigo (nonfiction)|Joseph Solomon Delmedigo]] dies. His ''Elim'' (Palms) deals with astronomy, physics, mathematics, medicine, metaphysics, and music theory.
||1708: Anatomist, physiologist, naturalist, encyclopedist, bibliographer and poet Albrecht von Haller born. Von Haller is often referred to as "the father of modern physiology." Pic.


||1758: Noah Webster born ... lexicographer. Pic.
||1758: Noah Webster born ... lexicographer. Pic.
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||1846: William T. G. Morton first demonstrated ether anesthesia at the Massachusetts General Hospital in the Ether Dome.
||1846: William T. G. Morton first demonstrated ether anesthesia at the Massachusetts General Hospital in the Ether Dome.
File:Gustav Robert Kirchhoff.jpg|link=Gustav Kirchhoff (nonfiction)|1868: Physicist and crime-fighter [[Gustav Kirchhoff (nonfiction)|Gustav Kirchhoff]] uses the emission of black-body radiation by heated objects to detect and prevent [[crimes against physical constants]].


||1869: John Herbert de Paz Thorold Gosset born ... lawyer and an amateur mathematician. In mathematics, he is noted for discovering and classifying the semiregular polytopes in dimensions four and higher. No DOD. No pic online.
||1869: John Herbert de Paz Thorold Gosset born ... lawyer and an amateur mathematician. In mathematics, he is noted for discovering and classifying the semiregular polytopes in dimensions four and higher. No DOD. No pic online.


||1869: The Cardiff Giant, one of the most famous American hoaxes, is "discovered".
||1869: The Cardiff Giant, one of the most famous American hoaxes, is "discovered".
||1878: Franz Reichelt born - tailor, inventor and parachuting pioneer, now sometimes referred to as the Flying Tailor, who is remembered for jumping to his death from the Eiffel Tower while testing a wearable parachute of his own design. Pic.


||1879: Philip Edward Bertrand Jourdain born ...logician.  He took a close interest in the paradoxes related to Russell's paradox, formulating the card paradox version of the liar paradox. Near the end of his life he became increasingly obsessed by trying to prove the axiom of choice, and published several incorrect proofs of it. Littlewood (1986, p.129) describes Jourdain on his deathbed still arguing with him about his (incorrect) proof of the axiom of choice. Pic: http://www.learn-math.info/mathematicians/historyDetail.htm?id=Jourdain
||1879: Philip Edward Bertrand Jourdain born ...logician.  He took a close interest in the paradoxes related to Russell's paradox, formulating the card paradox version of the liar paradox. Near the end of his life he became increasingly obsessed by trying to prove the axiom of choice, and published several incorrect proofs of it. Littlewood (1986, p.129) describes Jourdain on his deathbed still arguing with him about his (incorrect) proof of the axiom of choice. Pic: http://www.learn-math.info/mathematicians/historyDetail.htm?id=Jourdain
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||1918: Abraham Nemeth born ... mathematician, academic, and inventor. Nemeth was blind, and was known for developing a system for blind people to read and write mathematics. Pic: https://www.google.com/search?q=abraham+nemeth
||1918: Abraham Nemeth born ... mathematician, academic, and inventor. Nemeth was blind, and was known for developing a system for blind people to read and write mathematics. Pic: https://www.google.com/search?q=abraham+nemeth


||1923: Cyril Andrew Ponnamperuma born ... scientist in the fields of chemical evolution and the origin of life.
||1923: Cyril Ponnamperuma born ... scientist in the fields of chemical evolution and the origin of life. Pic.


||1925: Mór Réthy (or Moritz Réthy) dies - mathematician. Pic.
||1925: Mór Réthy (or Moritz Réthy) dies - mathematician. Pic.
||1930: John Polkinghorne born - theoretical physicist, theologian, and Anglican priest. A prominent and leading voice explaining the relationship between science and religion. Pic.


||1937: William Sealy Gosset dies ... statistician. He published under the pen name Student, and developed the Student's t-distribution. Pic.
||1937: William Sealy Gosset dies ... statistician. He published under the pen name Student, and developed the Student's t-distribution. Pic.
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||1948: Karen Wetterhahn born ... chemist and academic born ... mercury poison death. Pic.
||1948: Karen Wetterhahn born ... chemist and academic born ... mercury poison death. Pic.


File:Nicholas Metropolis.png|link=Nicholas Metropolis (nonfiction)|1963: Mathematician and physicist [[Nicholas Metropolis (nonfiction)|Nicholas Metropolis]] publishes new class of [[Gnomon algorithm functions]] which he derived using the Monte Carlo method. He will soon use these new functions to detect and prevent [[crimes against mathematical constants]].
||1958: Mike Muuss dies ... computer programmer, created Ping. Pic.


||1964: With the success of the nuclear weapons test named "596", China became the world's fifth nuclear power. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/596_(nuclear_test)
||1964: With the success of the nuclear weapons test named "596", China became the world's fifth nuclear power. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/596_(nuclear_test)
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||1970: Shoichi Sakata dies ... physicist who was internationally known for theoretical work on the structure of the atom. He proposed the Sakata model, which was an early precursor to the quark model. After the end of World War II, he joined other physicists in campaigning for the peaceful uses of nuclear power. Pic.
||1970: Shoichi Sakata dies ... physicist who was internationally known for theoretical work on the structure of the atom. He proposed the Sakata model, which was an early precursor to the quark model. After the end of World War II, he joined other physicists in campaigning for the peaceful uses of nuclear power. Pic.
File:Sakata Shoichi.jpg|link=Shoichi Sakata (nonfiction)|1970: Physicist [[Shoichi Sakata (nonfiction)|Shoichi Sakata]] dies. Sakata contributed theoretical work on the structure of the atom, proposing the Sakata model, an early precursor to the quark model. After World War II he campaigned for the peaceful uses of nuclear power.


||1973: Henry Kissinger and Lê Đức Thọ are awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
||1973: Henry Kissinger and Lê Đức Thọ are awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
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||2012: The extrasolar planet Alpha Centauri Bb is discovered.
||2012: The extrasolar planet Alpha Centauri Bb is discovered.
File:Taffy Bomb.jpg|link=Taffy Bomb (nonfiction)|2017: Spectrographic analysis of ''[[Taffy Bomb (nonfiction)|Taffy Bomb]]'' reveals "at least two, possibly three" previously unknown shades of the color [[Pink (nonfiction)|pink]].


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  • 1655: Physician, mathematician, and theorist Joseph Solomon Delmedigo dies. His Elim (Palms) deals with astronomy, physics, mathematics, medicine, metaphysics, and music theory.

    1655: Physician, mathematician, and theorist Joseph Solomon Delmedigo dies. His Elim (Palms) deals with astronomy, physics, mathematics, medicine, metaphysics, and music theory.

  • 1797: Carl Friedrich Gauss records in his diary that he has discovered a new proof of the Pythagorean Theorem.

    1797: Carl Friedrich Gauss records in his diary that he has discovered a new proof of the Pythagorean Theorem.

  • 1843: Sir William Rowan Hamilton comes up with the idea of quaternions, a non-commutative extension of complex numbers.

    1843: Sir William Rowan Hamilton comes up with the idea of quaternions, a non-commutative extension of complex numbers.

  • 1970: Physicist Shoichi Sakata dies. Sakata contributed theoretical work on the structure of the atom, proposing the Sakata model, an early precursor to the quark model. After World War II he campaigned for the peaceful uses of nuclear power.

    1970: Physicist Shoichi Sakata dies. Sakata contributed theoretical work on the structure of the atom, proposing the Sakata model, an early precursor to the quark model. After World War II he campaigned for the peaceful uses of nuclear power.

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