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| ||1475: Luca Gaurico born ... astrologer. Pic.
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| ||1501: Pietro Andrea Mattioli born ... scientist. No DOD. Pic.
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| File:Cover of Filosofia naturale by Alessandro Piccolomini.jpg|link=Alessandro Piccolomini (nonfiction)|1579: Humanist and philosopher [[Alessandro Piccolomini (nonfiction)|Alessandro Piccolomini]] dies. Piccolomini promoted vernacular translations of Latin and Greek scientific and philosophical treatises. | | File:Cover of Filosofia naturale by Alessandro Piccolomini.jpg|link=Alessandro Piccolomini (nonfiction)|1579: Humanist and philosopher [[Alessandro Piccolomini (nonfiction)|Alessandro Piccolomini]] dies. Piccolomini promoted vernacular translations of Latin and Greek scientific and philosophical treatises. |
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| ||1683: John Theophilus Desaguliers born ... natural philosopher, clergyman, engineer and freemason who was elected to the Royal Society in 1714 as experimental assistant to Isaac Newton. Pic.
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| File:Gustav Robert Kirchhoff.jpg|link=Gustav Kirchhoff (nonfiction)|1824: Physicist and academic [[Gustav Kirchhoff (nonfiction)|Gustav Kirchhoff]] born. He will contribute to the fundamental understanding of electrical circuits, spectroscopy, and the emission of black-body radiation by heated objects. | | File:Gustav Robert Kirchhoff.jpg|link=Gustav Kirchhoff (nonfiction)|1824: Physicist and academic [[Gustav Kirchhoff (nonfiction)|Gustav Kirchhoff]] born. He will contribute to the fundamental understanding of electrical circuits, spectroscopy, and the emission of black-body radiation by heated objects. |
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| ||1832: Charles Friedel born ... chemist and mineralogist. Riedel developed the Friedel-Crafts alkylation and acylation reactions with James Crafts in 1877, and attempted to make synthetic diamonds. Pic.
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| ||1835: Simon Newcomb born ... astronomer and mathematician. Pic.
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| ||1838: William Henry Perkin born ... chemist and entrepreneur best known for his serendipitous discovery of the first synthetic organic dye, mauveine, made from aniline. Though he failed in trying to synthesise quinine for the treatment of malaria, he became successful in the field of dyes after his first discovery at the age of 18. Pic.
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| ||1839: Zerah Colburn dies ... child prodigy of the 19th century who gained fame as a mental calculator. Pic.
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| ||1853: Mathieu Joseph Bonaventure Orfila dies ... toxicologist and chemist, the founder of the science of toxicology. Pic.
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| ||1859: Ernesto Cesàro born ... mathematician who worked in the field of differential geometry. This is his most important contribution, which he described in ''Lezione di geometria intrinseca'' (Naples, 1890). This work contains descriptions of curves which today are eponymously named after him. Pic.
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| ||1863: Vladimir Vernadsky born ... Russian mineralogist and chemist. Pic.
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| ||1864: W. H. R. Rivers born ... anthropologist, neurologist, ethnologist, and psychiatrist ... best known for his work treating First World War officers who were suffering from shell shock. Pic.
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| ||1880: Henry Drysdale Dakin born ... chemist and academic. Pic search: https://www.google.com/search?q=henry+drysdale+dakin
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| ||1881: Gunnar Nordström born ... theoretical physicist best remembered for his theory of gravitation, which was an early competitor of general relativity. Nordström is often designated by modern writers as The Einstein of Finland due to his novel work in similar fields with similar methods to Einstein. Pic.
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| ||1888: Harry Kauper born ... aviation and radio engineer, known for designing the Sopwith-Kauper interrupter mechanism and for his work developing radio broadcasting in Australia. Pic search yes: https://www.google.com/search?q=Harry+Kauper
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| ||1895: John H. Balsley dies ... carpenter and inventor. Pic search yes: https://www.google.com/search?q=john+h.+balsley
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| File:Johann Jakob Balmer.jpg|link=Johann Jakob Balmer (nonfiction)|1898: Mathematician and physicist [[Johann Jakob Balmer (nonfiction)|Johann Jakob Balmer]] dies. He developed an empirical formula for the visible spectral lines of the hydrogen atom. | | File:Johann Jakob Balmer.jpg|link=Johann Jakob Balmer (nonfiction)|1898: Mathematician and physicist [[Johann Jakob Balmer (nonfiction)|Johann Jakob Balmer]] dies. He developed an empirical formula for the visible spectral lines of the hydrogen atom. |
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| ||1904: Lyudmila Keldysh born ... mathematician known for set theory and geometric topology. Pic: https://www.peoplemaven.com/p/8w2rB0/lyudmila-keldysh
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| ||1905: William Allen Whitworth dies ... mathematician and a priest in the Church of England. Pic search: book covers: https://www.google.com/search?q=William+Allen+Whitworth
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| ||1907: Dorrit Hoffleit born ... astronomer and academic. Pic.
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| ||1908: Gianfranco Cimmino born ... mathematician, working mathematical analysis, numerical analysis, and theory of elliptic partial differential equations: he is known for being the first mathematician generalizing in a weak sense the notion of boundary value in a boundary value problem, and for doing an influential work in numerical analysis. Pic search yes: https://www.google.com/search?q=Gianfranco+Cimmino
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| ||1914: George Westinghouse dies ... engineer and businessman. Pic.
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| ||1915: László Fejes Tóth born ... mathematician who specialized in geometry. Together with H.S.M. Coxeter and Paul Erdős, he laid the foundations of discrete geometry. Pic.
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| ||1920: Roland Fraïssé born ... mathematical logician. In his doctoral thesis, Fraïssé used the back-and-forth method to determine whether two model-theoretic structures were elementarily equivalent. This method of determining elementary equivalence was later formulated as the Ehrenfeucht–Fraïssé game. Pic search something: https://www.google.com/search?q=Roland+Fraïssé
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| File:Radium Jane.jpg|link=Radium Jane|1923: Celebrity time-traveller [[Radium Jane]] falls asleep, relapses into her [[Janet Beta]] state.
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| ||1935: Mihajlo Idvorski Pupin dies ... physicist and physical chemist. Pupin is best known for his numerous patents, including a means of greatly extending the range of long-distance telephone communication by placing loading coils (of wire) at predetermined intervals along the transmitting wire (known as "pupinization"). Pic.
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| ||1942: Robert Bosch dies ... engineer and businessman, founded Robert Bosch GmbH. Pic.
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| ||1942: William Henry Bragg dies ... physicist, chemist, and mathematician, Nobel Prize laureate.
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| ||1946: Leonida Tonelli dies ... mathematician, noted for creating Tonelli's theorem, a variation of Fubini's theorem, and for introducing semicontinuity methods as a common tool for the direct method in the calculus of variations. Pic.
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| ||1947: Mary Jean Harrold born ... computer scientist and academic. Pic search yes: https://www.google.com/search?q=mary+jean+harrold
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| ||1949: Wilhelm Steinkopf dies ... chemist ... worked on the production of mustard gas during World War I. Pic search yes: https://www.google.com/search?q=Wilhelm+Steinkopf
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| ||1972: Louis Joel Mordell dies ... mathematician, known for pioneering research in number theory. Pic.
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| ||1984: Edwin Crawford Kemble dies ... physicist who made contributions to the theory of quantum mechanics and molecular structure and spectroscopy. During World War II, he was a consultant to the Navy on acoustic detection of submarines and to the Army on Operation Alsos. Pic search yes: https://www.google.com/search?q=Edwin+C.+Kemble
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| ||1990: Lamberto Cesari dies ... mathematician naturalized in the United States, known for his work on the theory of surface area, the theory of functions of bounded variation, the theory of optimal control and on the stability theory of dynamical systems: in particular, by extending the concept of Tonelli plane variation, he succeeded in introducing the class of functions of bounded variation of several variables in its full generality. Pic.
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| ||1991: Ragnar Granit dies ... neuroscientist and academic ... awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1967 along with Haldan Keffer Hartline and George Wald "for their discoveries concerning the primary physiological and chemical visual processes in the eye". Pic (cool tech!).
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| ||1993: North Korea nuclear weapons program: North Korea says that it plans to withdraw from the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty and refuses to allow inspectors access to its nuclear sites.
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| ||2011: A reactor at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant melts and explodes and releases radioactivity into the atmosphere a day after Japan's earthquake.
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| ||2014: Paul C. Donnelly dies ... scientist and engineer, guided missiles. Pic.
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| File:Lloyd Shapley (1980).jpg|link=Lloyd Shapley (nonfiction)|2016: Mathematician and economist [[Lloyd Shapley (nonfiction)|Lloyd Shapley]] dies. He defined game theory as "a mathematical study of conflict and cooperation." | | File:Lloyd Shapley (1980).jpg|link=Lloyd Shapley (nonfiction)|2016: Mathematician and economist [[Lloyd Shapley (nonfiction)|Lloyd Shapley]] dies. He defined game theory as "a mathematical study of conflict and cooperation." |
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| File:Prisoner's dilemma matrix.svg|link=Game theory (nonfiction)|2016: [[Game theory (nonfiction)|Game theory program]] erases itself, unable to bear the death of [[Lloyd Shapley (nonfiction)|Lloyd Shapley]].
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| File:Blue Green Blossom.jpg|link=Blue Green Blossom (nonfiction)|2016: Signed first edition of ''[[Blue Green Blossom (nonfiction)|Blue Green Blossom]]'' sells for an undisclosed amount to "a prominent mathematician from [[New Minneapolis, Canada]]" in charity auction to benefit victims of [[Evil bit (nonfiction)|evil bit]] crimes.
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| | File:Ultravore.jpg|link=Ultravore|2017: Synthetic organism [[Ultravore]] consumes twenty kilograms of plutonium dust with no apparent ill effect.
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| ||2018: Mathematician Bernard Morin dies. He contributed to topology, notably sphere eversion, discovering the Morin surface, which is a half-way model for the sphere eversion; he also discovered the first parametrization of Boy's surface. Pic search good: https://www.google.com/search?q=bernard+morin
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