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File:Julius_Caesar_-_Tusculum_portrait.jpg|link=Julius Caesar (nonfiction)|44 BC: [[Julius Caesar (nonfiction)|Julius Caesar]], Dictator of the Roman Republic, is stabbed to death by Marcus Junius Brutus, Gaius Cassius Longinus, Decimus Junius Brutus, and several other Roman senators on the Ides of March.
File:Julius_Caesar_-_Tusculum_portrait.jpg|link=Julius Caesar (nonfiction)|44 BC: [[Julius Caesar (nonfiction)|Julius Caesar]], Dictator of the Roman Republic, is stabbed to death by Marcus Junius Brutus, Gaius Cassius Longinus, Decimus Junius Brutus, and several other Roman senators on the Ides of March.
File:Martin Waldseemüller.jpg|link=Martin Waldseemüller (nonfiction)|1519: Mapmaker [[Martin Waldseemüller (nonfiction)|Martin Waldseemüller]] publishes new edition of ''Universalis Cosmographia'' which accuses [[Egon Rhodomunde]] of commissioning [[crimes against cartography]].
File:Johannes Kepler 1610.jpg|link=Johannes Kepler (nonfiction)|1612: Mathematician [[Johannes Kepler (nonfiction)|Johannes Kepler]] uses astrological forecasts to predict and prevent [[crimes against mathematical constants]].
||1783 – In an emotional speech in Newburgh, New York, George Washington asks his officers not to support the Newburgh Conspiracy. The plea is successful and the threatened coup d'état never takes place.
||1819 – French physicist Augustin-Jean Fresnel wins a contest at the Academie des Sciences in Paris by proving that light behaves like a wave. The Fresnel integrals, still used to calculate wave patterns, silence skeptics who had backed the particle theory of Isaac Newton.
||1821 – Johann Josef Loschmidt, Austrian physicist and chemist (d. 1895)
||Sir Charles Vernon Boys, FRS (b. 15 March 1855) was a British physicist, known for his careful and innovative experimental work.
||1860 – Waldemar Haffkine, Russian-Swiss bacteriologist and microbiologist (d. 1930)
||1866 – Johan Vaaler, Norwegian inventor, invented the Paper clip (d. 1910)
||1868: Mathematician Grace Chisholm Young born.
||Innocenzo Vincenzo Bartolomeo Luigi Carlo Manzetti (d. 15 March 1877) was an Italian inventor
||1890 – Boris Delaunay, Russian mathematician and mountaineer (d. 1980) Boris Nikolaevich Delaunay or Delone (Russian: Бори́с Никола́евич Делоне́; March 15, 1890 – July 17, 1980) was one of the first Russian mountain climbers and a Soviet/Russian mathematician, and the father of physicist Nikolai Borisovich Delone.
||1891 – Joseph Bazalgette, English engineer and academic (b. 1819)


File:James Joseph Sylvester.jpg|link=James Joseph Sylvester (nonfiction)|1897: Mathematician and academic [[James Joseph Sylvester (nonfiction)|James Joseph Sylvester]] dies. He made fundamental contributions to matrix theory, invariant theory, number theory, partition theory, and combinatorics.
File:James Joseph Sylvester.jpg|link=James Joseph Sylvester (nonfiction)|1897: Mathematician and academic [[James Joseph Sylvester (nonfiction)|James Joseph Sylvester]] dies. He made fundamental contributions to matrix theory, invariant theory, number theory, partition theory, and combinatorics.


||1898 – Henry Bessemer, English engineer and businessman (b. 1813)
File:Elwin_Bruno_Christoffel.jpg|link=Elwin Bruno Christoffel (nonfiction)|1900: Mathematician and physicist [[Elwin Bruno Christoffel (nonfiction)|Elwin Bruno Christoffel]] dies. He introduced fundamental concepts of differential geometry, opening the way for the development of tensor calculus, later providing the mathematical basis for general relativity.


||Elwin Bruno Christoffel (d. March 15, 1900) was a German mathematician and physicist. He introduced fundamental concepts of differential geometry, opening the way for the development of tensor calculus, which would later provide the mathematical basis for general relativity.
File:You Can Make It If You Try - Sly Stone.jpg|1943: Sylvester Stewart born. Better known by his stage name Sly Stone, he is an American musician, songwriter, and record producer who is most famous for his role as front man for Sly and the Family Stone, playing a critical role in the development of soul, funk, rock, and psychedelia in the 1960s and 1970s.
 
File:Heike Kamerlingh Onnes.jpg|link=Heike Kamerlingh Onnes (nonfiction)|1911: Physicist and crime-fighter [[Heike Kamerlingh Onnes (nonfiction)|Heike Kamerlingh Onnes]] uses liquid helium to freeze supervillain [[Neptune Slaughter]].
 
File:Cesare_Arzelà.jpg|link=Cesare Arzelà (nonfiction)|1912: Mathematician [[Cesare Arzelà (nonfiction)|Cesare Arzelà]] dies. He contributed to the theory of functions, notably his characterization of sequences of continuous functions.
 
||1930 – Zhores Alferov, Belarusian-Russian physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
 
||1930 – Martin Karplus, Austrian-American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
 
||1951 – John S. Paraskevopoulos, Greek-South African astronomer and academic (b. 1889)
 
||Eduard Čech (d. 15 March 1960) was a Czech mathematician born in Stračov (then Bohemia, Austria-Hungary, now Czech Republic). His research interests included projective differential geometry and topology. He is especially known for the technique known as Stone–Čech compactification (in topology) and the notion of Čech cohomology. Pic.


File:Arthur Compton 1927.jpg|link=Arthur Compton (nonfiction)|1962:  American physicist and academic [[Arthur Compton (nonfiction)|Arthur Compton]] dies. He won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1927 for his 1923 discovery of the Compton effect, which demonstrated the particle nature of electromagnetic radiation.
File:Arthur Compton 1927.jpg|link=Arthur Compton (nonfiction)|1962:  American physicist and academic [[Arthur Compton (nonfiction)|Arthur Compton]] dies. He won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1927 for his 1923 discovery of the Compton effect, which demonstrated the particle nature of electromagnetic radiation.
File:Venera 7.jpg|link=Venera 7 (nonfiction)|1970: Soviet spacecraft [[Venera 7 (nonfiction)|Venera 7]] detects evidence of interstellar [[crimes against mathematical constants]].
||1985 – The first Internet domain name is registered (symbolics.com).
||1988 – Dmitri Polyakov, Ukrainian general and spy (b. 1926)
||Francis Joseph Murray (d. March 15, 1996) was a mathematician, known for his foundational work (with John von Neumann) on functional analysis, and what subsequently became known as von Neumann algebras.
||2004 – Bill Pickering, New Zealand-American scientist and engineer (b. 1910)
||2004 – John Pople, English-American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1925)
||George Whitelaw Mackey (d. March 15, 2006) was an American mathematician. Mackey was one of the pioneer workers in the intersection of quantum logic, the theory of infinite-dimensional unitary representations of groups, the theory of operator algebras and noncommutative geometry. Pic.
||2013 – James Bonk, American chemist and academic (b. 1931)


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  • 44 BC: Julius Caesar, Dictator of the Roman Republic, is stabbed to death by Marcus Junius Brutus, Gaius Cassius Longinus, Decimus Junius Brutus, and several other Roman senators on the Ides of March.

    44 BC: Julius Caesar, Dictator of the Roman Republic, is stabbed to death by Marcus Junius Brutus, Gaius Cassius Longinus, Decimus Junius Brutus, and several other Roman senators on the Ides of March.

  • 1897: Mathematician and academic James Joseph Sylvester dies. He made fundamental contributions to matrix theory, invariant theory, number theory, partition theory, and combinatorics.

    1897: Mathematician and academic James Joseph Sylvester dies. He made fundamental contributions to matrix theory, invariant theory, number theory, partition theory, and combinatorics.

  • 1900: Mathematician and physicist Elwin Bruno Christoffel dies. He introduced fundamental concepts of differential geometry, opening the way for the development of tensor calculus, later providing the mathematical basis for general relativity.

    1900: Mathematician and physicist Elwin Bruno Christoffel dies. He introduced fundamental concepts of differential geometry, opening the way for the development of tensor calculus, later providing the mathematical basis for general relativity.

  • 1943: Sylvester Stewart born. Better known by his stage name Sly Stone, he is an American musician, songwriter, and record producer who is most famous for his role as front man for Sly and the Family Stone, playing a critical role in the development of soul, funk, rock, and psychedelia in the 1960s and 1970s.

    1943: Sylvester Stewart born. Better known by his stage name Sly Stone, he is an American musician, songwriter, and record producer who is most famous for his role as front man for Sly and the Family Stone, playing a critical role in the development of soul, funk, rock, and psychedelia in the 1960s and 1970s.

  • 1962: American physicist and academic Arthur Compton dies. He won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1927 for his 1923 discovery of the Compton effect, which demonstrated the particle nature of electromagnetic radiation.

    1962: American physicist and academic Arthur Compton dies. He won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1927 for his 1923 discovery of the Compton effect, which demonstrated the particle nature of electromagnetic radiation.

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