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| | File:Martin Waldseemüller.jpg|link=Martin Waldseemüller (nonfiction)|1520: Mapmaker [[Martin Waldseemüller (nonfiction)|Martin Waldseemüller]] dies. Waldseemüller produced a globular world map and a large 12-panel world wall map using the information from Columbus and Vespucci's travels (Universalis Cosmographia), both bearing the first use of the name "America". |
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| File:Martin Waldseemüller.jpg|link=Martin Waldseemüller (nonfiction)|1520: Mapmaker [[Martin Waldseemüller (nonfiction)|Martin Waldseemüller]] dies. He produced a globular world map and a large 12-panel world wall map using the information from Columbus and Vespucci's travels (Universalis Cosmographia), both bearing the first use of the name "America". | | File:Caroline_Herschel_1829.jpg|link=Caroline Herschel (nonfiction)|1750: Astronomer [[Caroline Herschel (nonfiction)|Caroline Herschel]] born. Herschel will discover several comets, including the periodic comet 35P/Herschel-Rigollet, which bears her name. |
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| ||1521: Ferdinand Magellan reaches the island of Homonhon in the Philippines. | | File:Nathaniel Bowditch.jpg|link=Nathaniel Bowditch (nonfiction)|1838: American captain and mathematician [[Nathaniel Bowditch (nonfiction)|Nathaniel Bowditch]] dies. Bowditch was a founder of modern maritime navigation; his book ''The New American Practical Navigator'', first published in 1802, is still carried on board every commissioned U.S. Naval vessel. |
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| File:Emilie Chatelet portrait by Latour.jpg|link=Émilie du Châtelet (nonfiction)|1732: Mathematician and physicist [[Émilie du Châtelet (nonfiction)|Émilie du Châtelet]] publishes new class of [[Gnomon algorithm functions]] which detect and prevent [[crimes against mathematical constants]]. | | File:Alexander Stepanovich Popov.jpg|link=Alexander Stepanovich Popov (nonfiction)|1859: Physicist and academic [[Alexander Stepanovich Popov (nonfiction)|Alexander Stepanovich Popov]] born. Popov will make pioneering contributions to the study of high frequency electrical phenomenoa; in Russia and some eastern European, he will be acclaimed as the inventor of radio. |
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| ||1741: Carlo Amoretti born ... scientist.
| | File:Kodaira Kunihiko.jpg|link=Kunihiko Kodaira (nonfiction)|1915: Mathematician and academic [[Kunihiko Kodaira (nonfiction)|Kunihiko Kodaira]] born. Kodaira will make distinguished contributions algebraic geometry and the theory of complex manifolds, winning the Fields medal in 1954. |
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| File:Daniel Bernoulli.jpg|link=Daniel Bernoulli (nonfiction)|1749: Mathematician, physicist, and crime-fighter [[Daniel Bernoulli (nonfiction)|Daniel Bernoulli]] publishes new class of [[Gnomon algorithm functions]] based on applications of mathematics to mechanics to detect and prevent both [[crimes against mathematics]] and [[crimes against physics]].
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| File:Caroline_Herschel_1829.jpg|link=Caroline Herschel (nonfiction)|1750: Astronomer [[Caroline Herschel (nonfiction)|Caroline Herschel]] born. She will discover several comets, including the periodic comet 35P/Herschel-Rigollet, which bears her name.
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| File:Laura Bassi.jpg|link=Laura Bassi (nonfiction)|1751: Physicist and crime-fighter [[Laura Bassi (nonfiction)|Laura Bassi]] uses [[Gnomon algorithm functions]] to detect and prevent [[crimes against mathematical constants]].
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| ||1774 – Matthew Flinders, English navigator and cartographer (d. 1814)
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| ||1789 – Physicist and mathematician Georg Ohm born. Ohm found that there is a direct proportionality between the potential difference (voltage) applied across a conductor and the resultant electric current. This relationship is known as Ohm's law.
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| ||Heinrich Eduard Heine (b. 16 March 1821) was a German mathematician. Heine became known for results on special functions and in real analysis. In particular, he authored an important treatise on spherical harmonics and Legendre functions (Handbuch der Kugelfunctionen). He also investigated basic hypergeometric series. He introduced the Mehler–Heine formula.
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| ||1836 – Andrew Smith Hallidie, English-American engineer and businessman (d. 1900)
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| File:Nathaniel Bowditch.jpg|link=Nathaniel Bowditch (nonfiction)|1838: American captain and mathematician [[Nathaniel Bowditch (nonfiction)|Nathaniel Bowditch]] dies. He was a founder of modern maritime navigation; his book ''The New American Practical Navigator'', first published in 1802, is still carried on board every commissioned U.S. Naval vessel.
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| ||1841 – Félix Savart, French physicist and psychologist (d. 1791)
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| ||Magnus Gustaf (Gösta) Mittag-Leffler (b. 16 March 1846) was a Swedish mathematician. His mathematical contributions are connected chiefly with the theory of functions, which today is called complex analysis. Pic.
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| ||1851 – Martinus Beijerinck, Dutch microbiologist and botanist (d. 1931)
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| File:Alexander Stepanovich Popov.jpg|link=Alexander Stepanovich Popov (nonfiction)|1859: Physicist and academic [[Alexander Stepanovich Popov (nonfiction)|Alexander Stepanovich Popov]] born. He will do pioneering research in high frequency electrical phenomenoa; in Russia and some eastern European, he will be acclaimed as the inventor of radio.
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| ||Siegfried Flügge (b. 16 March 1912) was a German theoretical physicist and made contributions to nuclear physics and the theoretical basis for nuclear weapons. He worked in the German Uranverein (nuclear weapons project). Pic.
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| File:Kodaira Kunihiko.jpg|link=Kunihiko Kodaira (nonfiction)|1915: Mathematician and academic [[Kunihiko Kodaira (nonfiction)|Kunihiko Kodaira]] born. He will do distinguished work in algebraic geometry and the theory of complex manifolds, winning the Fields medal in 1954. | |
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| ||Tsutomu Yamaguchi (b. March 16, 1916) was a survivor of both the Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bombings during World War II. Although at least 70 people are known to have been affected by both bombings,[1] he is the only person to have been officially recognized by the government of Japan as surviving both explosions. Pic.
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| ||1918 – Frederick Reines, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1998).
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| ||1923: Alexander Nikolayevich Lodygin dies ... electrical engineer and inventor, one of inventors of the incandescent light bulb. Pic.
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| ||1925: August von Wassermann dies ... bacteriologist and hygienist.
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| ||1926: History of Rocketry: Robert Goddard launches the first liquid-fueled rocket, at Auburn, Massachusetts.
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| ||1927: Vladimir Mikhaylovich Komarov born ... test pilot, aerospace engineer and cosmonaut. In October 1964, he commanded Voskhod 1, the first spaceflight to carry more than one crew member. He became the first cosmonaut to fly in space twice when he was selected as the solo pilot of Soyuz 1, the first manned test flight of a new spacecraft. A parachute failure caused his Soyuz capsule to crash into the ground after re-entry on 24 April 1967, making him the first human to die in a space flight. Pic.
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| ||1929: Tihomir Novakov born ... physicist and academic.
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| ||1935: Adolf Hitler orders Germany to rearm herself in violation of the Treaty of Versailles. Conscription is reintroduced to form the Wehrmacht.
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| ||1936: Raymond Vahan Damadian born ... inventor, invented the MRI.
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| ||1940: Thomas Little Heath dies ... civil servant, mathematician, classical scholar, historian of ancient Greek mathematics, translator, and mountaineer. He was educated at Clifton College. Heath translated works of Euclid of Alexandria, Apollonius of Perga, Aristarchus of Samos, and Archimedes of Syracuse into English. Pic: http://faculty.etsu.edu/gardnerr/geometry-history/heiberg-heath.htm
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| ||1966: Launch of Gemini 8, the 12th manned American space flight and first space docking with the Agena target vehicle.
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| File:Palomares H-Bomb Incident.jpg|link=1966 Palomares B-52 crash (nonfiction)|1966: After-effects of [[1966 Palomares B-52 crash (nonfiction)|1966 Palomares B-52 crash]] reveal new class of [[crimes against mathematical constants]].
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| File:Niles Cartouchian and Egon Rhodomunde Confront Gnotilus.jpg|link=Niles Cartouchian and Egon Rhodomunde Confront Gnotilus|1967: ''[[Niles Cartouchian and Egon Rhodomunde Confront Gnotilus]]'' causes widespread debate about the role of private citizens in fighting [[crimes against mathematical constants]].
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| ||1988: Iran–Contra affair: Lieutenant Colonel Oliver North and Vice Admiral John Poindexter are indicted on charges of conspiracy to defraud the United States.
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| ||1992: Yves Rocard dies ... physicist and engineer.
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| ||1994: C. S. Venkataraman dies ... Mathematician ... specialized in the theory of numbers and his forte was the Theory of Arithmetic Functions. Pic.
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| ||1998: Derek Barton dies ... chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate.
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| ||2001: Johannes Benzing dies ... Turkic specialist and Diplomat in the era of National Socialism and in the Federal Republic of Germany. Benzing worked as a Linguist in Pers Z S, the signals intelligence agency of the German Foreign Office (German: Auswärtiges Amt). He was the youngest senior official (German:Beamter) and headed the section from October 1939 until September 1944. Pic.
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| ||2013: Jamal Nazrul Islam dies ... physicist and cosmologist.
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| File:Zero knowledge proof.png|link=Zero-knowledge proof (nonfiction)|2014: Advances in [[Zero-knowledge proof (nonfiction)|zero-knowledge proof]] theory "are central to the problem of mathematical reliability," says mathematician and crime-fighter [[Alice Beta]].
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| File:Do_Not_Tease_Monster_by_Karl_Jones_800x600.jpg|link=Do Not Tease Monster (nonfiction)|2016: Steganographic analysis of ''[[Do Not Tease Monster]]'' unexpectedly reveals "no less than four hundred kilobytes" of encrypted data relating to ''[[The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters (nonfiction)|The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters]]''.
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