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||1561 – Santorio Santorio, Italian biologist (d. 1636)
File:Emanuel Swedenborg.png|link=Emanuel Swedenborg (nonfiction)|1772: Astronomer, philosopher, theologian, and mystic [[Emanuel Swedenborg (nonfiction)|Emanuel Swedenborg]] dies.
File:Laura Bassi.jpg|link=Laura Bassi (nonfiction)|1773: Physicist and academic [[Laura Bassi (nonfiction)|Laura Bassi]] uses [[Gnomon algorithm functions]] to predict and prevent [[crimes against mathematical constants]].
File:Jørgen Jørgensen (Eckersberg).jpg|link=Jørgen Jørgensen (nonfiction)|1780: Adventurer [[Jørgen Jørgensen (nonfiction)|Jørgen Jørgensen]] born. He will sail to Iceland, declaring the country independent from Denmark and pronouncing himself its ruler, intending to found a new republic following the United States of America and France.
File:Jørgen Jørgensen (Eckersberg).jpg|link=Jørgen Jørgensen (nonfiction)|1780: Adventurer [[Jørgen Jørgensen (nonfiction)|Jørgen Jørgensen]] born. He will sail to Iceland, declaring the country independent from Denmark and pronouncing himself its ruler, intending to found a new republic following the United States of America and France.


||1824 – Ludwig Büchner, German physiologist, physician, and philosopher (d. 1899)
File:Tullio Levi-civita.jpg|link=Tullio Levi-Civita (nonfiction)|1873: Mathematician and academic [[Tullio Levi-Civita (nonfiction)|Tullio Levi-Civita]] born. Levi-Civita will gain fame for his work on absolute differential calculus (tensor calculus) and its applications to the theory of relativity, and make significant contributions in other areas.
 
||Désiré André (b. March 29, 1840) was a French mathematician, best known for his work on Catalan numbers and alternating permutations.
 
||1873 – Tullio Levi-Civita, Jewish-Italian mathematician and academic (d. 1941)
 
||1873 – Francesco Zantedeschi, Italian priest and physicist (b. 1797)
 
File:Grigori Rasputin 1916.jpg|link=Grigori Rasputin (nonfiction)|1873: Mystic and faith healer [[Grigori Rasputin (nonfiction)|Grigori Rasputin]] generates new class of [[cryptographic numen]].
 
||1888 – Enea Bossi, Sr., Italian-American engineer, designed the Budd BB-1 Pioneer and Bossi-Bonomi Pedaliante (d. 1963)
 
||Eduard Rüchardt (b. March 29, 1888) was a German physicist. In modern times Rüchardt is mainly noted for the experiment named after him. However, Rüchardt's chief topic was the study of canal rays.
 
||1895 – Ernst Jünger, German philosopher and author (d. 1998)
 
File:Wilhelm Ackermann.jpg|link=Wilhelm Ackermann (nonfiction)|1896: Mathematician [[Wilhelm Ackermann (nonfiction)|Wilhelm Ackermann]] born.  He will discover the Ackermann function, an important example in the theory of computation.
 
||1912 – Hanna Reitsch, Polish-German soldier and pilot (d. 1979)
 
||Leonard Isaac Schiff was born in Fall River, Massachusetts on d. March 29, 1915 - He was a physicist best known for his book Quantum Mechanics.
 
||1918 – Lê Văn Thiêm, Vietnamese mathematician and academic (d. 1991)
 
||1927 – John Vane, English pharmacologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2004)


||1944: Mathematician Grace Chisholm Young dies.
File:Francesco Zantedeschi.jpg|link=Francesco Zantedeschi (nonfiction)|1873: Physicist and priest [[Francesco Zantedeschi (nonfiction)|Francesco Zantedeschi]] dies. Zantedeschi was among the first to recognize the marked absorption by the atmosphere of red, yellow, and green light. He also thought that he had detected, in 1838, a magnetic action on steel needles by ultraviolet light, anticipating later discoveries connecting light and magnetism.


||1974 – NASA's Mariner 10 becomes the first space probe to fly by Mercury.
File:Wilhelm Ackermann.jpg|link=Wilhelm Ackermann (nonfiction)|1896: Mathematician [[Wilhelm Ackermann (nonfiction)|Wilhelm Ackermann]] born.  Ackermann will discover the Ackermann function, an important example in the theory of computation.


||2003 Carlo Urbani, Italian physician and microbiologist (b. 1956) died SARS
File:Carlo_Urbani.jpg|link=Carlo Urbani (nonfiction)|2003: Physician and microbiologist [[Carlo Urbani (nonfiction)|Carlo Urbani]] dies of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS).  Urbani identifed SARS as a new and dangerously contagious viral disease, and his early warning to the World Health Organization (WHO) triggered a swift and global response credited with saving numerous lives.


File:Cryptographic numen modelled as nano-wire.jpg|link=Cryptographic numen|2015: [[Cryptographic numen]] modeled in nanowire, forecasts new class of [[crimes against mathematical constants]].
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