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| File:Adam Ries.png|link=Adam Ries (nonfiction)|1548: Mathematician and [[APTO]] field engineer [[Adam Ries (nonfiction)|Adam Ries]] publishes his groundbreaking textbook, which promotes the advantages of Arabic/Indian numerals over Roman numerals in a wide range of [[Gnomon algorithm]] applications, notably the detection and prevention of [[crimes against mathematical constants]].
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| ||1561: Santorio Santorio born ... physiologist, physician, and professor, who introduced the quantitative approach into medicine. He is also known as the inventor of several medical devices, including the thermometer. Pic.
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| File:Emanuel Swedenborg.png|link=Emanuel Swedenborg (nonfiction)|1772: Astronomer, philosopher, theologian, and mystic [[Emanuel Swedenborg (nonfiction)|Emanuel Swedenborg]] dies.
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| 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]].
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| 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. |
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| ||1824: Ludwig Büchner born ... physiologist, physician, and philosopher.
| | 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. |
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| ||1825: The Blessed Francesco Faà di Bruno born ... priest and advocate of the poor, a leading mathematician of his era and a noted religious musician. In 1988 he was beatified by Pope John Paul II. He is the eponym of Faà di Bruno's formula. Pic.
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| ||1870: Désiré André dies ... mathematician, best known for his work on Catalan numbers and alternating permutations.
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| ||1806: John Thomas Graves born ... jurist and mathematician. He was a friend of William Rowan Hamilton, and is credited both with inspiring Hamilton to discover the quaternions and with personally discovering the octonions, which he called the octaves. Pic: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:John_T_Graves.jpg
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| File:Niles Cartouchian 2.jpg|link=Niles Cartouchian (1900s)|1872: Mathematician, crime-fighter, and alleged time-traveller [[Niles Cartouchian (1900s)|Niles Cartouchian]] uses [[Time crystal (nonfiction)|time crystals (nonfiction)]] to track down and delete the criminal artificial intelligence [[Killer Poke]].
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| File:Tullio Levi-civita.jpg|link=Tullio Levi-Civita (nonfiction)|1873: Mathematician and academic [[Tullio Levi-Civita (nonfiction)|Tullio Levi-Civita]] born. He 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. | |
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| ||1873: Francesco Zantedeschi dies ... priest and physicist.
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| File:Grigori Rasputin 1916.jpg|link=Grigori Rasputin (nonfiction)|1874: Mystic, faith healer, and alleged time-traveller [[Grigori Rasputin (nonfiction)|Grigori Rasputin]] accused of [[crimes against mathematical constants]].
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| ||1888: Enea Bossi, Sr. born ... engineer, designed the Budd BB-1 Pioneer and Bossi-Bonomi Pedaliante.
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| ||1888: Eduard Rüchardt born ... 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.
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| ||1889: Philip Van Horn Weems born ... United States Navy officer, inventor of navigational instruments and methods, including the Weems Plotter and the Second Setting Watch, and author of navigational textbooks. Star Altitude Curves. Pic: https://timeandnavigation.si.edu/multimedia-asset/philip-van-horn-weems-0
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| ||1899: Lavrentiy Pavlovich Beria born ... politician of Georgian ethnicity, Marshal of the Soviet Union and state security administrator, chief of the Soviet security and secret police apparatus (NKVD) under Joseph Stalin during World War II.
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| ||1895: Ernst Jünger born ... philosopher and author.
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| 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.
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| ||1912: Martin Maximilian Emil Eichler born ... number theorist. Eichler and Goro Shimura developed a method to construct elliptic curves from certain modular forms. The converse notion that every elliptic curve has a corresponding modular form would later be the key to the proof of Fermat's last theorem. Pic.
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| ||1912: Hanna Reitsch born ... soldier and pilot.
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| ||1915: Leonard Isaac Schiff dies ... physicist best known for his book Quantum Mechanics.
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| ||1918: Lê Văn Thiêm born ... mathematician and academic.
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| ||1927: John Vane born ... pharmacologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate.
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| ||1940: Charles E. M. Pearce born ... mathematician and academic. He will contribute to probabilistic and statistical modelling and analysis; his applied interests will include queuing theory, road traffic, telecommunications, and urban planning. Pic.
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| ||1944: Mathematician Grace Chisholm Young dies. She contributed measurable functions to the Denjoy–Young–Saks theorem, which gives some possibilities for the Dini derivatives of a function that hold almost everywhere. Pic.
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| File:Dard Hunter, Glyph Warden detail.jpg|link=Niles Cartouchian (1900s)|1952: Actor-cryptographer [[Niles Cartouchian (1900s)|Niles Cartouchian]] premiers new short film about the [[Halting problem (nonfiction)|Halting problem]]. Seen by few at first, it will gain fame over time, influencing a generation of [[Mathematician|mathematical crime-fighters]].
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| File:Mariner 10 diagram.jpg|link=Mariner 10 (nonfiction)|1974: NASA's [[Mariner 10 (nonfiction)|Mariner 10]] becomes the first space probe to fly by Mercury.
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| ||1981: Helmut Hönl dies ... theoretical physicist who made contributions to quantum mechanics and the understanding of atomic and molecular structure. Pic.
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| ||1982: Charles Allen Thomas dies ... American chemist and businessman, and an important figure in the Manhattan Project. Pic.
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| ||1986: Jean Louis Maxime van Heijenoort dies ... pioneer historian of mathematical logic. He was also a personal secretary to Leon Trotsky from 1932 to 1939, and from then until 1947, an American Trotskyist activist. Pic.
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| ||1996: Gordon Pask dies ... author, inventor, educational theorist, cybernetician and psychologist who made significant contributions to cybernetics, instructional psychology, experimental epistemology and educational technology. Pic.
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| ||2003: Carlo Urbani dies ... physician and microbiologist ... died SARS. | | 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. |
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| ||2017: Alexei Alexeyevich Abrikosov dies ... theoretical physicist whose main contributions are in the field of condensed matter physics. He was the co-recipient of the 2003 Nobel Prize in Physics, with Vitaly Ginzburg and Anthony James Leggett, for theories about how matter can behave at extremely low temperatures. Pic. | | 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. |
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| File:Stardust.jpg|link=Stardust (image) (nonfiction)|2016: Steganographic analysis of ''[[Stardust (image) (nonfiction)|Stardust]]'' unexpectedly reveals "about eight hundred kilobytes" of previously unknown [[Gnomon algorithm]] functions. | | 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. |
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