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File:Wild Man in Hydrogen Bubble Chamber.jpg|link=Time travel (nonfiction)|2001: [[Time travel (nonfiction)|Time travel device]] develops self-awareness, invents new type of [[scrying engine]].
File:Buzjani.jpg|link=Abu al-Wafa' Buzjani (nonfiction)|998: Mathematician and astronomer [[Abu al-Wafa' Buzjani (nonfiction)|Abū al-Wafā' Būzjānī]] dies. His ''Almagest'' was widely read by medieval Arabic astronomers in the centuries after his death.
 
File:Inigo Jones.jpg|link=Inigo Jones (nonfiction)|1573: Architect [[Inigo Jones (nonfiction)|Inigo Jones]] born. He will be one of the first architects of the early modern period to employ [[Vitruvius (nonfiction)|Vitruvian]] rules of proportion and symmetry in his buildings.
 
File:Vilfredo Pareto 1870s.jpg|link=Vilfredo Pareto (nonfiction)|1848: Engineer, sociologist, economist, political scientist, and philosopher [[Vilfredo Pareto (nonfiction)|Vilfredo Pareto]] born.  He will apply mathematics to economic analysis, asserting that the distribution of incomes and wealth in society is not random and that a consistent pattern appears throughout history, in all parts of the world and in all societies.
 
File:Wilhelm Wirtinger.jpg|link=Wilhelm Wirtinger (nonfiction)|1865: Mathematician [[Wilhelm Wirtinger (nonfiction)|Wilhelm Wirtinger]] born. He will contribute to complex analysis, geometry, algebra, number theory, Lie groups and knot theory.
 
File:Derek Taunt.jpg|link=Derek Taunt (nonfiction)|2004: Mathematician [[Derek Taunt (nonfiction)|Derek Taunt]] dies. He worked as a codebreaker at Bletchley Park during World War II. Taunt was assigned to Hut 6, the section in charge of decrypting German Army and Air Force Enigma signals. After his wartime work, he returned to Cambridge, and worked on group theory.
 
File:John Riedl.jpg|link=John T. Riedl (nonfiction)|2013: Computer scientist and academic [[John T. Riedl (nonfiction)|John T. Riedl]] dies. He was a founder of the field of recommender systems, social computing, and interactive intelligent user interface systems.  
 
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