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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: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:Statue of Ibn Rushd in Cordoba.jpg|link=Ibn Rushd (nonfiction)|1188: Polymath [[Ibn Rushd (nonfiction)|Ibn Rushd]] (Averoess) publishes new class of [[Gnomon algorithm functions]] which detect and prevent [[crimes against mathematical constants]].
||1542 - Lisa del Giocondo, subject of Leonardo da Vinci's painting Mona Lisa (b. 1479)


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: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.


||1799 – The Rosetta Stone is found in the Egyptian village of Rosetta by French Captain Pierre-François Bouchard during Napoleon's Egyptian Campaign.
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.
 
||1865 – Wilhelm Wirtinger, Austrian-German mathematician and theorist (d. 1945)
 
||1915 – Albert Ghiorso, American chemist and academic (d. 2010)
 
||1918 – Bertram Brockhouse, Canadian physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2003)
 
||1919 – Hermann Emil Fischer, German chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1852)
 
||1921 – Robert Bruce Merrifield, American biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2006)
 
||1922 – Leon M. Lederman, American physicist and mathematician, Nobel Prize laureate
 
||1926 – Raymond Gosling, English physicist and academic (d. 2015)
 
||1928 – Carl Woese, American microbiologist and biophysicist (d. 2012)
 
||1930 – Stephen Smale, American mathematician and computer scientist
 
||1955 – Eighteen Nobel laureates sign the Mainau Declaration against nuclear weapons, later co-signed by thirty-four others.


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: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:Wallace War-Heels.jpg|link=Wallace War-Heels|1866: Adventurer and alleged time-travelling "Pirate of the Prairies" [[Wallace War-Heels]] defeats Baron Zersetzung in single combat.
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.  
 
||1975 – Space Race: Apollo–Soyuz Test Project features the dual launch of an Apollo spacecraft and a Soyuz spacecraft on the first joint Soviet-United States human-crewed flight. It was both the last launch of an Apollo spacecraft, and the Saturn family of rockets.
 
|File:Janet Beta Accepts Commission (detail).jpg|link=Janet Beta|Mathematician and crime-fighter [[Janet Beta]] calls ''[[Janet Beta at ENIAC]]'' "a reasonably accurate depiction of events as I experienced them."
 
||2003 – AOL Time Warner disbands Netscape. The Mozilla Foundation is established on the same day.
 
||2006 – Twitter is launched, becoming one of the largest social media platforms in the world.


||2013 – John T. Riedl, American computer scientist and academic (b. 1962)
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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  • 998: Mathematician and astronomer Abū al-Wafā' Būzjānī dies. His Almagest was widely read by medieval Arabic astronomers in the centuries after his death.

    998: Mathematician and astronomer Abū al-Wafā' Būzjānī dies. His Almagest was widely read by medieval Arabic astronomers in the centuries after his death.

  • 1573: Architect Inigo Jones born. He will be one of the first architects of the early modern period to employ Vitruvian rules of proportion and symmetry in his buildings.

    1573: Architect Inigo Jones born. He will be one of the first architects of the early modern period to employ Vitruvian rules of proportion and symmetry in his buildings.

  • 1848: Engineer, sociologist, economist, political scientist, and philosopher 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.

    1848: Engineer, sociologist, economist, political scientist, and philosopher 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.

  • 1865: Mathematician Wilhelm Wirtinger born. He will contribute to complex analysis, geometry, algebra, number theory, Lie groups and knot theory.

    1865: Mathematician Wilhelm Wirtinger born. He will contribute to complex analysis, geometry, algebra, number theory, Lie groups and knot theory.

  • 2004: Mathematician 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.

    2004: Mathematician 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.

  • 2013: Computer scientist and academic John T. Riedl dies. He was a founder of the field of recommender systems, social computing, and interactive intelligent user interface systems.

    2013: Computer scientist and academic 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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