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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.
||1542: Lisa del Giocondo dies ... subject of Leonardo da Vinci's painting Mona Lisa.


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.
||1794: Gabrio Piola born ... mathematician and physicist, member of the Lombardo Institute of Science, Letters and Arts. He studied in particular the mechanics of the continuous, linking his name to the tensors called Piola-Kirchhoff. Pic.
||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.
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:Wallace War-Heels.jpg|link=Wallace War-Heels|1864: Adventurer and alleged time-travelling "Pirate of the Prairies" [[Wallace War-Heels]] defeats Baron Zersetzung in single combat.


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:The Governess.jpg|link=The Governess|1866: Social activist and alleged superhero [[The Governess]] chastises [[math criminals]], shames them into returning stolen digits.
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.  
 
||1871: Max Ernst August Bodenstein born ... physical chemist known for his work in chemical kinetics. He was first to postulate a chain reaction mechanism and that explosions are branched chain reactions, later applied to the atomic bomb. Pic.
 
||1879: Charles Hatfield born ... meteorologist, rainmaker. Pic search (cool) yes: https://www.google.com/search?q=charles+hatfield&oq=Charles+Hatfield
 
||1906: Adolph-Andrei Pavlovich Yushkevich born ... historian of mathematics, leading expert in medieval mathematics of the East and the work of Leonhard Euler. Pic.
 
||1908: Henryk Zygalski born ... mathematician and cryptologist who worked at breaking German Enigma ciphers before and during World War II. Pic.
 
||1909: Hendrik Brugt Gerhard Casimir born ... physicist best known for his research on the two-fluid model of superconductors (together with C. J. Gorter) in 1934 and the Casimir effect (together with D. Polder) in 1948.
 
||1912: Tibor Gallai born... mathematician. He worked in combinatorics, especially in graph theory. Pic: http://tudosnaptar.kfki.hu/historia/egyen.php?namenev=gallai
 
||1915: Albert Ghiorso born ... nuclear scientist and co-discoverer of a record 12 chemical elements on the periodic table. Pic.
 
||1916: Élie Metchnikoff dies ... zoologist best known for his pioneering research in immunology. Metchnikoff is credited with the discovery of phagocytes (macrophages) in 1882. This discovery turned out to be the major defence mechanism in innate immunity. He and Paul Ehrlich were jointly awarded the 1908 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine "in recognition of their work on immunity". Pic.
 
||1918: Bertram Brockhouse born ... physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate.
 
||1919: Hermann Emil Fischer dies ... chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate ...  discovered the Fischer esterification. He developed the Fischer projection, a symbolic way of drawing asymmetric carbon atoms.
 
||1921: Robert Bruce Merrifield born ... biochemist who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1984 for the invention of solid phase peptide synthesis. Pic.
 
||1922: Leon M. Lederman born ... physicist and mathematician, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic.
 
||1926: Raymond Gosling born ... physicist and academic.
 
||1928: Carl Woese born ... microbiologist and biophysicist.
 
||1929: Peter H. Schönemann born ... psychometrician and statistical expert. He was professor emeritus in the Department of Psychological Sciences at Purdue University. His research interests included multivariate statistics, multidimensional scaling and measurement, quantitative behavior genetics, test theory and mathematical tools for social scientists. Schönemann was a persistent critic of what he considered to be scientifically sanctioned racism in psychology. Pic: http://ferris-pages.org/ISAR/schonemann-obit/
 
||1930: Stephen Smale born ... American mathematician and computer scientist (Alive Aug. 2018).
 
||1936: Richard Dixon Oldham dies ... seismologist and geologist ... Oldham made the first clear identification of the separate arrivals of P-waves, S-waves and surface waves on seismograms and the first clear evidence that the Earth has a central core. Pic.
 
||1940: Mathematician and academic Mark Pinsky born ... probability theory, mathematical analysis, Fourier Analysis and wavelets. Pic search yes: https://www.google.com/search?q=mark+pinsky+mathematician
 
||1955: Eighteen Nobel laureates sign the Mainau Declaration against nuclear weapons, later co-signed by thirty-four others.
 
||1961: Nina Bari dies ... mathematician known for her work on trigonometric series. Pic.
 
||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.
 
||1991: Roger Randall Dougan Revelle dies ... scientist and scholar who was instrumental in the formative years of the University of California San Diego and was among the early scientists to study anthropogenic global warming, as well as the movement of Earth's tectonic plates. Pic.
 
||2003: AOL Time Warner disbands Netscape. The Mozilla Foundation is established on the same day.
 
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. After his wartime work, he returned to Cambridge, and worked on group theory.
 
||2006: Twitter is launched, becoming one of the largest social media platforms in the world.


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.  
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.  
File:Phaeton 9.jpg|link=Phaeton 9 (nonfiction)|2016: ''[[Phaeton 9 (nonfiction)|Phaeton 9]]'' voted Picture of the Day by the citizens of [[New Minneapolis, Canada]].


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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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