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||1509: Étienne Dolet born ... scholar and translator. Pic search.
||1546: Étienne Dolet dies ... scholar and translator. Pic search.
||1747: Diderot and d'Alembert became directors of ''Encyclopedie'' project. They replaced de Gua, who had earlier done much to systematize analytic geometry, as director of the publishing project which was to become the celebrated ''Encyclopedie''. Pic.
File:Sir Richard Arkwright by Mather Brown 1790.jpg|link=Richard Arkwright (nonfiction)|1792: Inventor, engineer, and businessman [[Richard Arkwright (nonfiction)|Richard Arkwright]] dies. Later in his life Arkwright was known as the "father of the modern industrial factory system." Pic.
||1806: Michel Adanson dies ... botanist, entomologist, and mycologist. Pic.
||1844: Marcel-Auguste Dieulafoy born ... archaeologist and engineer ... noted for his excavations at Susa (modern-day Shush, Iran) in 1885 and for his work, L'Art antique de la Perse. Pic.
||1851: George Francis FitzGerald FRS born ... professor of "natural and experimental philosophy" (i.e., physics) at Trinity College in Dublin, Ireland, during the last quarter of the 19th century. FitzGerald is known for his work in electromagnetic theory and for the Lorentz–FitzGerald contraction, which became an integral part of Einstein's special theory of relativity. Pic.
||1860: William Kennedy Dickson born ... inventor who devised an early motion picture camera under the employment of Thomas Edison (post-dating the work of Louis Le Prince). Pic.
||1887: Otto Marcin Nikodym born ... mathematician. He worked in a wide range of areas, but his best-known early work was his contribution to the development of the Lebesgue–Radon–Nikodym integral (see Radon–Nikodym theorem). Pic.
||1911: Joseph E. Gillis born ... mathematician and academic. He contributed to fractal sets, fluid dynamics, random walks, and pioneered the combinatorial theory of special functions of mathematical physics. Pic search.
||1914: Mark Kac born ... mathematician. His main interest was probability theory. His question, "Can one hear the shape of a drum?" set off research into spectral theory, with the idea of understanding the extent to which the spectrum allows one to read back the geometry. (In the end, the answer was "no", in general.) Pic.
||1914: Louis Couturat dies ... logician, mathematician, philosopher, and linguist. Pic.
File:Georg Frobenius.jpg|link=Ferdinand Georg Frobenius (nonfiction)|1917: Mathematician and academic [[Ferdinand Georg Frobenius (nonfiction)|Ferdinand Georg Frobenius]] dies. He made contributions to the theory of elliptic functions, differential equations, and group theory.
File:Georg Frobenius.jpg|link=Ferdinand Georg Frobenius (nonfiction)|1917: Mathematician and academic [[Ferdinand Georg Frobenius (nonfiction)|Ferdinand Georg Frobenius]] dies. He made contributions to the theory of elliptic functions, differential equations, and group theory.


File:Nikolay Basov.jpg|link=Nikolay Basov (nonfiction)|1943: Physicist and educator [[Nikolay Basov (nonfiction)|Nikolay Basov]] uses [[Gnomon algorithm functions]] to fight [[crimes against mathematical constants]].
File:Sidney_Gottlieb.jpg|link=Sidney Gottlieb (nonfiction)|1918: Chemist and spymaster [[Sidney Gottlieb (nonfiction)|Sidney Gottlieb]] born.  Gottlieb will be known as "America's Poisoner" for his development of assassination weapons for the CIA, and for his leadership in the [[Project MKUltra (nonfiction)|Project MKUltra]] mind control program.
File:Exponential-growth-diagram.svg|link=Crimes against mathematical constants|1955: "Conspiracy theories of about [[crimes against mathematical constants]] have hidden reserves of of commercial potential."
 
||1922: Mathias Lerch dies ... mathematician who published about 250 papers, largely on mathematical analysis and number theory. The Lerch zeta-function is named after him as is the Appell–Lerch sum. Pic.
 
||1929: Thorstein Veblen, American economist and sociologist.
 
||1929: Emile Berliner, German-American inventor and businessman, invented the phonograph (b. 1851) Emile Berliner (d.  August 3, 1929), originally Emil Berliner, was a German-born American inventor. He is best known for inventing the flat disc phonograph record (called a gramophone record in British English and originally also in American English) and the Gramophone.
 
||1930: Jenifer Wheildon Brown born ... physicist and computer scientist. She is most noted for her formulation of ray tracing equations in a cold magneto-plasma, now widely known in the radio science community as Haselgrove's Equations. Pic search.
 
||1936: Jesse Owens wins the 100 metre dash, defeating Ralph Metcalfe, at the Berlin Olympics.
 
||1942: Richard Willstätter dies ... chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic.
 
||1948: Whittaker Chambers accuses Alger Hiss of being a communist and a spy for the Soviet Union.
 
||1958: US Nuclear submarine, Nautiluss, the first submarine to complete a submerged transit of the North Pole.
 
||1959: Jakob Nielsen dies ... mathematician known for his work on automorphisms of surfaces. Nielsen transformations are certain automorphisms of a free group which are a non-commutative analogue of row reduction and one of the main tools used in studying free groups, introduced by Nielsen to prove that every subgroup of a free group is free (the Nielsen–Schreier theorem), now used in a variety of mathematics, including computational group theory, k-theory, and knot theory.
 
||1977: Tandy Corporation announces the TRS-80, one of the world's first mass-produced personal computers.
 
||1989: Egon Orowan dies ... physicist and metallurgist. Pic.
 
||1994: The K Foundation (an art duo consisting of Bill Drummond and Jimmy Cauty) burned cash in the amount of one million pounds sterling in a disused boathouse on the Ardfin Estate on the Scottish island of Jura. The money represented the bulk of the K Foundation's funds, earned by Drummond and Cauty as The KLF, one of the United Kingdom's most successful pop groups of the early 1990s. Pic.
 
||2008: Bhaskar Kumar Ghosh dies ... statistician especially known for his contributions to sequential analysis. Pic.
 
||2012: Martin Fleischmann dies ... chemist and academic.
 
 
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  • 1792: Inventor, engineer, and businessman Richard Arkwright dies. Later in his life Arkwright was known as the "father of the modern industrial factory system." Pic.

    1792: Inventor, engineer, and businessman Richard Arkwright dies. Later in his life Arkwright was known as the "father of the modern industrial factory system." Pic.

  • 1917: Mathematician and academic Ferdinand Georg Frobenius dies. He made contributions to the theory of elliptic functions, differential equations, and group theory.

    1917: Mathematician and academic Ferdinand Georg Frobenius dies. He made contributions to the theory of elliptic functions, differential equations, and group theory.

  • 1918: Chemist and spymaster Sidney Gottlieb born. Gottlieb will be known as "America's Poisoner" for his development of assassination weapons for the CIA, and for his leadership in the Project MKUltra mind control program.

    1918: Chemist and spymaster Sidney Gottlieb born. Gottlieb will be known as "America's Poisoner" for his development of assassination weapons for the CIA, and for his leadership in the Project MKUltra mind control program.

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