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| ||AD 51 – Nero, later to become Roman emperor, is given the title ''princeps iuventutis'' (head of the youth).
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| File:Abd al-Rahman al-Sufi.jpg|link=Abd al-Rahman al-Sufi (nonfiction)|928: Astronomer [[Abd al-Rahman al-Sufi (nonfiction)|Abd al-Rahman al-Sufi]] uses [[Gnomon algorithm]] to solve [[crimes against mathematical constants]].
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| ||1394 – Prince Henry the Navigator, Portuguese patron of exploration (d. 1460)
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| ||1519 – Hernán Cortés arrives in Mexico in search of the Aztec civilization and its wealth.
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| ||1634 – Kazimierz Łyszczyński, Polish philosopher (d. 1689) Executed for writing "De non existentia Dei" (On the non-existence of God)
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| ||1675 – John Flamsteed is appointed the first Astronomer Royal of England.
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| File:Jack Sheppard - Thornhill.jpg|link=Jack Sheppard (nonfiction)|1702: Thief [[Jack Sheppard (nonfiction)|Jack Sheppard]] born. He will be arrested and imprisoned five times in 1724 but escape four times from prison, making him a notorious public figure, and wildly popular with the poorer classes. | | File:Jack Sheppard - Thornhill.jpg|link=Jack Sheppard (nonfiction)|1702: Thief [[Jack Sheppard (nonfiction)|Jack Sheppard]] born. He will be arrested and imprisoned five times in 1724 but escape four times from prison, making him a notorious public figure, and wildly popular with the poorer classes. |
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| ||1760 – Hugh Ronalds, British nurseryman who cultivated and documented 300 varieties of apples (d. 1833)
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| ||1790 – France is divided into 83 départements, cutting across the former provinces in an attempt to dislodge regional loyalties based on ownership of land by the nobility.
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| ||1792 – Isaac Lea, American conchologist, geologist, and publisher (d. 1886)
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| ||1822 – Jules Antoine Lissajous, French mathematician and academic (d. 1880)
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| ||1826 – Theodore Judah, American engineer, founded the Central Pacific Railroad (d. 1863)
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| ||1853 – Christian Leopold von Buch, German geologist and paleontologist (b. 1774)
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| ||1837 – The city of Chicago is incorporated.
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| ||1847 – Carl Josef Bayer, Austrian chemist and academic (d. 1904)
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| ||1862 – Jacob Robert Emden, Swiss astrophysicist and meteorologist (d. 1940)
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| ||1866 – Eugène Cosserat, French mathematician and astronomer (d. 1931)
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| ||1871 – Boris Galerkin, Russian mathematician and engineer (d. 1945)
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| ||1876 – Theodore Hardeen, Hungarian-American magician (d. 1945)
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| ||1877 – Garrett Morgan, African-American inventor (d. 1963)
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| File:Tolman and Einstein.jpg|link=Richard C. Tolman (nonfiction)|1881: Physicist and chemist [[Richard C. Tolman (nonfiction)|Richard C. Tolman]] born. He will make important contributions to theoretical cosmology in the years soon after Einstein's discovery of general relativity. | | File:Tolman and Einstein.jpg|link=Richard C. Tolman (nonfiction)|1881: Physicist and chemist [[Richard C. Tolman (nonfiction)|Richard C. Tolman]] born. He will make important contributions to theoretical cosmology in the years soon after Einstein's discovery of general relativity. |
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| ||1882 – Britain's first electric trams run in east London.
| | File:Stillsuit of the Night.jpg|link=Stillsuit of the Night|'''''[[Stillsuit of the Night]]''''' is a 1982 neo-noir psychological thriller film about a Suk doctor (Roy Scheider) who falls in love with a Fremen (Meryl Streep) who may be the psychopathic killer of one of his patients. |
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| ||1889 – Oscar Chisini, Italian mathematician and statistician (d. 1967)
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| ||1893 – Charles Herbert Colvin, American engineer, co-founded the Pioneer Instrument Company (d. 1985)
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| ||1901 – Wilbur R. Franks, Canadian scientist, invented the g-suit (d. 1986)
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| ||1903 – Malcolm Dole, American chemist and academic (d. 1990)
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| ||1903 – John Scarne, American magician and author (d. 1985)
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| ||1904 – George Gamow, Ukrainian-American physicist and cosmologist (d. 1968)
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| ||1909 – George Edward Holbrook, American chemist and engineer (d. 1987)
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| ||1914 – Ward Kimball, American animator, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2002)
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| ||1914 – Robert R. Wilson, American physicist, sculptor, and architect (d. 2000)
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| ||1915 – William Willett, English inventor, founded British Summer Time (b. 1856)
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| ||1923 – Patrick Moore, English astronomer and television host (d. 2012)
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| ||1927 – Ira Remsen, American chemist and academic (b. 1846)
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| File:Carnivorous_airships_circa_1930-31.jpg|link=Carnivorous dirigible|1931: US Navy says [[Carnivorous dirigible|Carnivorous dirigibles]] cannot be tamed, should be put down. | |
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| ||1932 – Ed Roth, American illustrator (d. 2001)
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| ||1934 – Janez Strnad, Slovenian physicist and academic (d. 2015) Janez Strnad (March 4, 1934 – November 28, 2015) was a Slovene physicist and popularizer of natural science.
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| ||1935 – Bent Larsen, Danish chess player and author (d. 2010)
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| ||1944 – Louis Buchalter, American mob boss (b. 1897)
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| ||1944 – Louis Capone, Italian-American gangster (b. 1896)
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| ||1954 – Mark Chorvinsky, American magician and author (d. 2005)
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| ||1970 – French submarine Eurydice explodes underwater, resulting in the loss of the entire 57-man crew.
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| ||1976 – Walter H. Schottky, Swiss-German physicist and engineer (b. 1886)
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| ||1986 – The Soviet Vega 1 begins returning images of Halley's Comet and the first images of its nucleus.
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| ||1986 – Albert L. Lehninger, American biochemist and academic (b. 1917)
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| ||1993 – Izaak Kolthoff, Dutch chemist and academic (b. 1894) | | File:Hing Tong.jpg|link=Hing Tong (nonfiction)|2007: Mathematician [[Hing Tong (nonfiction)|Hing Tong]] dies. He made contributions to algebraic topology, including a proof of the Katetov–Tong insertion theorem. |
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| ||1997 – Robert H. Dicke, American physicist and astronomer (b. 1916) Robert Henry Dicke (/ˈdɪki/; May 6, 1916 – March 4, 1997) was an American physicist who made important contributions to the fields of astrophysics, atomic physics, cosmology and gravity. | |
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| ||2000 – Hermann Brück, German-Scottish physicist and astronomer (b. 1905)
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| ||2001 – Gerardo Barbero, Argentinian chess player (b. 1961)
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| ||2001 – Fred Lasswell, American cartoonist (b. 1916)
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| ||2006 – John Reynolds Gardiner, American author and engineer (b. 1944)
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| File:Gary Gygax Gen Con 2007.jpg|link=Gary Gygax (nonfiction)|2008: Game designer [[Gary Gygax (nonfiction)|Gary Gygax]] dies. He co-created the pioneering role-playing game [[Dungeons & Dragons (nonfiction)|Dungeons & Dragons]] (D&D) with Dave Arneson. | | File:Gary Gygax Gen Con 2007.jpg|link=Gary Gygax (nonfiction)|2008: Game designer [[Gary Gygax (nonfiction)|Gary Gygax]] dies. He co-created the pioneering role-playing game [[Dungeons & Dragons (nonfiction)|Dungeons & Dragons]] (D&D) with Dave Arneson. |
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| ||Hing Tong (d. 4 March 2007) was a leading American mathematician. He is well known for providing the original proof of the Katetov–Tong insertion theorem.
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| ||2011 – Alenush Terian, Iranian astronomer and physicist (b. 1920)
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| ||2011 – Simon van der Meer, Dutch-Swiss physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1925)
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| ||2014 – Jack Kinzler, American engineer (b. 1920)
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| File:Cantor Parabola and Gnotilus at Athens.jpg|link=Cantor Parabola and Gnotilus at Athens|2016: ''[[Cantor Parabola and Gnotilus at Athens]]'' hailed as "a triumph of art and crime-fighting."
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