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||1719 – Abraham Gotthelf Kästner, German mathematician and epigrammatist (d. 1800)
File:Johann Gabriel Doppelmayr.jpg|link=Johann Gabriel Doppelmayr (nonfiction)|1677: Mathematician, astronomer, and cartographer [[Johann Gabriel Doppelmayr (nonfiction)|Johann Gabriel Doppelmayr]] born. He will publish works on mathematics and astronomy, including sundials, spherical trigonometry, and celestial maps and globes, along with biographical information on several hundred mathematicians and instrument makers.


File:Hubert Gautier.jpg|link=Hubert Gautier (nonfiction)|1737: Mathematician and engineer [[Hubert Gautier (nonfiction)|Hubert Gautier]] dies. Gautier wrote several published works on engineering, civil engineering and geology.  
||1719: Abraham Kästner born ... mathematician and epigrammatist. Pic.


||1783 – Étienne Bézout, French mathematician and theorist (b. 1730)
File:Hubert Gautier.jpg|link=Hubert Gautier (nonfiction)|1737: Physician, mathematician, and engineer [[Hubert Gautier (nonfiction)|Hubert Gautier]] dies. He authored the first book on bridge building, ''Traité des Ponts'', in 1716, as well as books on roads, fortifications, antiquities, geology, and a first manual for watercolor practitioners.


||1818 – Hermann Kolbe, German chemist and academic (d. 1884) Hermann Kolbe (Adolph Wilhelm Hermann Kolbe, 27 September 1818 – 25 November 1884), was a seminal contributor in the birth of modern organic chemistry. He was a Professor at Marburg and Leipzig. Kolbe coined the term synthesis and contributed to the philosophical demise of vitalism through synthesis of the organic substance acetic acid from carbon disulfide, and also contributed to the development of structural theory.
File:Etienne Bezout.jpg|link=Étienne Bézout (nonfiction)|1783: Mathematician [[Étienne Bézout (nonfiction)|Étienne Bézout]] dies. His ''Théorie générale des équations algébriques'' contained much new and valuable matter on the theory of elimination and symmetrical functions of the roots of an equation.


||1822 – Jean-François Champollion announces that he has deciphered the Rosetta Stone.
||17844: Agustín de Iturbide born ... general and emperor. Although Iturbide's reign was short, it defined the political struggles before and after independence. Pic.


||1843 – Gaston Tarry, French mathematician and academic (d. 1913)
||1814: Daniel Kirkwood born ... astronomer. Pic.


||1879 – Hans Hahn, Austrian mathematician and philosopher (d. 1934)
||1818: Hermann Kolbe born ... chemist and academic ... seminal contributor in the birth of modern organic chemistry. He was a Professor at Marburg and Leipzig. Kolbe coined the term synthesis and contributed to the philosophical demise of vitalism through synthesis of the organic substance acetic acid from carbon disulfide, and also contributed to the development of structural theory. Pic.


||1885 – Harry Blackstone, Sr., American magician (d. 1965)
||1822: Jean-François Champollion announces that he has deciphered the Rosetta Stone. Pic.


||1905 – The physics journal Annalen der Physik received Albert Einstein's paper, "Does the Inertia of a Body Depend Upon Its Energy Content?", introducing the equation E=mc².
||1824: Benjamin Apthorp Gould born ... astronomer. He is noted for founding the ''Astronomical Journal'', discovering the Gould Belt, and for founding of the Argentine National Observatory and the Argentine National Weather Service. Pic.


||1917 – Carl Ballantine, American magician and actor (d. 2009)
||1838: Bernard Courtois born ... chemist ... first isolated iodine and morphine. Pic search.


||1918 – Martin Ryle, English astronomer and author, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1984)
||1843: Gaston Tarry born ... mathematician and academic. He pursued mathematics as an amateur, his most famous achievement being his confirmation in 1901 of Leonhard Euler's conjecture that no 6×6 Graeco-Latin square was possible. Pic.


||1919 – James H. Wilkinson, American mathematician and computer scientist (d. 1986)
||1855: Paul Appell born ... mathematician and Rector of the University of Paris. The concept of Appell polynomials is named after him. Pic.


||1924 – Fred Singer, Austrian-American physicist and academic
File:Hans Hahn.jpg|link=Hans Hahn (nonfiction)|1879: Mathematician and philosopher [[Hans Hahn (nonfiction)|Hans Hahn]] born. He will make contributions to functional analysis, topology, set theory, the calculus of variations, real analysis, and order theory.


File:Edmund Husserl 1910s.jpg|link=Edmund Husserl (nonfiction)|1938: Mathematician and philosopher [[Edmund Husserl (nonfiction)|Edmund Husserl]] publishes new class of [[Gnomon algorithm functions]] based on transcendental consciousness as the limit of all possible knowledge.
||1882: Joseph Thomas Clover dies ... doctor and pioneer of anaesthesia. He invented a variety of pieces of apparatus to deliver anaesthetics including ether and chloroform safely and controllably. By 1871 he had administered anaesthetics 13,000 times without a fatality. Pic.


||1956 – USAF Captain Milburn G. Apt becomes the first man to exceed Mach 3 while flying the Bell X-2. Shortly thereafter, the craft goes out of control and Captain Apt is killed.
||1885: Harry Blackstone, Sr., born ... magician. Pic.
 
||1902: Hans Petersson born ... mathematician. He introduced the Petersson inner product and is also known for the Ramanujan–Petersson conjecture. Petersson was a member of the NSDAP. Pic search.
 
File:Albert Einstein 1921.jpg|link=Albert Einstein (nonfiction)|1905: The physics journal ''Annalen der Physik'' received [[Albert Einstein (nonfiction)|Albert Einstein]]'s paper, "Does the Inertia of a Body Depend Upon Its Energy Content?", introducing the equation E=mc².
 
||1907: Wu Ta-You born ... atomic and nuclear theoretical physicist who worked in the United States, Canada, mainland China and Taiwan. He has been called the "Father of Chinese Physics." Pic.
 
||1907: Thede Palm born ... Swedish historian of religion, director of research and head of military intelligence. Pic search.
 
||1911: Auguste Michel-Lévy dies ... geologist and author. Michel-Levy pioneered the use of birefringence to identify minerals in thin section with a petrographic microscope. He is widely known for the Michel-Lévy interference color chart, which defines the interference colors from different orders of birefringence. Pic.
 
||1913: Sidney Michael Dancoff born ... theoretical physicist best known for the Tamm–Dancoff approximation method and for nearly developing a renormalization method for solving quantum electrodynamics (QED). Pic search.
 
||1917: Carl Ballantine born ... magician and actor. Pic.
 
||1918: Martin Ryle born ... astronomer and author, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic.
 
||1919: James H. Wilkinson born ... mathematician and computer scientist. https://www.google.com/search?q=James+H.+Wilkinson
 
File:Hans Weinberger.jpg|link=Hans Weinberger (nonfiction)|1928: Mathematician and academic [[Hans Weinberger (nonfiction)|Hans F. Weinberger]] born. He will contribute to variational methods for eigenvalue problems, partial differential equations, and fluid dynamics.
 
||Marcia Neugebauer born ... geophysicist who made contributions to space physics. Neugebauer's research was among the first that yielded the first direct measurements of the solar wind and shed light on its physics and interaction with comets. (Alive April 2020.) Pic.
 
||1940: Julius Wagner-Jauregg dies ... physician and academic, Nobel Prize laureate ... the first psychiatrist to have done so. His Nobel award was "for his discovery of the therapeutic value of malaria inoculation in the treatment of dementia paralytica". Pic.
 
||1945: Paleontologist Charles Whitney Gilmore dies ... gained renown in the early 20th century for his work on vertebrate fossils during his career at the United States National Museum (now the National Museum of Natural History). Pic.
 
||1956: USAF Captain Milburn G. Apt becomes the first man to exceed Mach 3 while flying the Bell X-2. Shortly thereafter, the craft goes out of control and Captain Apt is killed. Pic.
 
||1961: Harry Traver dies ... engineer and early roller coaster designer. As the founder of the Traver Engineering Company, Traver was responsible for the production of gentle amusement rides like the Tumble Bug and Auto Ride. However, Traver's coasters became legendary for their unique twisted layouts and thrilling, swooped turns. At a time when most coasters were built from wood, Traver was the first coaster builder to utilize steel for the primary structural material. Pic search.


File:Silent Spring by Rachel carson.jpg|link=Silent Spring (nonfiction)|1962: Rachel Carson's book ''[[Silent Spring (nonfiction)|Silent Spring]]'' is published, inspiring an environmental movement and the creation of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
File:Silent Spring by Rachel carson.jpg|link=Silent Spring (nonfiction)|1962: Rachel Carson's book ''[[Silent Spring (nonfiction)|Silent Spring]]'' is published, inspiring an environmental movement and the creation of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.


||1972 – S. R. Ranganathan, Indian mathematician, librarian, and academic (b. 1892)
||1965: Hubert Schardin Hermann Reinhold dies ... ballistics expert, engineer and academic who studied in the field of high-speed photography and cinematography. Pic.


||1983 – Richard Stallman announces the GNU Project to develop a free Unix-like operating system.
||1972: S. R. Ranganathan dies ... mathematician, librarian, and academic. Pic.
 
||1997: William Leonard Edge dies ... mathematician most known for his work in finite geometry. In the 1950s Edge began to explore vector spaces over Galois fields as an entry to finite geometry. Points and lines of finite projective geometry arise as lines and planes in these spaces, and the projectivities of these spaces provide representation of some finite groups. Pic: http://hodge.maths.ed.ac.uk/tiki/William+Edge
 
||1983: Richard Stallman announces the GNU Project to develop a free Unix-like operating system. Pic.


||1986: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balloonfest_'86
||1986: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balloonfest_'86


|File:Emmy Noether.jpg|link=Emmy Noether (nonfiction)|1905: Mathematician [[Emmy Noether (nonfiction)|Emmy Noether]] uses [[Gnomon algorithm]] to fight [[crimes against mathematical constants]].
||2003: SMART-1 satellite is launched.
|File:Exponential-growth-diagram.svg|link=Crimes against mathematical constants|1933: New class of [[Crimes against mathematical constants]] "are nothing more than smoke and mirrors."
 
|File:Hilbert_curve.gif|link=Hilbert Curve (nonfiction)|1935: [[Hilbert curve (nonfiction)|Hilbert curve]] confirms that several recent "[[crimes against mathematical constants]]" are hoaxes.
||2006: Helmut Kallmeyer dies ... chemist and soldier ... served as a consultant in Adolf Hitler's Chancellery (Kanzlei des Führers) for gasification methods. Later, he worked in the Technical Institute for the Detection of Crime (Kriminaltechnisches Institut der Sicherheitspolizei, KTI). He was involved in Action T4, Nazi Germany's program to murder people with disabilities. Pic search.
 
||2007: Photojournalist Kenji Nagai shot and killed ... Nagai took many assignments to conflict zones and dangerous areas around the world. He was shot dead in Myanmar (also known as Burma) during the Saffron Revolution. Nagai continued to take photographs as he lay wounded on the ground, later dying from gunshot injuries to the chest. He was the only foreign national killed in the protests.


File:Dawn spacecraft model.png|link=Dawn (spacecraft) (nonfiction)|2007: NASA launches the ''[[Dawn (spacecraft) (nonfiction)|Dawn]]'' space probe. It is NASA's first purely exploratory mission to use ion propulsion. ''[[Dawn (spacecraft) (nonfiction)|Dawn]]'' will study Vesta and Ceres, two of the three known protoplanets of the asteroid belt.


||2003 – SMART-1 satellite is launched.
||2009: Alice T. Schafer dies ... mathematician. As a teacher, Alice especially reached out to students who had difficulties with or were afraid of mathematics, by designing special classes for them.  Pic search.


||Sept. 27 2007 – NASA launched the Dawn probe, its first purely exploratory mission to use ion propulsion, from Cape Canaveral.
||2010: Lars Svenonius dies ... logician and philosopher. He contributed to model theory;  Svenonius' Theorem states that if the interpretation of a predicate in any model of a first-order theory is invariant under permutations ("automorphisms") of the model fixing the other predicates, then the interpretation of that predicate is definable in every model by a formula involving only the other predicates; furthermore only finitely many such defining formulas are required. Pic search.


File:Asclepius Myrmidon Prepares for Emergency Field Surgery.jpg|link=Asclepius Myrmidon Prepares for Emergency Field Surgery|2017: The well-known illustration ''Asclepius Myrmidon Prepares for Emergency Field Surgery'' sells for seven million dollars at charity benefit for victims of [[crimes against mathematical constants]].
||2014: Dorothy Maharam Stone dies ... mathematician born in Parkersburg, West Virginia, who made important contributions to measure theory and became the namesake of Maharam's theorem and Maharam algebra. Pic: https://www.agnesscott.edu/lriddle/women/stone.htm


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  • 1677: Mathematician, astronomer, and cartographer Johann Gabriel Doppelmayr born. He will publish works on mathematics and astronomy, including sundials, spherical trigonometry, and celestial maps and globes, along with biographical information on several hundred mathematicians and instrument makers.

    1677: Mathematician, astronomer, and cartographer Johann Gabriel Doppelmayr born. He will publish works on mathematics and astronomy, including sundials, spherical trigonometry, and celestial maps and globes, along with biographical information on several hundred mathematicians and instrument makers.

  • 1737: Physician, mathematician, and engineer Hubert Gautier dies. He authored the first book on bridge building, Traité des Ponts, in 1716, as well as books on roads, fortifications, antiquities, geology, and a first manual for watercolor practitioners.

    1737: Physician, mathematician, and engineer Hubert Gautier dies. He authored the first book on bridge building, Traité des Ponts, in 1716, as well as books on roads, fortifications, antiquities, geology, and a first manual for watercolor practitioners.

  • 1783: Mathematician Étienne Bézout dies. His Théorie générale des équations algébriques contained much new and valuable matter on the theory of elimination and symmetrical functions of the roots of an equation.

    1783: Mathematician Étienne Bézout dies. His Théorie générale des équations algébriques contained much new and valuable matter on the theory of elimination and symmetrical functions of the roots of an equation.

  • 1879: Mathematician and philosopher Hans Hahn born. He will make contributions to functional analysis, topology, set theory, the calculus of variations, real analysis, and order theory.

    1879: Mathematician and philosopher Hans Hahn born. He will make contributions to functional analysis, topology, set theory, the calculus of variations, real analysis, and order theory.

  • 1905: The physics journal Annalen der Physik received Albert Einstein's paper, "Does the Inertia of a Body Depend Upon Its Energy Content?", introducing the equation E=mc².

    1905: The physics journal Annalen der Physik received Albert Einstein's paper, "Does the Inertia of a Body Depend Upon Its Energy Content?", introducing the equation E=mc².

  • 1928: Mathematician and academic Hans F. Weinberger born. He will contribute to variational methods for eigenvalue problems, partial differential equations, and fluid dynamics.

    1928: Mathematician and academic Hans F. Weinberger born. He will contribute to variational methods for eigenvalue problems, partial differential equations, and fluid dynamics.

  • 1962: Rachel Carson's book Silent Spring is published, inspiring an environmental movement and the creation of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.

    1962: Rachel Carson's book Silent Spring is published, inspiring an environmental movement and the creation of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.

  • 2007: NASA launches the Dawn space probe. It is NASA's first purely exploratory mission to use ion propulsion. Dawn will study Vesta and Ceres, two of the three known protoplanets of the asteroid belt.

    2007: NASA launches the Dawn space probe. It is NASA's first purely exploratory mission to use ion propulsion. Dawn will study Vesta and Ceres, two of the three known protoplanets of the asteroid belt.

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