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||1625 – Johann Bayer, German lawyer and cartographer (b. 1572)


File:Bartolomeu Lourenço de Gusmão.jpg|link=Bartolomeu de Gusmão (nonfiction)|1705: Inventor and priest [[Bartolomeu de Gusmão (nonfiction)|Bartolomeu de Gusmão]] uses [[Gnomon algorithm functions]] to communicate with [[D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson (nonfiction)|D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson]].
File:Joseph_Nicéphore_Niépce.jpg|link=Nicéphore Niépce (nonfiction)|1765: Inventor [[Nicéphore Niépce (nonfiction)|Nicéphore Niépce]] born. He will invent heliography, a technique he will use to create the world's oldest surviving product of a photographic process.
 
||1765 – Nicéphore Niépce, French inventor, invented photography (d. 1833)


File:Antoine Becquerel.jpg|link=Antoine César Becquerel (nonfiction)|1788: Physicist and academic [[Antoine César Becquerel (nonfiction)|Antoine César Becquerel]] born. He will pioneer the study of electric and luminescent phenomena.
File:Antoine Becquerel.jpg|link=Antoine César Becquerel (nonfiction)|1788: Physicist and academic [[Antoine César Becquerel (nonfiction)|Antoine César Becquerel]] born. He will pioneer the study of electric and luminescent phenomena.


||1792 – John Herschel, English mathematician and astronomer (d. 1871)
File:G I Taylor.jpg|link=G. I. Taylor (nonfiction)|1886: Mathematician and physicist [[G. I. Taylor (nonfiction)|G. I. Taylor]] born. He will make major contributions to fluid dynamics and wave theory.  
 
||1809 – Jean-Pierre Blanchard, French inventor, best known as a pioneer in balloon flight (b. 1753)
 
||1837 – Henry Draper, American physician and astronomer (d. 1882)
 
||1839 – Ludwig Mond, German-born chemist and British industrialist who discovered the metal carbonyls (d. 1909)
 
||1857 – Julius Wagner-Jauregg, Austrian physician and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1940)
 
File:Alexander Graham Bell.jpg|link=Alexander Graham Bell (nonfiction)|1876: [[Alexander Graham Bell (nonfiction)]] is granted a patent for an invention he calls the "telephone".
 
File:Gambling Den Fight.jpg|link=Gambling Den Fight|1875: ''[[Gambling Den Fight]]'' wins Royal Society award for most exciting new illustration of the year.
 
File:G I Taylor.jpg|link=G. I. Taylor (nonfiction)|1886: Mathematician and physicist [[G. I. Taylor (nonfiction)|G. I. Taylor]] born. He will make major contributions to fluid dynamics and wave theory.
 
||1917 – Betty Holberton, American engineer and programmer (d. 2001)
 
||1922 – Olga Ladyzhenskaya, Russian mathematician and academic (d. 2004)


File:D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson.jpg|link=D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson (nonfiction)|1937: [[D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson (nonfiction)|D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson]]  uses [[Gnomon algorithm functions]] to communicate with [[Bartolomeu de Gusmão (nonfiction)|Bartolomeu de Gusmão]].
File:Betty Holberton.jpg|link=Betty Holberton (nonfiction)|1917: Pioneering computer scientist and programmer [[Betty Holberton (nonfiction)|Betty Holberton]] born. She will be one of the six original programmers of ENIAC, the first general-purpose electronic digital computer, and the inventor of breakpoints in computer debugging.


File:Klaus Fuchs.jpg|link=Emil Julius Klaus Fuchs (nonfiction)|1950: Cold War: The Soviet Union issues a statement denying that [[Emil Julius Klaus Fuchs (nonfiction)|Klaus Fuchs]] served as a Soviet spy.
File:Klaus Fuchs.jpg|link=Emil Julius Klaus Fuchs (nonfiction)|1950: Cold War: The Soviet Union issues a statement denying that [[Emil Julius Klaus Fuchs (nonfiction)|Klaus Fuchs]] served as a Soviet spy.


||1954 – Otto Diels, German chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1876)
File:Confessions of a Quantum Artist-Engineer.jpg|link=Confessions of a Quantum Artist-Engineer (1)|2019: Steganographic analysis of ''[[Confessions of a Quantum Artist-Engineer (1)]]'' unexpectedly reveals "at least two-hundred and fifty-six kilobytes" of previously unknown Gnomon algorithm functions.
 
||Eduard Rüchardt (d. March 7, 1962) was a German physicist. In modern times Rüchardt is mainly noted for the experiment named after him. However, Rüchardt's chief topic was the study of canal rays.
 
||1971 – Richard Montague, American mathematician and philosopher (b. 1930)
 
||1982 – Ida Barney, American astronomer, mathematician, and academic (b. 1886)
 
||Edward Mills Purcell (d. March 7, 1997) was an American physicist who shared the 1952 Nobel Prize for Physics for his independent discovery (published 1946) of nuclear magnetic resonance in liquids and in solids. Nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) has become widely used to study the molecular structure of pure materials and the composition of mixtures.
 
||1986 – Challenger Disaster: Divers from the USS Preserver locate the crew cabin of Challenger on the ocean floor.
 
||1997 – Edward Mills Purcell, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1912)


||1999 – Sidney Gottlieb, American chemist and theorist (b. 1918)


||1999 – Stanley Kubrick, American director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1928) Stanley Kubrick (d. March 7, 1999) was an American film director, screenwriter, producer, cinematographer, editor, and photographer. He is frequently cited as one of the greatest and most influential directors in cinematic history. His films, which are mostly adaptations of novels or short stories, cover a wide range of genres, and are noted for their realism, dark humor, unique cinematography, extensive set designs, and evocative use of music.


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  • 1765: Inventor Nicéphore Niépce born. He will invent heliography, a technique he will use to create the world's oldest surviving product of a photographic process.

    1765: Inventor Nicéphore Niépce born. He will invent heliography, a technique he will use to create the world's oldest surviving product of a photographic process.

  • 1788: Physicist and academic Antoine César Becquerel born. He will pioneer the study of electric and luminescent phenomena.

    1788: Physicist and academic Antoine César Becquerel born. He will pioneer the study of electric and luminescent phenomena.

  • 1886: Mathematician and physicist G. I. Taylor born. He will make major contributions to fluid dynamics and wave theory.

    1886: Mathematician and physicist G. I. Taylor born. He will make major contributions to fluid dynamics and wave theory.

  • 1917: Pioneering computer scientist and programmer Betty Holberton born. She will be one of the six original programmers of ENIAC, the first general-purpose electronic digital computer, and the inventor of breakpoints in computer debugging.

    1917: Pioneering computer scientist and programmer Betty Holberton born. She will be one of the six original programmers of ENIAC, the first general-purpose electronic digital computer, and the inventor of breakpoints in computer debugging.

  • 1950: Cold War: The Soviet Union issues a statement denying that Klaus Fuchs served as a Soviet spy.

    1950: Cold War: The Soviet Union issues a statement denying that Klaus Fuchs served as a Soviet spy.

  • 2019: Steganographic analysis of Confessions of a Quantum Artist-Engineer (1) unexpectedly reveals "at least two-hundred and fifty-six kilobytes" of previously unknown Gnomon algorithm functions.

    2019: Steganographic analysis of Confessions of a Quantum Artist-Engineer (1) unexpectedly reveals "at least two-hundred and fifty-six kilobytes" of previously unknown Gnomon algorithm functions.

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