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||1475 – Luca Gaurico, Italian astrologer (d. 1558)


||1501 – Pietro Andrea Mattioli, Italian scientist (d. 1577)
File:Cover of Filosofia naturale by Alessandro Piccolomini.jpg|link=Alessandro Piccolomini (nonfiction)|1579: Humanist and philosopher [[Alessandro Piccolomini (nonfiction)|Alessandro Piccolomini]] dies. Piccolomini promoted vernacular translations of Latin and Greek scientific and philosophical treatises.
 
||John Theophilus Desaguliers (b. 1683) was a French-born British natural philosopher, clergyman, engineer and freemason who was elected to the Royal Society in 1714 as experimental assistant to Isaac Newton.


File:Gustav Robert Kirchhoff.jpg|link=Gustav Kirchhoff (nonfiction)|1824: Physicist and academic [[Gustav Kirchhoff (nonfiction)|Gustav Kirchhoff]] born. He will contribute to the fundamental understanding of electrical circuits, spectroscopy, and the emission of black-body radiation by heated objects.
File:Gustav Robert Kirchhoff.jpg|link=Gustav Kirchhoff (nonfiction)|1824: Physicist and academic [[Gustav Kirchhoff (nonfiction)|Gustav Kirchhoff]] born. He will contribute to the fundamental understanding of electrical circuits, spectroscopy, and the emission of black-body radiation by heated objects.
||1832 – Charles Friedel, French chemist and mineralogist (d.1899)
||1835 – Simon Newcomb, Canadian-American astronomer and mathematician (d. 1909)
||1838 – William Henry Perkin, English chemist and academic (d. 1907)
||1863 – Vladimir Vernadsky, Russian mineralogist and chemist (d. 1945)
||1880 – Henry Drysdale Dakin, English-American chemist and academic (d. 1952)
||1881 – Gunnar Nordström, Finnish physicist and academic (d. 1923)
File:Alfred North Whitehead.jpg|link=Alfred North Whitehead (nonfiction)|1882: Mathematician and philosopher [[Alfred North Whitehead (nonfiction)|Alfred North Whitehead]] develops new process philosophy using [[Gnomon algorithm functions]], which will later be used to reverse the effects of certain [[crimes against mathematical constants]].


File:Johann Jakob Balmer.jpg|link=Johann Jakob Balmer (nonfiction)|1898: Mathematician and physicist [[Johann Jakob Balmer (nonfiction)|Johann Jakob Balmer]] dies. He developed an empirical formula for the visible spectral lines of the hydrogen atom.
File:Johann Jakob Balmer.jpg|link=Johann Jakob Balmer (nonfiction)|1898: Mathematician and physicist [[Johann Jakob Balmer (nonfiction)|Johann Jakob Balmer]] dies. He developed an empirical formula for the visible spectral lines of the hydrogen atom.
||1907 – Dorrit Hoffleit, American astronomer and academic (d. 2007)
||1914 – George Westinghouse, American engineer and businessman (b. 1846)
||1920 – Roland Fraïssé, French mathematical logician (d. 2008)
File:Radium Jane.jpg|link=Radium Jane|1923: Celebrity time-traveller [[Radium Jane]] falls asleep, relapses into her [[Janet Beta]] state.
||Mihajlo Idvorski Pupin, Ph.D., LL.D. (d. 12 March 1935), also known as Michael I. Pupin was a Serbian American physicist and physical chemist. Pupin is best known for his numerous patents, including a means of greatly extending the range of long-distance telephone communication by placing loading coils (of wire) at predetermined intervals along the transmitting wire (known as "pupinization").
||1942 – Robert Bosch, German engineer and businessman, founded Robert Bosch GmbH (b. 1861)
||1942 – William Henry Bragg, English physicist, chemist, and mathematician, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1862)
||Leonida Tonelli (d. 12 March 1946) was an Italian mathematician, noted for creating Tonelli's theorem, a variation of Fubini's theorem, and for introducing semicontinuity methods as a common tool for the direct method in the calculus of variations.
||1947 – Mary Jean Harrold, American computer scientist and academic (d. 2013)
||1949 – Wilhelm Steinkopf, German chemist (b. 1879)
||1991 – Ragnar Granit, Finnish-Swedish neuroscientist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1900)
||1993 – North Korea nuclear weapons program: North Korea says that it plans to withdraw from the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty and refuses to allow inspectors access to its nuclear sites.
||2011 – A reactor at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant melts and explodes and releases radioactivity into the atmosphere a day after Japan's earthquake.
||2014 – Paul C. Donnelly, American scientist and engineer (b. 1923)


File:Lloyd Shapley (1980).jpg|link=Lloyd Shapley (nonfiction)|2016:  Mathematician and economist [[Lloyd Shapley (nonfiction)|Lloyd Shapley]] dies. He defined game theory as "a mathematical study of conflict and cooperation."
File:Lloyd Shapley (1980).jpg|link=Lloyd Shapley (nonfiction)|2016:  Mathematician and economist [[Lloyd Shapley (nonfiction)|Lloyd Shapley]] dies. He defined game theory as "a mathematical study of conflict and cooperation."


File:Prisoner's dilemma matrix.svg|link=Game theory (nonfiction)|2016: [[Game theory (nonfiction)|Game theory program]] erases itself, unable to bear the death of [[Lloyd Shapley (nonfiction)|Lloyd Shapley]].
File:Ultravore.jpg|link=Ultravore|2017: Synthetic organism [[Ultravore]] consumes twenty kilograms of plutonium dust with no apparent ill effect.
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  • 1579: Humanist and philosopher Alessandro Piccolomini dies. Piccolomini promoted vernacular translations of Latin and Greek scientific and philosophical treatises.

    1579: Humanist and philosopher Alessandro Piccolomini dies. Piccolomini promoted vernacular translations of Latin and Greek scientific and philosophical treatises.

  • 1824: Physicist and academic Gustav Kirchhoff born. He will contribute to the fundamental understanding of electrical circuits, spectroscopy, and the emission of black-body radiation by heated objects.

    1824: Physicist and academic Gustav Kirchhoff born. He will contribute to the fundamental understanding of electrical circuits, spectroscopy, and the emission of black-body radiation by heated objects.

  • 1898: Mathematician and physicist Johann Jakob Balmer dies. He developed an empirical formula for the visible spectral lines of the hydrogen atom.

    1898: Mathematician and physicist Johann Jakob Balmer dies. He developed an empirical formula for the visible spectral lines of the hydrogen atom.

  • 2016: Mathematician and economist Lloyd Shapley dies. He defined game theory as "a mathematical study of conflict and cooperation."

    2016: Mathematician and economist Lloyd Shapley dies. He defined game theory as "a mathematical study of conflict and cooperation."

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