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|File:Pierre de Fermat.jpg|link=Pierre de Fermat (nonfiction)|1627: Mathematician [[Pierre de Fermat (nonfiction)|Pierre de Fermat]] uses [[Gnomon algorithm]] techniques to fight [[crimes against mathematical constants]].


||Lambert Adolphe Jacques Quetelet (b. 22 February 1796) ForMemRS was a Belgian astronomer, mathematician, statistician and sociologist.
File:Galileo by Leoni.jpg|link=Galileo Galilei (nonfiction)|1632: [[Galileo Galilei (nonfiction)|Galileo]]'s ''Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems'' is published.


||Nikolay Yakovlevich Sonin (b. February 22, 1849) was a Russian mathematician.
File:Galileo Galilei.jpg|link=Galileo Galilei|1633: Astronomer, physicist, engineer, philosopher, mathematician, and crime-fighter [[Galileo Galilei]] calls the [[House of Malevecchio]] "a dynasty built on [[Crimes against physical constants|crimes against physics]]."


File:Justin Virgilius Capră.jpg|link=Justin Capră (nonfiction)|1933: Engineer and inventor [[Justin Capră (nonfiction)|Justin Capră]] born. He will design fuel-efficient cars, unconventional engines, aircraft, and jet backpacks.
File:Carl Wilhelm Borchardt.jpg|link=Carl Wilhelm Borchardt (nonfiction)|1817: Mathematician and academic [[Carl Wilhelm Borchardt (nonfiction)|Carl Wilhelm Borchardt]] born. He will contribute to arithmetic-geometric mean theory, continuing work by Gauss and Lagrange.  
 
||Max Karl Werner Wien (d. 22 February 1938) was a German physicist and the director of the Institute of Physics at the University of Jena.
 
||Karl Adolf Hessenberg (September 8, 1904 – February 22, 1959) was a German mathematician and engineer. The Hessenberg matrix form is named after him.
 
File:Vandal Savage solar eclipse.jpg|link=Vandal Savage (nonfiction)|1973: [[Vandal Savage (nonfiction)|Vandal Savage]] uses solar eclipse to manufacture large quantity of military-grade [[clandestiphrine]].
 
||Michael Polanyi, FRS (d. 22 February 1976) was a Hungarian-British polymath, who made important theoretical contributions to physical chemistry, economics, and philosophy. He argued that positivism supplies a false account of knowing, which if taken seriously undermines humanity's highest achievements.
 
||Maxwell Herman Alexander "Max" Newman, FRS (d. 22 February 1984) was a British mathematician and codebreaker.


File:Andy Warhol.jpg|link=Andy Warhol (nonfiction)|1987: Artist [[Andy Warhol (nonfiction)|Andy Warhol]] dies. He was a leading figure in the [[Pop art (nonfiction)|Pop art]] movement.
File:Andy Warhol.jpg|link=Andy Warhol (nonfiction)|1987: Artist [[Andy Warhol (nonfiction)|Andy Warhol]] dies. He was a leading figure in the [[Pop art (nonfiction)|Pop art]] movement.


File:Dame Mary Lucy Cartwright.jpg|link=Mary Cartwright (nonfiction)|1988: Mathematician and academic [[Mary Cartwright (nonfiction)|Mary Cartwright]] uses chaos theory principles to detect and prevent [[crimes against mathematical constants]].
File:Kh-4b corona.jpg|link=Corona (satellite) (nonfiction)|1995: The [[Corona (satellite) (nonfiction)|Corona reconnaissance satellite program]], in existence from 1959 to 1972, is declassified.


File:Kh-4b corona.jpg|link=Corona (satellite) (nonfiction)|1995: The [[Corona (satellite) (nonfiction)|Corona reconnaissance satellite program]], in existence from 1959 to 1972, is declassified.
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