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| ||1490 – Albert, Duke of Prussia, last Grand Master of the Teutonic Knights (d. 1568)
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| ||1551 – Martin Delrio, Belgian occultist and theologian (d. 1601)
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| ||1682 – Bartholomew Roberts, Welsh pirate (d. 1722)
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| ||1749 – Edward Jenner, English physician and microbiologist (d. 1823)
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| File:Alexis Clairault.jpg|link=Alexis Clairaut (nonfiction)|1765: Mathematician, astronomer, and geophysicist [[Alexis Clairaut (nonfiction)|Alexis Clairaut]] dies. His work helped to establish the validity of the principles and results that Sir Isaac Newton had outlined in the ''Principia'' of 1687. | | File:Alexis Clairault.jpg|link=Alexis Clairaut (nonfiction)|1765: Mathematician, astronomer, and geophysicist [[Alexis Clairaut (nonfiction)|Alexis Clairaut]] dies. His work helped to establish the validity of the principles and results that Sir Isaac Newton had outlined in the ''Principia'' of 1687. |
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| ||1801 – William Heberden, English physician and scholar (b. 1710)
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| ||1818 – Ezra Otis Kendall, American professor, astronomer and mathematician (d. 1899)
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| ||Heinrich Wilhelm Brandes (d. 1834) was a German physicist, meteorologist, and astronomer.
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| ||1836 – Wilhelm Steinitz, Austrian-American chess player (d. 1900)
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| File:Johann Philipp Reis.jpg|link=|1854: Scientist and inventor [[Johann Philipp Reis (nonfiction)|Johann Philipp Reis]] uses [[Gnomon algorithm functions]] to prevent outbreak of [[Kingpin inclination]].
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| ||1860 – Charlotte Barnum, American mathematician and social activist (d. 1934)
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| ||1865 – The International Telegraph Union (later the International Telecommunication Union) is established in Paris.
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| ||Ebenezer Cunningham (b. 7 May) was a British mathematician who is remembered for his research and exposition at the dawn of special relativity.
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| ||1893 – Frederick McKinley Jones, African-American inventor and entrepreneur (d. 1961)
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| ||1897 – Odd Hassel, Norwegian chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1981)
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| File:Antikythera mechanism (fragment A front).jpg|link=Antikythera mechanism (nonfiction)|1902: Greek archaeologist Valerios Stais discovers the [[Antikythera mechanism (nonfiction)|Antikythera mechanism]], an ancient mechanical analog computer. | | File:Antikythera mechanism (fragment A front).jpg|link=Antikythera mechanism (nonfiction)|1902: Greek archaeologist Valerios Stais discovers the [[Antikythera mechanism (nonfiction)|Antikythera mechanism]], an ancient mechanical analog computer. |
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| ||1909 – Julius Sumner Miller, American physicist and academic (d. 1987)
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| ||1912 – Mary Beatrice Davidson Kenner, American inventor (d. 2006)
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| ||1916 – Boris Borisovich Golitsyn, Russian physicist and seismologist (b. 1862)
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| ||1919 – Gustav Naan, Russian-Estonian physicist and philosopher (d. 1994)
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| ||1926 – Franz Sondheimer, German-English chemist and academic (d. 1981)
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| ||1964 – Nandor Fodor, Hungarian-American psychologist and parapsychologist (b. 1895)
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| ||1969 – Venera program: Soviet Venera 6 begins its descent into the atmosphere of Venus, sending back atmospheric data before being crushed by pressure.
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| ||1974 – Police in Los Angeles raid the Symbionese Liberation Army's headquarters, killing six members, including Camilla Hall. | | File:Jacques-Louis Lions.jpg|link=Jacques-Louis Lions (nonfiction)|2001: Mathematician [[Jacques-Louis Lions (nonfiction)|Jacques-Louis Lions]] dies. He made contributions to the theory of partial differential equations and to stochastic control. |
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| ||1983 – The U.S. Department of Energy declassifies documents showing world's largest mercury pollution event in Oak Ridge, Tennessee (ultimately found to be 4.2 million pounds), in response to the Appalachian Observer's Freedom of Information Act request.
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| ||1984 – Prince Charles calls a proposed addition to the National Gallery, London, a "monstrous carbuncle on the face of a much-loved and elegant friend", sparking controversies on the proper role of the Royal Family and the course of modern architecture.
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| ||1987 – An Iraqi Dassault Mirage F1 fighter jet fires two missiles into the U.S. Navy warship USS Stark, killing 37 and injuring 21 of her crew.
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| ||1990 – The General Assembly of the World Health Organization (WHO) eliminates homosexuality from the list of psychiatric diseases.
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| ||1995 – Shawn Nelson steals an M60 tank from the California Army National Guard Armory in San Diego and proceeds to go on a rampage.
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| ||Clifford Ambrose Truesdell III (d. 2000) was an American mathematician, natural philosopher, and historian of science.
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| ||2001 – Jacques-Louis Lions, French mathematician (b. 1928)
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| ||2014 – Gerald Edelman, American biologist and immunologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1929)
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| File:Anarchimedes.jpg|link=Anarchimedes|2016: Math criminal [[Anarchimedes]] plans to steal, restore, and [[Weaponization (nonfiction)|weaponize]] the [[Antikythera mechanism]], warn crime analysts.
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| |File:Egg Tooth Neighborhood Association logo.jpg|link=Egg Tooth (neighborhood)|2012: New survey names [[Egg Tooth (neighborhood)|Egg Tooth neighborhood]] as "most popular neighborhood in [[New Minneapolis, Canada|New Minneapolis]]."
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