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File:Leonardo_da_Vinci_in_flight.jpg|link=Leonardo da Vinci|1488: Polymath [[Leonardo da Vinci]] publishes groundbreaking treatise on applications of the [[Gnomon algorithm]] principle to powered flight.
File:Leonardo by Meizi.jpg|link=Leonardo da Vinci (nonfiction)|1519: Polymath [[Leonardo da Vinci (nonfiction)|Leonardo da Vinci]] dies. His areas of interest included painting, sculpting, architecture, invention, science, music, mathematics, engineering, literature, anatomy, geology, astronomy, botany, writing, history, and cartography.
File:Leonardo by Meizi.jpg|link=Leonardo da Vinci (nonfiction)|1519: Polymath [[Leonardo da Vinci (nonfiction)|Leonardo da Vinci]] dies. His areas of interest included painting, sculpting, architecture, invention, science, music, mathematics, engineering, literature, anatomy, geology, astronomy, botany, writing, history, and cartography.


||1611 – The King James Version of the Bible is published for the first time in London, England, by printer Robert Barker.
File:Athanasius_Kircher.jpg|link=Athanasius Kircher (nonfiction)|1602: Scholar and polymath [[Athanasius Kircher (nonfiction)|Athanasius Kircher]] born. He will publish some 40 major works, most notably in the fields of comparative religion, geology, and medicine.  
 
||1683 – Stjepan Gradić, Croatian philosopher and mathematician (b. 1613)
 
||1743: Mathematician Christian August Hausen dies. who is known for his research on electricity.
 
File:Leonhard Euler.jpg|link=Leonhard Euler (nonfiction)|1779: Mathematician and physicist [[Leonhard Euler (nonfiction)|Leonhard Euler]] publishes treatise on mathematical terminology and notation for use in detecting and preventing [[crimes against mathematical constants]].
 
||1797 – Abraham Pineo Gesner, Canadian physician and geologist (d. 1864)
 
||1802 – Heinrich Gustav Magnus, German chemist and physicist (d. 1870)
 
||1843 – Elijah McCoy, Canadian-American engineer (d. 1929)
||Elijah J. McCoy (b. 1844) was a Canadian-American inventor and engineer who was notable for his 57 U.S. patents, most having to do with the lubrication of steam engines.


File:D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson.jpg|link=D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson (nonfiction)|1860: Biologist, mathematician, and classics scholar [[D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson (nonfiction)|D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson]] born.
File:D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson.jpg|link=D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson (nonfiction)|1860: Biologist, mathematician, and classics scholar [[D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson (nonfiction)|D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson]] born.
||1867 – Giuseppe Morello, Italian-American mobster (d. 1930)
||Robert Williams Wood (b. 1868) was an American physicist and inventor. He is often cited as being a pivotal contributor to the field of optics and a pioneer of infrared and ultraviolet photography.
||Mauro Picone (b. 2 May 1885) was an Italian mathematician. He is known for the Picone identity, and the Sturm-Picone comparison theorem. He was also an outstanding teacher of mathematical analysis: some of the best Italian mathematicians were among his pupils. Pic.
||1890 – E. E. Smith, American engineer and author (d. 1965)
||Frank Byron Rowlett (b. May 2, 1908) was an American cryptologist.
||1915 – Clara Immerwahr, German chemist (b. 1870)
||1964 – Vietnam War: An explosion sinks the American aircraft carrier USS Card while it is docked at Saigon. A North Vietnamese frogman had placed a bomb on the ship. She is raised and returned to service less than seven months later.
||1979 – Giulio Natta, Italian chemist and engineer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1903)
||Salomon Bochner (d. 2 May 1982) was an American mathematician, known for work in mathematical analysis, probability theory and differential geometry.


File:Chernobyl disaster.jpg|link=Chernobyl disaster (nonfiction)|1986: [[Chernobyl disaster (nonfiction)|Chernobyl disaster]]: The City of Chernobyl is evacuated six days after the disaster.
File:Chernobyl disaster.jpg|link=Chernobyl disaster (nonfiction)|1986: [[Chernobyl disaster (nonfiction)|Chernobyl disaster]]: The City of Chernobyl is evacuated six days after the disaster.


File:The Custodian.jpg|link=The Custodian|1986: Public servant and alleged time-traveller [[The Custodian]] says he is "sick and tired of mopping up [[Chernobyl disaster (nonfiction)|Chernobyl]], among other things."
File:W._T._Tutte.jpg|link=W. T. Tutte (nonfiction)|2002: Mathematician, codebreaker, and academic [[W. T. Tutte (nonfiction)|W. T. Tutte]] dies. During the Second World War, he made a brilliant and fundamental advance in cryptanalysis of the Lorenz cipher, a major Nazi German cipher system.


||Sir John Carew Eccles (d. 2 May 1997) was an Australian neurophysiologist and philosopher who won the 1963 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his work on the synapse. He shared the prize with Andrew Huxley and Alan Lloyd Hodgkin.
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File:W._T._Tutte.jpg|link=W. T. Tutte|2002: Mathematician, codebreaker, and academic [[W. T. Tutte (nonfiction)|W. T. Tutte]] dies. During the Second World War, he made a brilliant and fundamental advance in cryptanalysis of the Lorenz cipher, a major Nazi German cipher system.
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||2008 – Izold Pustõlnik, Ukrainian-Estonian astronomer and academic (b. 1938)
 
||2012 – Akira Tonomura, Japanese physicist, author, and academic (b. 1942). No pic.
 
|File:The Eel Escapes Hydrolab.jpg|link=The Eel Escapes Hydrolab|2017: Art critic and alleged supervillain [[The Eel]] discovers cache of previously unknown [[Leonardo da Vinci (nonfiction)|da Vinci]] manuscripts.
 
File:Green_Spiral_9.jpg|link=Green Spiral 9 (nonfiction)|2018: Signed first edition of ''[[Green Spiral 9 (nonfiction)|Green Spiral 9]]'' stolen from the Museum of Modern Art by criminal agents of the [[Forbidden Ratio]].
 
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  • 1519: Polymath Leonardo da Vinci dies. His areas of interest included painting, sculpting, architecture, invention, science, music, mathematics, engineering, literature, anatomy, geology, astronomy, botany, writing, history, and cartography.

    1519: Polymath Leonardo da Vinci dies. His areas of interest included painting, sculpting, architecture, invention, science, music, mathematics, engineering, literature, anatomy, geology, astronomy, botany, writing, history, and cartography.

  • 1602: Scholar and polymath Athanasius Kircher born. He will publish some 40 major works, most notably in the fields of comparative religion, geology, and medicine.

    1602: Scholar and polymath Athanasius Kircher born. He will publish some 40 major works, most notably in the fields of comparative religion, geology, and medicine.

  • 1860: Biologist, mathematician, and classics scholar D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson born.

    1860: Biologist, mathematician, and classics scholar D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson born.

  • 1986: Chernobyl disaster: The City of Chernobyl is evacuated six days after the disaster.

    1986: Chernobyl disaster: The City of Chernobyl is evacuated six days after the disaster.

  • 2002: Mathematician, codebreaker, and academic W. T. Tutte dies. During the Second World War, he made a brilliant and fundamental advance in cryptanalysis of the Lorenz cipher, a major Nazi German cipher system.

    2002: Mathematician, codebreaker, and academic W. T. Tutte dies. During the Second World War, he made a brilliant and fundamental advance in cryptanalysis of the Lorenz cipher, a major Nazi German cipher system.

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