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||1584 – John Day, English printer (b. 1522)
||1584: John Day dies ... printer. No DOB. Pic.


File:Joseph-Louis Lagrange.jpg|link=Joseph-Louis Lagrange (nonfiction)|1754: [[Joseph-Louis Lagrange (nonfiction)|Joseph-Louis Lagrange]] publishes his first work, in the form of a letter in Italian. A month later he realized that he had rediscovered Leibniz's formula for the nth derivative of a product.  
File:Joseph-Louis Lagrange.jpg|link=Joseph-Louis Lagrange (nonfiction)|1754: [[Joseph-Louis Lagrange (nonfiction)|Joseph-Louis Lagrange]] publishes his first work, in the form of a letter in Italian. A month later he realized that he had rediscovered Leibniz's formula for the nth derivative of a product.  


||1773 – George Edwards, English biologist and ornithologist (b. 1693)
||1773: George Edwards dies ... biologist and ornithologist. Pic.


||1796 – Franz Berwald, Swedish surgeon and composer (d. 1868)
||1796: Franz Berwald born ... surgeon and composer.


||1775 – Étienne-Louis Malus, French physicist and mathematician (d. 1812)
||1775: Étienne-Louis Malus born ... physicist and mathematician.


File:Typographer patent 1829.jpg|link=Typographer (typewriter) (nonfiction)|1829: William Austin Burt patents the [[Typographer (typewriter) (nonfiction)|typographer]], a precursor to the typewriter.
File:Typographer patent 1829.jpg|link=Typographer (typewriter) (nonfiction)|1829: William Austin Burt patents the [[Typographer (typewriter) (nonfiction)|typographer]], a precursor to the typewriter.


||Włodzimierz Stożek (b. 23 July 1883) was a Polish mathematician. He published numerous papers on the theory of integral equations, potential theory, as well as on many other branches of mathematics. Pic.
||1875: Isaac Singer dies ... inventor, actor, and businessman. He made important improvements in the design of the sewing machine and was the founder of what became one of the first American multi-national businesses, the Singer Sewing Machine Company. Pic.


File:Mark Twain Interviews Wallace War-Heels.jpg|link=Mark Twain Interviews Wallace War-Heels|1885: The well-known illustration ''[[Mark Twain Interviews Wallace War-Heels|Interview with Wallace War-Heels]]'' is stolen by [[math criminals]], who demand computational ransom.
||1878: Carl von Rokitansky dies ... physician, pathologist, and philosopher. Pic.


||1886 – Walter H. Schottky, Swiss-German physicist and engineer (d. 1976)
||1883: Włodzimierz Stożek born ... mathematician.  He published numerous papers on the theory of integral equations, potential theory, as well as on many other branches of mathematics. Pic.


||1906 – Vladimir Prelog, Croatian-Swiss chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1998)
||1884: "Dilly" Knox born ... classics scholar and papyrologist at King's College, Cambridge and a codebreaker. As a member of the Room 40 codebreaking unit he helped decrypt the Zimmermann Telegram which brought the USA into the First World War. He joined the Government Code and Cypher School (GC&CS) at the war's end. Pic search.


||Charles Bradfield Morrey Jr. (b. 23 July 1907) was an American mathematician who made fundamental contributions to the calculus of variations and the theory of partial differential equations.
||1886: Walter H. Schottky born ... physicist and engineer. Pic.


||Jean Louis Maxime van Heijenoort (b. July 23, 1912) was a pioneer historian of mathematical logic. He was also a personal secretary to Leon Trotsky from 1932 to 1939, and from then until 1947, an American Trotskyist activist. Pic.
||1895: William Bleckwenn born ... neurologist, psychiatrist, and military physician, who was instrumental in developing the treatment known as "narcoanalysis" or "narcosynthesis", also known by the lay term "truth serum". Pic.


||1916 – William Ramsay, Scottish-English chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1852)
||1903: Theodore Christian Schneirla born ... comparative psychologist whose empirical work was based on observations on the behavior patterns of army ants. His "biphasic A-W theory" reduced all behavior to two simple responses: approach and withdrawal -- we approach what causes pleasure, and we withdraw from what causes unpleasure or pain.  


||Ingram Olkin (b. July 23, 1924) was a professor emeritus and chair of statistics and education at Stanford University and the Stanford Graduate School of Education. He is known for developing statistical analysis for evaluating policies, particularly in education, and for his contributions to meta-analysis, statistics education, multivariate analysis, and majorization theory. Pic.
||1906: Vladimir Prelog, Croatian-Swiss chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic.


File:Hans Hahn.jpg|link=Hans Hahn (nonfiction)|1934: Mathematician and crime-fighter [[Hans Hahn (nonfiction)|Hans Hahn]] publishes new analysis of set theory which soons finds application in detecting and preventing [[crimes against mathematical constants]].
||1907: Charles Bradfield Morrey Jr. born ... mathematician who made fundamental contributions to the calculus of variations and the theory of partial differential equations.
 
||1912: Jean Louis Maxime van Heijenoort born ... pioneer historian of mathematical logic. He was also a personal secretary to Leon Trotsky from 1932 to 1939, and from then until 1947, an American Trotskyist activist. Pic.
 
||1916: William Ramsay dies ... chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic.
 
||1920: Mathematician, engineer, and academic Ray William Clough born.  Clough was a pioneer of the finite element method (FEM). He coined the term "finite elements" in an article in 1960.  Pic search.


File:Vera Rubin.jpg|link=Vera Rubin (nonfiction)|1928: Astronomer and academic [[Vera Rubin (nonfiction)|Vera Rubin]] born. She will discover the discrepancy between the predicted angular motion of galaxies and the observed motion, by studying galactic rotation curves.
File:Vera Rubin.jpg|link=Vera Rubin (nonfiction)|1928: Astronomer and academic [[Vera Rubin (nonfiction)|Vera Rubin]] born. She will discover the discrepancy between the predicted angular motion of galaxies and the observed motion, by studying galactic rotation curves.


||1929 – The Fascist government in Italy bans the use of foreign words.
||1929: The Fascist government in Italy bans the use of foreign words.
 
||1930: Glenn Curtiss dies ... pilot and engineer.


||1930 – Glenn Curtiss, American pilot and engineer (b. 1878)
||1942: Valdemar Poulsen dies ... engineer who made significant contributions to early radio technology. He developed a magnetic wire recorder called the telegraphone in 1899 and the first continuous wave radio transmitter, the Poulsen arc transmitter, in 1903, which was used in some of the first broadcasting stations until the early 1920s. Pic.


||Valdemar Poulsen (d. 23 July 1942) was a Danish engineer who made significant contributions to early radio technology. He developed a magnetic wire recorder called the telegraphone in 1899 and the first continuous wave radio transmitter, the Poulsen arc transmitter, in 1903, which was used in some of the first broadcasting stations until the early 1920s.
File:Telstar.jpg|link=Telstar (nonfiction)|1962: [[Telstar (nonfiction)|Telstar]] relays the first publicly transmitted, live trans-Atlantic television program, featuring Walter Cronkite.


File:Alice Beta.jpg|link=Alice Beta|1962: Mathematician and crime-fighter [[Alice Beta]] uses [[Telstar (nonfiction)|Telstar]] to communicate with [[AESOP]].  
||1964: Werner Wolfgang Rogosinski dies ... mathematician. His interest was analytical problems, especially in series. His dissertation, "New Application of Pfeiffer's method for Dirichlet's divisor problem", caused a stir in 1922. Pic.


File:Telstar.jpg|link=Telstar (nonfiction)|1962: [[Telstar (nonfiction)|Telstar]] relays the first publicly transmitted, live trans-Atlantic television program, featuring Walter Cronkite.
||1964: Samarendra Nath Roy dies ... mathematician and an applied statistician. Pic.


||Werner Wolfgang Rogosinski FRS (d. 23 July 1964) was a German (later British) mathematician. His interest was analytical problems, especially in series. His dissertation, "New Application of Pfeiffer's method for Dirichlet's divisor problem", caused a stir in 1922. Pic.
||1968: Henry Hallett Dale dies ... pharmacologist and physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic.


||Samarendra Nath Roy (d. 23 July 1964) was an Indian-born American mathematician and an applied statistician. Pic.
||1972: The United States launches Landsat 1, the first Earth-resources satellite.


||1968 – Henry Hallett Dale, English pharmacologist and physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1875)
||1977: Jesse Wakefield Beams dies ... physicist. Manhattan project. Pic: gravestone.


||1972 – The United States launches Landsat 1, the first Earth-resources satellite.
||1981: Lazar Aronovich Lyusternik dies ... mathematician. He is famous for his work in topology and differential geometry, to which he applied the variational principle.


||Jesse Wakefield Beams (December 25, 1898 in Belle Plaine, Kansas – July 23, 1977) was an American physicist. Manhattan project, gravestone.
||1983: 1983 - Gimli Glider - Air Canada 767 runs out of fuel in midair and makes emergency glide landing at Gimli airstrip; due to metric confusion and fuel metering problems.  Pic: interesting photo, plane nose-down on runway: http://canadachannel.ca/todayincanadianhistory/index.php/July_23


||Lazar Aronovich Lyusternik (d. 23 July 1981) was a Soviet mathematician. He is famous for his work in topology and differential geometry, to which he applied the variational principle.
||1989: Alexander Weygers dies ... polymath Dutch-American artist who is best known as a sculptor, painter, print maker, blacksmith, carpenter, philosopher, mechanical engineer, aerospace engineer and author. Pic.


||1990 – Kenjiro Takayanagi, Japanese engineer (b. 1899) Father of Japanese television. Kenjiro Takayanagi (d. July 23, 1990 in Yokosuka) was a Japanese engineer and a pioneer in the development of television. Although he failed to gain much recognition in the West, he built the world's first all-electronic television receiver, and is referred to as "the father of Japanese television".
||1990: Kenjiro Takayanagi, Japanese engineer (b. 1899) Father of Japanese television. Kenjiro Takayanagi (d. July 23, 1990 in Yokosuka) was a Japanese engineer and a pioneer in the development of television. Although he failed to gain much recognition in the West, he built the world's first all-electronic television receiver, and is referred to as "the father of Japanese television".


||1995 – Comet Hale–Bopp is discovered; it becomes visible to the naked eye on Earth nearly a year later.
||1995: Comet Hale–Bopp is discovered; it becomes visible to the naked eye on Earth nearly a year later.


||2012 – Sally Ride, American physicist and astronaut (b. 1951)
||2006: Charles Frederick Mosteller dies ... one of the most eminent statisticians of the 20th century.  Pic: https://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=x-raw-image%3A%2F%2F%2F9fff90814bdb2b37665bf85fb0409670db7ed01cb0366833d3d6e03f59f90c07&imgrefurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nasonline.org%2Fpublications%2Fbiographical-memoirs%2Fmemoir-pdfs%2Fmosteller-frederick.pdf&docid=zX_zisTRZzGcFM&tbnid=NyvbS4GQ_5-TbM%3A&vet=10ahUKEwiQlY6whobdAhUM2IMKHQAgBWwQMwg7KAEwAQ..i&w=557&h=646&bih=588&biw=1175&q=Frederick%20Mosteller&ved=0ahUKEwiQlY6whobdAhUM2IMKHQAgBWwQMwg7KAEwAQ&iact=mrc&uact=8


||2015 – NASA announces discovery of Kepler-452b by Kepler.
||2012: Sally Ride, American physicist and astronaut.


||Florence Steinberg (March 17, 1939[1] – July 23, 2017)[2][3] was an American publisher of one of the first independent comic books, the underground/alternative comics hybrid Big Apple Comix, in 1975. Additionally, as the secretary for Marvel Comics editor Stan Lee and the fledgling company's receptionist and fan liaison during the 1960s Silver Age of Comic Books, she was a key participant of and witness to Marvel's expansion from a two-person staff to a pop culture conglomerate.
||2015: NASA announces discovery of Kepler-452b by Kepler.


File:AESOP.jpg|link=AESOP|2017: [[AESOP]] re-broadcasts Walter Cronkite's 1962 trans-Atlantic television program.
||2017: Florence Steinberg dies ... publisher of one of the first independent comic books, the underground/alternative comics hybrid Big Apple Comix, in 1975. Additionally, as the secretary for Marvel Comics editor Stan Lee and the fledgling company's receptionist and fan liaison during the 1960s Silver Age of Comic Books, she was a key participant of and witness to Marvel's expansion from a two-person staff to a pop culture conglomerate. Pic (charming).


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Latest revision as of 10:19, 7 February 2022

  • 1754: Joseph-Louis Lagrange publishes his first work, in the form of a letter in Italian. A month later he realized that he had rediscovered Leibniz's formula for the nth derivative of a product.

    1754: Joseph-Louis Lagrange publishes his first work, in the form of a letter in Italian. A month later he realized that he had rediscovered Leibniz's formula for the nth derivative of a product.

  • 1829: William Austin Burt patents the typographer, a precursor to the typewriter.

    1829: William Austin Burt patents the typographer, a precursor to the typewriter.

  • 1928: Astronomer and academic Vera Rubin born. She will discover the discrepancy between the predicted angular motion of galaxies and the observed motion, by studying galactic rotation curves.

    1928: Astronomer and academic Vera Rubin born. She will discover the discrepancy between the predicted angular motion of galaxies and the observed motion, by studying galactic rotation curves.

  • 1962: Telstar relays the first publicly transmitted, live trans-Atlantic television program, featuring Walter Cronkite.

    1962: Telstar relays the first publicly transmitted, live trans-Atlantic television program, featuring Walter Cronkite.

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