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File:Giovanni_Battista_Riccioli.jpg|link=Giovanni Battista Riccioli (nonfiction)|1671: Priest and astromomer [[Giovanni Battista Riccioli (nonfiction)|Giovanni Battista Riccioli]] dies. He experimented with pendulums and falling bodies, discussed arguments concerning the motion of the Earth, and introduced the current scheme of lunar nomenclature. | File:Giovanni_Battista_Riccioli.jpg|link=Giovanni Battista Riccioli (nonfiction)|1671: Priest and astromomer [[Giovanni Battista Riccioli (nonfiction)|Giovanni Battista Riccioli]] dies. He experimented with pendulums and falling bodies, discussed arguments concerning the motion of the Earth, and introduced the current scheme of lunar nomenclature. | ||
||1798: Thomas Sandby dies ... cartographer, painter, and architect. No DOB. Pic. | |||
|| | ||1814: Gabriel Auguste Daubrée born ... geologist, engineer, and academic. He will be distinguished for his long-continued and often dangerous experiments on the artificial production of minerals and rocks. Pic. | ||
|| | ||1838: François-Nicolas-Benoît Haxo dies ... French Army general and military engineer during the French Revolution and First Empire. Pic. | ||
||1864: Walther Nernst born ... chemist and physicist, Nobel Prize laureate. | ||1864: Walther Nernst born ... chemist and physicist, Nobel Prize laureate. His formulation of the Nernst heat theorem helped pave the way for the third law of thermodynamics, for which he won the 1920 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. Pic. | ||
||1866: Alexander von Nordmann dies ... biologist and paleontologist. | ||1866: Alexander von Nordmann dies ... biologist and paleontologist. | ||
||1868: Carlo Matteucci dies ... physicist and neurophysiologist. | ||1868: Carlo Matteucci dies ... physicist and neurophysiologist. | ||
||1868: Alexander Mitchell dies ... blind engineer, invented the Screw-pile lighthouse. Pic search. | |||
||1874: Rose O'Neill born ... cartoonist, illustrator, artist, and writer. | ||1874: Rose O'Neill born ... cartoonist, illustrator, artist, and writer. | ||
||1888: William Threlfall born ... British-born German mathematician who worked on algebraic topology. He was a coauthor of the standard textbook ''Lehrbuch der Topologie''. Signed Nazi doc. Pic. | |||
||1894: Hermann Oberth born ... physicist and engineer. | ||1894: Hermann Oberth born ... physicist and engineer. | ||
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||1910: The United States Congress passes the Mann Act, which prohibits interstate transport of females for “immoral purposes”; the ambiguous language would be used to selectively prosecute people for years to come. | ||1910: The United States Congress passes the Mann Act, which prohibits interstate transport of females for “immoral purposes”; the ambiguous language would be used to selectively prosecute people for years to come. | ||
||1911: William Howard Stein born ... chemist and biologist, Nobel Prize laureate. | ||1911: William Howard Stein born ... chemist and biologist, Nobel Prize laureate ... with Christian Boehmer Anfinsen and Stanford Moore, for their work on ribonuclease and for their contribution to the understanding of the connection between chemical structure and catalytic activity of the ribonuclease molecule. Pic. | ||
||1928: Alexei Alexeyevich Abrikosov born ... theoretical physicist whose main contributions are in the field of condensed matter physics. He was the co-recipient of the 2003 Nobel Prize in Physics, with Vitaly Ginzburg and Anthony James Leggett, for theories about how matter can behave at extremely low temperatures. Pic. | ||1928: Alexei Alexeyevich Abrikosov born ... theoretical physicist whose main contributions are in the field of condensed matter physics. He was the co-recipient of the 2003 Nobel Prize in Physics, with Vitaly Ginzburg and Anthony James Leggett, for theories about how matter can behave at extremely low temperatures. Pic. | ||
|| | ||1928: Alexander Toth born ... cartoonist active from the 1940s through the 1980s. Toth's work began in the American comic book industry, but he is also known for his animation designs for Hanna-Barbera throughout the 1960s and 1970s. His work included Super Friends, Fantastic Four, Space Ghost, Sealab 2020, The Herculoids and Birdman. Toth's work has been resurrected in the late-night, adult-themed spin-offs on Cartoon Network: Space Ghost Coast to Coast, Sealab 2021 and Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law. Pic. | ||
||1935: Charles Sheffield born ... mathematician, physicist, and author. | ||1931: Anatoli Georgievich Vitushkin born ... mathematician noted for his work on mathematical analysis and analytic capacity. Pic search. | ||
||1933: Roy Dommett born ... scientist and engineer ... rockets. Pic search. | |||
||1935: Charles Sheffield born ... mathematician, physicist, and author. Pic search. | |||
||1941: Alfred Pringsheim dies ... mathematician and patron of the arts. He will study real and complex functions, following the power-series-approach of the Weierstrass school. Pringsheim published numerous works on the subject of complex analysis, with a focus on the summability theory of infinite series and the boundary behavior of analytic functions. Pic. | ||1941: Alfred Pringsheim dies ... mathematician and patron of the arts. He will study real and complex functions, following the power-series-approach of the Weierstrass school. Pringsheim published numerous works on the subject of complex analysis, with a focus on the summability theory of infinite series and the boundary behavior of analytic functions. Pic. | ||
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||1959: Bobbie Vaile born ... astrophysicist and astronomer. | ||1959: Bobbie Vaile born ... astrophysicist and astronomer. | ||
||1960: Walter Baade dies, German astronomer and author. He will discover that there are two types of Cepheid variable stars. Using this discovery he recalculated the size of the known universe, doubling the previous calculation made by Hubble in 1929. | ||1960: Walter Baade dies, German astronomer and author. He will discover that there are two types of Cepheid variable stars. Using this discovery he recalculated the size of the known universe, doubling the previous calculation made by Hubble in 1929. Pic. | ||
||1960: Two cryptographers working for the United States National Security Agency left for vacation to Mexico, and from there defected to the Soviet Union. | ||1960: Two cryptographers working for the United States National Security Agency left for vacation to Mexico, and from there defected to the Soviet Union. | ||
||1961: Ricky Gervais born ... stand-up comedian, actor, writer, producer, director, and singer. | |||
||1971: John Boyd Orr dies ... physician, biologist, and politician, Nobel Prize laureate. | ||1971: John Boyd Orr dies ... physician, biologist, and politician, Nobel Prize laureate. | ||
||1974: Cornelius Lanczos dies ... mathematician and physicist. | ||1974: Cornelius Lanczos dies ... mathematician and physicist. Pic. | ||
||1981: Microsoft is restructured to become an incorporated business in its home state of Washington. | ||1981: Microsoft is restructured to become an incorporated business in its home state of Washington. | ||
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||1984: American singer Prince releases his most successful studio album Purple Rain. | ||1984: American singer Prince releases his most successful studio album Purple Rain. | ||
||1995: Ernest Walton dies ... physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. | ||1995: Ernest Walton dies ... physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic. | ||
File:Mir.jpg|link=Mir (nonfiction)|1997: An unmanned Progress spacecraft collides with the [[Mir (nonfiction)|Russian space station Mir]]. | File:Mir.jpg|link=Mir (nonfiction)|1997: An unmanned Progress spacecraft collides with the [[Mir (nonfiction)|Russian space station Mir]]. | ||
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File:Annie Easley.jpg|link=Annie Easley (nonfiction)|2011: Computer scientist, mathematician, and engineer [[Annie Easley (nonfiction)|Annie Easley]] dies. She was a leading member of the team which develops software for the Centaur rocket stage, and one of the first African-Americans to work as a computer scientist at NASA. | File:Annie Easley.jpg|link=Annie Easley (nonfiction)|2011: Computer scientist, mathematician, and engineer [[Annie Easley (nonfiction)|Annie Easley]] dies. She was a leading member of the team which develops software for the Centaur rocket stage, and one of the first African-Americans to work as a computer scientist at NASA. | ||
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1593: Physician and archaeologist Michele Mercati dies. He was one of the first scholars to recognize prehistoric stone tools as human-made rather than natural or mythologically created thunderstones.
1671: Priest and astromomer Giovanni Battista Riccioli dies. He experimented with pendulums and falling bodies, discussed arguments concerning the motion of the Earth, and introduced the current scheme of lunar nomenclature.
1907: Nuclear physicist J. Hans D. Jensen born. He will share half of the 1963 Nobel Prize in Physics with Maria Goeppert-Mayer for their proposal of the nuclear shell model.
1997: An unmanned Progress spacecraft collides with the Russian space station Mir.
2011: Computer scientist, mathematician, and engineer Annie Easley dies. She was a leading member of the team which develops software for the Centaur rocket stage, and one of the first African-Americans to work as a computer scientist at NASA.