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File:Jan Kanty.jpg|link=John Cantius (nonfiction)|1473: Priest, philosopher, physicist, and theologian [[John Cantius (nonfiction)|John Cantius]] dies. He helped develop Jean Buridan's theory of impetus, anticipating the work of Galileo and Newton. | File:Jan Kanty.jpg|link=John Cantius (nonfiction)|1473: Priest, philosopher, physicist, and theologian [[John Cantius (nonfiction)|John Cantius]] dies. He helped develop Jean Buridan's theory of impetus, anticipating the work of Galileo and Newton. | ||
||1508: Humanist scholar Pietro Carnesecchi born. In 1567 he will be beheaded and then burned by order of Pope Pius V. Pic. | |||
||1729: Anthony Collins dies ... philosopher, author, and deist. His central passion is the autonomy of reason particularly with respect to religion; Collins was strongly motivated by an aversion to religious persecution, and issues around religious freedom run through all of his writing. Pic. | |||
||1740: Anders Johan Lexell born ... astronomer, mathematician, and physicist. Lexell contributed to polygonometry and celestial mechanics, finding applications for spherical trigonometry in his research of comet and planet motion. Pic. | |||
||1749: Karl Gottfried Hagen born ... chemist. Pic. | ||1749: Karl Gottfried Hagen born ... chemist. Pic. | ||
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File:Jean-Louis_Pons.jpg|link=Jean-Louis Pons (nonfiction)|1761: Astronomer [[Jean-Louis Pons (nonfiction)|Jean-Louis Pons]] born. He will become the greatest visual comet discoverer of all time: between 1801 and 1827, Pons will discover thirty-seven comets, more than any other person in history. | File:Jean-Louis_Pons.jpg|link=Jean-Louis Pons (nonfiction)|1761: Astronomer [[Jean-Louis Pons (nonfiction)|Jean-Louis Pons]] born. He will become the greatest visual comet discoverer of all time: between 1801 and 1827, Pons will discover thirty-seven comets, more than any other person in history. | ||
||1802: André-Michel Guerry born ... lawyer and amateur statistician. Together with Adolphe Quetelet he may be regarded as the founder of moral statistics which led to the development of criminology, sociology and ultimately, modern social science. | ||1802: André-Michel Guerry born ... lawyer and amateur statistician. Together with Adolphe Quetelet he may be regarded as the founder of moral statistics which led to the development of criminology, sociology and ultimately, modern social science. Pic: map. | ||
File:James Prescott Joule.jpg|link=James Prescott Joule (nonfiction)|1818: Physicist and brewer [[James Prescott Joule (nonfiction)|James Prescott Joule]] born. He will study the nature of heat, and discover its relationship to mechanical work. | File:James Prescott Joule.jpg|link=James Prescott Joule (nonfiction)|1818: Physicist and brewer [[James Prescott Joule (nonfiction)|James Prescott Joule]] born. He will study the nature of heat, and discover its relationship to mechanical work. | ||
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File:Charles Hermite circa 1901.jpg|link=Charles Hermite (nonfiction)|1822: Mathematician [[Charles Hermite (nonfiction)|Charles Hermite]] born. He will do research on number theory, quadratic forms, invariant theory, orthogonal polynomials, elliptic functions, and algebra. | File:Charles Hermite circa 1901.jpg|link=Charles Hermite (nonfiction)|1822: Mathematician [[Charles Hermite (nonfiction)|Charles Hermite]] born. He will do research on number theory, quadratic forms, invariant theory, orthogonal polynomials, elliptic functions, and algebra. | ||
||1838: Thorvald Nicolai Thiele born ... astronomer and director of the Copenhagen Observatory. He was also an actuary and mathematician, most notable for his work in statistics, interpolation and the three-body problem. | ||1834: Augustus George Vernon Harcourt born ... chemist, pioneer of quantitative methodology in the field of chemical kinetics. Pic. | ||
||1838: Thorvald Nicolai Thiele born ... astronomer and director of the Copenhagen Observatory. He was also an actuary and mathematician, most notable for his work in statistics, interpolation and the three-body problem. Pic. | |||
||1854: Julius Johann Phillipp Ludwig Elster born ... teacher and physicist. He and Hans Friedrich Geitel invented the photocell. Pic search. | |||
||1865: John Ayrton Paris dies ... physician. He is most widely remembered as a possible inventor of the thaumatrope, which he published with W. Phillips in April 1825. No DOB. Pic. | ||1865: John Ayrton Paris dies ... physician. He is most widely remembered as a possible inventor of the thaumatrope, which he published with W. Phillips in April 1825. No DOB. Pic. | ||
||1868: Emanuel Lasker born ... chess player, mathematician, and philosopher. | ||1868: Emanuel Lasker born ... chess player, mathematician, and philosopher. Pic. | ||
||1868: Adolphe d'Archiac dies ... paleontologist and geologist. | ||1868: Adolphe d'Archiac dies ... paleontologist and geologist. | ||
||1872: William John Macquorn Rankine dies ... physicist and engineer. | ||1872: William John Macquorn Rankine dies ... physicist and engineer. Pic. | ||
||1877: Robert Parker Parrott dies ... American soldier and inventor of military ordnance. Pic search. | |||
File:Thomas Edison.jpg|link=Thomas Edison (nonfiction)|1877: [[Thomas Edison (nonfiction)|Thomas Edison | File:Thomas Edison.jpg|link=Thomas Edison (nonfiction)|1877: [[Thomas Edison (nonfiction)|Thomas Edison]] files for a patent on the phonograph. The idea came to him while working on a telegraph transmitter, when he noticed that when the tape of the machine was played at high speed, it gave off a noise resembling spoken words. After experimenting with a needle attached to the diaphragm of a telephone receiver to prick paper tape to record a message, his idea evolved to using a stylus on a tinfoil cylinder. | ||
File:Johann Benedict Listing.jpg|link=Johann Benedict Listing (nonfiction)|1882: Mathematician [[Johann Benedict Listing (nonfiction)|Johann Benedict Listing]] dies. He introduced the term "topology" in a famous article published in 1847, having already used the term in correspondence some years earlier. | File:Johann Benedict Listing.jpg|link=Johann Benedict Listing (nonfiction)|1882: Mathematician [[Johann Benedict Listing (nonfiction)|Johann Benedict Listing]] dies. He introduced the term "topology" in a famous article published in 1847, having already used the term in correspondence some years earlier. | ||
||1884: Johann Philipp Gustav von Jolly dies ... physicist and mathematician. Jolly was first and foremost an experimental physicist. He measured the acceleration due to gravity with precision weights and also worked on osmosis. Pic. | ||1884: Johann Philipp Gustav von Jolly dies ... physicist and mathematician. Jolly was first and foremost an experimental physicist. He measured the acceleration due to gravity with precision weights and also worked on osmosis. Pic. | ||
||1901: Clarence King dies ... geologist, mountaineer, and critic ... Diamond Hoax. Pic. | |||
File:Howard Hughes 1940s.jpg|link=Howard Hughes (nonfiction)|1905: Businessman, investor, aviator, film director, and philanthropist [[Howard Hughes (nonfiction)|Howard Hughes]] born. He will be known during his lifetime as one of the most financially successful individuals in the world. | File:Howard Hughes 1940s.jpg|link=Howard Hughes (nonfiction)|1905: Businessman, investor, aviator, film director, and philanthropist [[Howard Hughes (nonfiction)|Howard Hughes]] born. He will be known during his lifetime as one of the most financially successful individuals in the world. | ||
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||1914: World War I: The "Christmas truce" begins. | ||1914: World War I: The "Christmas truce" begins. | ||
||1916: Charles Frederick Mosteller born ... one of the most eminent statisticians of the 20th century. Pic | ||1916: Charles Frederick Mosteller born ... one of the most eminent statisticians of the 20th century. Pic search. | ||
File:Ivan Logginovitch Goremykin.jpg|link=Ivan Goremykin (nonfiction)|1917: Politician [[Ivan Goremykin (nonfiction)|Ivan Goremykin]] dies. He is remembered for his [[Extreme Moustaches]]. | File:Ivan Logginovitch Goremykin.jpg|link=Ivan Goremykin (nonfiction)|1917: Politician [[Ivan Goremykin (nonfiction)|Ivan Goremykin]] dies. He is remembered for his [[Extreme Moustaches]]. | ||
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||1923: Gunnar Nordström dies ... theoretical physicist best remembered for his theory of gravitation, which was an early competitor of general relativity. Nordström is often designated by modern writers as The Einstein of Finland due to his novel work in similar fields with similar methods to Einstein. Pic. | ||1923: Gunnar Nordström dies ... theoretical physicist best remembered for his theory of gravitation, which was an early competitor of general relativity. Nordström is often designated by modern writers as The Einstein of Finland due to his novel work in similar fields with similar methods to Einstein. Pic. | ||
||1938: Mathematician and academic William Veech born ... research concerned dynamical systems; he is particularly known for his work on interval exchange transformations, and is the namesake of the Veech surface. Pic | ||1938: Mathematician and academic William Veech born ... research concerned dynamical systems; he is particularly known for his work on interval exchange transformations, and is the namesake of the Veech surface. Pic search. | ||
||1941: Fernand Holweck dies ... physicist who made important contributions in the fields of vacuum technology, electromagnetic radiation and gravitation. He is also remembered for his personal sacrifice in the cause of the French Resistance and his aid to Allied airmen in World War II. Pic. | ||1941: Fernand Holweck dies ... physicist who made important contributions in the fields of vacuum technology, electromagnetic radiation and gravitation. He is also remembered for his personal sacrifice in the cause of the French Resistance and his aid to Allied airmen in World War II. Pic. | ||
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File:Wilhelm Ackermann.jpg|link=Wilhelm Ackermann (nonfiction)|1962: Mathematician [[Wilhelm Ackermann (nonfiction)|Wilhelm Ackermann]] dies. He discovered the Ackermann function, an important example in the theory of computation. | File:Wilhelm Ackermann.jpg|link=Wilhelm Ackermann (nonfiction)|1962: Mathematician [[Wilhelm Ackermann (nonfiction)|Wilhelm Ackermann]] dies. He discovered the Ackermann function, an important example in the theory of computation. | ||
||1968: Apollo program: The crew of Apollo 8 enters into orbit around the Moon, becoming the first humans to do so. They performed ten lunar orbits and broadcast live TV pictures. | ||1968: Apollo program: The crew of Apollo 8 enters into orbit around the Moon, becoming the first humans to do so. They performed ten lunar orbits and broadcast live TV pictures. | ||
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||1980: Witnesses report the first of several sightings of unexplained lights near RAF Woodbridge, in Rendlesham Forest, Suffolk, England, United Kingdom, an incident called "Britain's Roswell". | ||1980: Witnesses report the first of several sightings of unexplained lights near RAF Woodbridge, in Rendlesham Forest, Suffolk, England, United Kingdom, an incident called "Britain's Roswell". | ||
||1993: Pierre Victor Auger dies ... physicist, born in Paris. He worked in the fields of atomic physics, nuclear physics, and cosmic ray physics. | ||1986: Eric Malcolm Jones dies ... British intelligence officer who was director of the British signals intelligence agency, GCHQ from 1952 to 1960. Pic search. | ||
||1993: Pierre Victor Auger dies ... physicist, born in Paris. He worked in the fields of atomic physics, nuclear physics, and cosmic ray physics. Pic. | |||
||1994: Mathematician and adademic Alfred Leon Foster dies. He studied the role of duality in Boolean theory and subsequently developed a theory of n-ality for certain rings which played for n-valued logics the role of Boolean rings vis-a-vis Boolean algebras. Pic. | ||1994: Mathematician and adademic Alfred Leon Foster dies. He studied the role of duality in Boolean theory and subsequently developed a theory of n-ality for certain rings which played for n-valued logics the role of Boolean rings vis-a-vis Boolean algebras. Pic. | ||
||1998: Raemer Edgar Schreiber dies ... physicist from McMinnville, Oregon who served Los Alamos National Laboratory during World War II, participating in the development of the atomic bomb. He saw the first one detonated in the Trinity nuclear test in July 1945, and prepared the Fat Man bomb that was used in the bombing of Nagasaki. After the war, he served at Los Alamos as a group leader, and was involved in the design of the hydrogen bomb. In 1955, he became the head of its Nuclear Rocket Propulsion (N) Division, which developed the first nuclear-powered rockets. Pic. | ||1998: Raemer Edgar Schreiber dies ... physicist from McMinnville, Oregon who served Los Alamos National Laboratory during World War II, participating in the development of the atomic bomb. He saw the first one detonated in the Trinity nuclear test in July 1945, and prepared the Fat Man bomb that was used in the bombing of Nagasaki. After the war, he served at Los Alamos as a group leader, and was involved in the design of the hydrogen bomb. In 1955, he became the head of its Nuclear Rocket Propulsion (N) Division, which developed the first nuclear-powered rockets. Pic. | ||
||2000: Horace Barker dies ...biochemist and microbiologist who studied the operation of biological and chemical processes in plants, humans and other animals, including using radioactive tracers to determine the role enzymes play in synthesizing sucrose, and identifying an active form of Vitamin B12. Pic search. | |||
||2000: Laurence Chisholm Young dies ... mathematician known for his contributions to measure theory, the calculus of variations, optimal control theory, and potential theory. Pic. | ||2000: Laurence Chisholm Young dies ... mathematician known for his contributions to measure theory, the calculus of variations, optimal control theory, and potential theory. Pic. | ||
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1473: Priest, philosopher, physicist, and theologian John Cantius dies. He helped develop Jean Buridan's theory of impetus, anticipating the work of Galileo and Newton.
1761: Astronomer Jean-Louis Pons born. He will become the greatest visual comet discoverer of all time: between 1801 and 1827, Pons will discover thirty-seven comets, more than any other person in history.
1818: Physicist and brewer James Prescott Joule born. He will study the nature of heat, and discover its relationship to mechanical work.
1822: Mathematician Charles Hermite born. He will do research on number theory, quadratic forms, invariant theory, orthogonal polynomials, elliptic functions, and algebra.
1877: Thomas Edison files for a patent on the phonograph. The idea came to him while working on a telegraph transmitter, when he noticed that when the tape of the machine was played at high speed, it gave off a noise resembling spoken words. After experimenting with a needle attached to the diaphragm of a telephone receiver to prick paper tape to record a message, his idea evolved to using a stylus on a tinfoil cylinder.
1882: Mathematician Johann Benedict Listing dies. He introduced the term "topology" in a famous article published in 1847, having already used the term in correspondence some years earlier.
1905: Businessman, investor, aviator, film director, and philanthropist Howard Hughes born. He will be known during his lifetime as one of the most financially successful individuals in the world.
1906: Inventor Reginald Fessenden transmits the first radio broadcast; consisting of a poetry reading, a violin solo, and a speech.
1917: Politician Ivan Goremykin dies. He is remembered for his Extreme Moustaches.
1962: Mathematician Wilhelm Ackermann dies. He discovered the Ackermann function, an important example in the theory of computation.