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||1758: Pierre Bouguer dies ... mathematician, geophysicist, and astronomer. Pic.
||1758: Pierre Bouguer dies ... mathematician, geophysicist, and astronomer. Pic.


||1795: Émile Léger born ... mathematician ...  only published four papers on mathematics,[1] but one of them seems to be the first to recognize the worst case in the euclidean algorithm: when the inputs are proportional to consecutive Fibonacci numbers.. No pic, but interesting life: he helped defend Paris during the Hundred Days of Napoleon in March 1815, and was decorated for bravery.
||1795: Émile Léger born ... mathematician ...  only published four papers on mathematics, but one of them seems to be the first to recognize the worst case in the euclidean algorithm: when the inputs are proportional to consecutive Fibonacci numbers. No pic online, but interesting life: he helped defend Paris during the Hundred Days of Napoleon in March 1815, and was decorated for bravery.


||1824: Antonio Stoppani born ... geologist and scholar. Pic.
||1824: Antonio Stoppani born ... geologist and scholar. Pic.
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||1852: Johan Gadolin, Finnish chemist, physicist, and mineralogist dies. Pic: stamp.
||1852: Johan Gadolin, Finnish chemist, physicist, and mineralogist dies. Pic: stamp.
File:Robert Bunsen.jpg|link=Robert Bunsen (nonfiction)|1888: Chemist and crime-fighter [[Robert Bunsen (nonfiction)|Robert Bunsen]] publishes new class of [[Gnomon algorithm functions]] based on the emission spectra of heated elements which detect and prevent [[crimes against chemistry]].


||1889: Elias Loomis dies ... mathematician. Pic.
||1889: Elias Loomis dies ... mathematician. Pic.
File:Alice Beta and Niles Cartouchian Play Chess.jpg|link=Alice Beta and Niles Cartouchian Play Chess|1891: Signed first edition of ''[[Alice Beta and Niles Cartouchian Play Chess]]'' sells for ninety thousand dollars at charity benefit auction for victims of [[crimes against mathematical constants]].


File:Louis de Broglie.jpg|link=Louis de Broglie (nonfiction)|1892: Physicist and academic [[Louis de Broglie (nonfiction)|Louis de Broglie]] born.  He will postulate the wave nature of electrons and suggest that all matter has wave properties, winning the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1929, after the wave-like behavior of matter is first experimentally demonstrated in 1927.
File:Louis de Broglie.jpg|link=Louis de Broglie (nonfiction)|1892: Physicist and academic [[Louis de Broglie (nonfiction)|Louis de Broglie]] born.  He will postulate the wave nature of electrons and suggest that all matter has wave properties, winning the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1929, after the wave-like behavior of matter is first experimentally demonstrated in 1927.


||1896: Gerty Theresa Cori born ... a Jewish Czech-American biochemist who became the third woman—and first American woman—to win a Nobel Prize in science, and the first woman to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. Pic.
||1896: Gerty Cori born ... a Jewish Czech-American biochemist who became the third woman—and first American woman—to win a Nobel Prize in science, and the first woman to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. Pic.


||1901: Pyotr Novikov born ... mathematician and theorist. Pic.
||1901: Pyotr Novikov born ... mathematician and theorist. Pic.
||1905: Hermann Brück dies ... physicist and astronomer. Pic.


||1906: Eugene Schieffelin dies ... belonged to the New York Genealogical and Biographical Society and the New York Zoological Society. He was responsible for introducing the European starling (Sturnus vulgaris) to North America. No pic.
||1906: Eugene Schieffelin dies ... belonged to the New York Genealogical and Biographical Society and the New York Zoological Society. He was responsible for introducing the European starling (Sturnus vulgaris) to North America. No pic.


||1907: John Kerr ... a Scottish physicist and a pioneer in the field of electro-optics. He is best known for the discovery of what is now called the Kerr effect. Pic.
||1907: John Kerr ... a Scottish physicist and a pioneer in the field of electro-optics. He is best known for the discovery of what is now called the Kerr effect. Pic.
||1910: Constantin Fahlberg dies ... chemist who discovered the sweet taste of anhydroorthosulphaminebenzoic acid in 1877–78 when analysing the chemical compounds in coal tar at Johns Hopkins University for Professor Ira Remsen. Pic.


||1911: Albert Ladenburg dies ... chemist. He isolated hyoscine (later also known as scopolamine) in 1880.  Pic.
||1911: Albert Ladenburg dies ... chemist. He isolated hyoscine (later also known as scopolamine) in 1880.  Pic.
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||1912: Carlo Miranda born ... mathematician, working on mathematical analysis, theory of elliptic partial differential equations and complex analysis: he is known for giving the first proof of the Poincaré–Miranda theorem, for Miranda's theorem in complex analysis, and for writing an influential monograph in the theory of elliptic partial differential equations. Pic: http://matematica.unibocconi.it/autore/carlo-miranda
||1912: Carlo Miranda born ... mathematician, working on mathematical analysis, theory of elliptic partial differential equations and complex analysis: he is known for giving the first proof of the Poincaré–Miranda theorem, for Miranda's theorem in complex analysis, and for writing an influential monograph in the theory of elliptic partial differential equations. Pic: http://matematica.unibocconi.it/autore/carlo-miranda


||1912: Luigi Amerio born ... electrical engineer and mathematician. He is known for his work on almost periodic functions, on Laplace transforms in one and several dimensions, and on the theory of elliptic partial differential equations. Pic search: https://www.google.com/search?q=luigi+amerio
||1912: Luigi Amerio born ... electrical engineer and mathematician. He is known for his work on almost periodic functions, on Laplace transforms in one and several dimensions, and on the theory of elliptic partial differential equations. Pic search.


||1914: Paul Rand born ... graphic designer and art director.
||1914: Paul Rand born ... graphic designer and art director. Pic.


||1915: A story in New York World newspaper reveals that the Imperial German government had purchased excess phenol from Thomas Edison that could be used to make explosives for the war effort and diverted it to Bayer for aspirin production.
||1915: A story in New York World newspaper reveals that the Imperial German government had purchased excess phenol from Thomas Edison that could be used to make explosives for the war effort and diverted it to Bayer for aspirin production.


||1923: Hans Friedrich Geitel dies ... physicist. Pic search good: https://www.google.com/search?q=Hans+Friedrich+Geitel
||1923: Hans Friedrich Geitel dies ... physicist. Pic search.
 
||1923: Emik Avakian born ... inventor, disabled assistance. Pic.


||1931: Richard F. Heck born ... chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate ... noted for the discovery and development of the Heck reaction, which uses palladium to catalyze organic chemical reactions that couple aryl halides with alkenes. Pic.
||1931: Richard F. Heck born ... chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate ... noted for the discovery and development of the Heck reaction, which uses palladium to catalyze organic chemical reactions that couple aryl halides with alkenes. Pic.


File:Janet Beta at ENIAC.jpg|link=Janet Beta at ENIAC|1946: Signed first edition of ''Janet Beta at ENIAC'' stolen from the Library of Congress.
||1932: Robert L. Forward dies ... physicist and engineer. Pic.


||1951: Sidney Michael Dancoff dies ... an American theoretical physicist best known for the Tamm–Dancoff approximation method and for nearly developing a renormalization method for solving quantum electrodynamics (QED). Pic search: https://www.google.com/search?q=Sidney+Michael+Dancoff
||1951: Sidney Michael Dancoff dies ... an American theoretical physicist best known for the Tamm–Dancoff approximation method and for nearly developing a renormalization method for solving quantum electrodynamics (QED). Pic search.


||1953: Ludwig Prandtl dies ... physicist and engineer. Pic.
||1953: Ludwig Prandtl dies ... physicist and engineer. Pic.


||1971: President Richard Nixon completes the break from the gold standard by ending convertibility of the United States dollar into gold by foreign investors.
||1971: President Richard Nixon completes the break from the gold standard by ending convertibility of the United States dollar into gold by foreign investors.
File:Rabbi Dr. Eliezer (Leon) Ehrenpreis.jpg|link=Leon Ehrenpreis (nonfiction)|1976: Mathematician, academic, and rabbinical private detective [[Leon Ehrenpreis (nonfiction)|Eliezer 'Leon' Ehrenpreis]] uses the Malgrange–Ehrenpreis theorem to break up a [[Transdimensional corporation|transdimensional gang]] of antisemitic [[Crimes against mathematical constants|math thieves]].


File:Wow signal.jpg|link=Wow! signal (nonfiction)|1977: The Big Ear, a radio telescope operated by Ohio State University as part of the SETI project, receives a radio signal from deep space; the event is named the "[[Wow! signal (nonfiction)|Wow! signal]]" from the notation made by a volunteer on the project.
File:Wow signal.jpg|link=Wow! signal (nonfiction)|1977: The Big Ear, a radio telescope operated by Ohio State University as part of the SETI project, receives a radio signal from deep space; the event is named the "[[Wow! signal (nonfiction)|Wow! signal]]" from the notation made by a volunteer on the project.


||1978: Viggo Brun dies ... professor, mathematician and number theorist. In 1915, he introduced a new method, based on Legendre's version of the sieve of Eratosthenes, now known as the Brun sieve, which addresses additive problems such as Goldbach's conjecture and the twin prime conjecture. He used it to prove that there exist infinitely many integers n such that n and n+2 have at most nine prime factors, and that all large even integers are the sum of two numbers with at most nine prime factors. Pic.
||1978: Viggo Brun dies ... professor, mathematician and number theorist. In 1915, he introduced a new method, based on Legendre's version of the sieve of Eratosthenes, now known as the Brun sieve, which addresses additive problems such as Goldbach's conjecture and the twin prime conjecture. He used it to prove that there exist infinitely many integers n such that n and n+2 have at most nine prime factors, and that all large even integers are the sum of two numbers with at most nine prime factors. Pic.
File:Olive My Love.jpg|link=Olive My Love|1979: Led Zeppelin releases"'''[[Olive My Love]]'''".


||1984: Lake Monoun limnic eruption: West Province, Cameroon: the lake exploded in a limnic eruption, which resulted in the release of a large amount of carbon dioxide that killed 37 people. At first, the cause of the deaths was a mystery, and causes such as terrorism were suspected. Further investigation and a similar event two years later at Lake Nyos led to the currently accepted explanation.
||1984: Lake Monoun limnic eruption: West Province, Cameroon: the lake exploded in a limnic eruption, which resulted in the release of a large amount of carbon dioxide that killed 37 people. At first, the cause of the deaths was a mystery, and causes such as terrorism were suspected. Further investigation and a similar event two years later at Lake Nyos led to the currently accepted explanation.
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||2001: Kateryna Yushchenko dies ... computer scientist ad academic. Pic.
||2001: Kateryna Yushchenko dies ... computer scientist ad academic. Pic.


||2001: Peter Mazur ... an Austrian-born, Dutch physicist and one of the founders of the field of non-equilibrium thermodynamics. He is the father of Harvard University physics professor Eric Mazur.
File:Peter Mazur.jpg|link=Peter Mazur (nonfiction)|1922: Physicist [[Peter Mazur (nonfiction)|Peter Mazur]] dies. Mazur was a pioneer the field of non-equilibrium thermodynamics.
 
||2004: Biochemist and academic Sune Bergström dies.  Bergström shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Bengt I. Samuelsson and John R. Vane in 1982, for discoveries concerning prostaglandins and related substances. Pic.


||2007: John Gofman dies ... physicist, chemist, biologist, and academic. Gofman pioneered the field of clinical lipidology. With Frank T. Lindgren and other research associates, Gofman discovered and described three major classes of plasma lipoproteins, fat molecules that carry cholesterol in the blood.  Pic.
||2007: John Gofman dies ... physicist, chemist, biologist, and academic. Gofman pioneered the field of clinical lipidology. With Frank T. Lindgren and other research associates, Gofman discovered and described three major classes of plasma lipoproteins, fat molecules that carry cholesterol in the blood.  Pic.


||India: Three die as kite string slits their throats ... http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-37103668 ... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manja_(kite)
||India: Three die as kite string slits their throats ... http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-37103668 ... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manja_(kite)
File:Umberto Eco 1984.jpg|link=Umberto Eco (nonfiction)|2015: Author, philosopher, and crime-fighter [[Umberto Eco (nonfiction)|Umberto Eco]] publishes influential monograph on the origins and early development of [[high-energy literature]].
File:Pinwheel Diagram.jpg|link=Pinwheel Diagram (nonfiction)|2016: ''[[Pinwheel Diagram (nonfiction)|Pinwheel Diagram]]'' voted Picture of the Day by the citizens of [[New Minneapolis, Canada]].


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  • 1758: Mathematician, geophysicist, and astronomer Pierre Bouguer dies. He is known as "the father of naval architecture".

    1758: Mathematician, geophysicist, and astronomer Pierre Bouguer dies. He is known as "the father of naval architecture".

  • 1863: Mathematician and naval engineer Aleksey Krylov born. Fame will come to him in the 1890s, when his pioneering theory of oscillating motions of the ship becomes internationally known.

    1863: Mathematician and naval engineer Aleksey Krylov born. Fame will come to him in the 1890s, when his pioneering theory of oscillating motions of the ship becomes internationally known.

  • 1892: Physicist and academic Louis de Broglie born. He will postulate the wave nature of electrons and suggest that all matter has wave properties, winning the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1929, after the wave-like behavior of matter is first experimentally demonstrated in 1927.

    1892: Physicist and academic Louis de Broglie born. He will postulate the wave nature of electrons and suggest that all matter has wave properties, winning the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1929, after the wave-like behavior of matter is first experimentally demonstrated in 1927.

  • 1977: The Big Ear, a radio telescope operated by Ohio State University as part of the SETI project, receives a radio signal from deep space; the event is named the "Wow! signal" from the notation made by a volunteer on the project.

    1977: The Big Ear, a radio telescope operated by Ohio State University as part of the SETI project, receives a radio signal from deep space; the event is named the "Wow! signal" from the notation made by a volunteer on the project.

  • 1979: Led Zeppelin releases"Olive My Love".

    1979: Led Zeppelin releases"Olive My Love".

  • 1922: Physicist Peter Mazur dies. Mazur was a pioneer the field of non-equilibrium thermodynamics.

    1922: Physicist Peter Mazur dies. Mazur was a pioneer the field of non-equilibrium thermodynamics.

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