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File:Cesare Cremonini.jpg|link=Cesare Cremonini (nonfiction)|1550: Philosopher and academic [[Cesare Cremonini (nonfiction)|Cesare Cremonini]] born. His work will promote rationalism (against revelation) and Aristotelian materialism (against the dualist immortality of the soul) inside scholasticism. | File:Cesare Cremonini.jpg|link=Cesare Cremonini (nonfiction)|1550: Philosopher and academic [[Cesare Cremonini (nonfiction)|Cesare Cremonini]] born. His work will promote rationalism (against revelation) and Aristotelian materialism (against the dualist immortality of the soul) inside scholasticism. | ||
||1640: Jean de Beaugrand dies ... lineographer of the seventeenth century. Though born in Mulhouse, de Beaugrand moved to Paris in 1581. He also worked as a mathematician and published works on geostatics. He is credited with naming the cycloid. No DOB. Pic: coat of arms. | ||1640: Jean de Beaugrand dies ... lineographer of the seventeenth century. Though born in Mulhouse, de Beaugrand moved to Paris in 1581. He also worked as a mathematician and published works on geostatics. He is credited with naming the cycloid. No DOB. Pic: coat of arms. | ||
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||1869: Dmitri Egorov born ... mathematician and academic ... known for significant contributions to the areas of differential geometry and mathematical analysis. Pic. | ||1869: Dmitri Egorov born ... mathematician and academic ... known for significant contributions to the areas of differential geometry and mathematical analysis. Pic. | ||
||1872: Zdzisław Krygowski born - mathematician - has become famous in the history of cryptology for having assisted the Polish General Staff in setting up its cryptology course for Poznań University mathematics students that began on January 15, 1929. Pic search. | |||
||1884: St. Elmo Brady born ... African American chemist and educator. Pic. | ||1884: St. Elmo Brady born ... African American chemist and educator. Pic. | ||
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||1918: Edwin Evariste Moise born ... mathematician and mathematics education reformer. Pic. | ||1918: Edwin Evariste Moise born ... mathematician and mathematics education reformer. Pic. | ||
||1925: Amelie Beese dies ... pilot and engineer. Pic. | ||1925: Amelie Beese dies ... pilot and engineer. Pic. | ||
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||1964: The first test flight of the SR-71 (Blackbird) took place at Air Force Plant 42 in Palmdale, California. | ||1964: The first test flight of the SR-71 (Blackbird) took place at Air Force Plant 42 in Palmdale, California. | ||
|| | File:Norman Lorimer Dean with his Dean drive.jpg|link=Norman Lorimer Dean (nonfiction)|1972: Inventor [[Norman Lorimer Dean (nonfiction)|Norman Lorimer Dean]] dies. Dean designed the Dean drive, which he promoted as a reactionless drive. | ||
||2000: Herman Feshbach dies ... physicist. He was an Institute Professor Emeritus of physics at MIT. Feshbach is best known for Feshbach resonance and for writing, with Philip M. Morse, Methods of Theoretical Physics. Pic search | ||1996: Jack Hamm dies ... cartoonist and television host. Pic search. | ||
||2000: Herman Feshbach dies ... physicist. He was an Institute Professor Emeritus of physics at MIT. Feshbach is best known for Feshbach resonance and for writing, with Philip M. Morse, Methods of Theoretical Physics. Pic search. | |||
||2003: Wah Ming Chang born ... designer, sculptor, and artist. With the encouragement of his adopted father, James Blanding Sloan, he began exhibiting his prints and watercolors at the age of seven to highly favorable reviews. Chang worked with Sloan on several theatre productions and in the 1940s, they briefly created their own studio to produce films. He is known later in life for his sculpture and the props he designed for Star Trek: The Original Series, including the tricorder and communicator. Pic. | ||2003: Wah Ming Chang born ... designer, sculptor, and artist. With the encouragement of his adopted father, James Blanding Sloan, he began exhibiting his prints and watercolors at the age of seven to highly favorable reviews. Chang worked with Sloan on several theatre productions and in the 1940s, they briefly created their own studio to produce films. He is known later in life for his sculpture and the props he designed for Star Trek: The Original Series, including the tricorder and communicator. Pic. | ||
||2014: John Robert Beyster dies ... physicist and academic. Pic search | ||2014: John Robert Beyster dies ... physicist and academic. Pic search. | ||
||2016: Jack Howard Silver dies ... set theorist, logician, and academic.He made several contributions to set theory in the areas of large cardinals and the constructible universe L. Pic. | ||2016: Jack Howard Silver dies ... set theorist, logician, and academic.He made several contributions to set theory in the areas of large cardinals and the constructible universe L. Pic. | ||
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1550: Philosopher and academic Cesare Cremonini born. His work will promote rationalism (against revelation) and Aristotelian materialism (against the dualist immortality of the soul) inside scholasticism.
1693: Astronomer Elisabeth Hevelius dies. One of the first female astronomers, Hevelius is known as "the mother of moon charts".
1732: Inventor, engineer, and businessman Richard Arkwright born. Later in his life Arkwright will be known as the "father of the modern industrial factory system."
1765: Mathematician Johann Friedrich Pfaff born. He will work on partial differential equations of the first order Pfaffian systems, as they are now called, which will become part of the theory of differential forms.
1858: Composer Giacomo Puccini born. He will be called "the greatest composer of Italian opera after Verdi".
1887: Mathematician and theorist Srinivasa Ramanujan born. He will make substantial contributions to mathematical analysis, number theory, infinite series, and continued fractions, including solutions to mathematical problems considered to be unsolvable.
1894: The Dreyfus affair begins in France, when Alfred Dreyfus is wrongly convicted of treason.
1972: Inventor Norman Lorimer Dean dies. Dean designed the Dean drive, which he promoted as a reactionless drive.