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||485: Proclus dies ... mathematician and philosopher. Pic search.


File:Giovanni_Battista_Riccioli.jpg|link=Giovanni Battista Riccioli (nonfiction)|1598: Priest and astromomer [[Giovanni Battista Riccioli (nonfiction)|Giovanni Battista Riccioli]] born. Riccioli will experiment with pendulums and falling bodies, discuss arguments concerning the motion of the Earth, and introduce the current scheme of lunar nomenclature.
File:Giovanni_Battista_Riccioli.jpg|link=Giovanni Battista Riccioli (nonfiction)|1598: Priest and astromomer [[Giovanni Battista Riccioli (nonfiction)|Giovanni Battista Riccioli]] born. Riccioli will experiment with pendulums and falling bodies, discuss arguments concerning the motion of the Earth, and introduce the current scheme of lunar nomenclature.
||1605: Clergyman, mathematician, and astrologer Nathaniel Torporley buried. Pic search French wiki: https://www.google.com/search?q=Nathaniel+Torporley
||1774: Friedrich Koenig born ... inventor best known for his high-speed steam-powered printing press, which he built together with watchmaker Andreas Friedrich Bauer. This new style of printing press could print up to 1,100 sheets per hour, printing on both sides of the paper at the same time. Pic.
File:Johan Carl Wilcke.jpg|link=Johan Wilcke (nonfiction)|1781: Physicist [[Johan Wilcke (nonfiction)|Johan Carl Wilcke]] invents an electrophorus which uses [[Gnomon algorithm]] techniques to calculate the latent heat of ice.
File:Benjamin_Franklin_Drawing_Electricity_from_the_Sky_(circa_1816)_by_Benjamin_West.jpg|link=Benjamin Franklin (nonfiction)|1790: Polymath [[Benjamin Franklin (nonfiction)|Benjamin Franklin]] dies. Franklin was a leading writer, printer, political philosopher, politician, Freemason, postmaster, scientist, inventor, humorist, civic activist, statesman, and diplomat.
||1798: Étienne Bobillier born ... mathematician and academic. Pic search.
||1843: Samuel Morey dies ... inventor, who worked on early internal combustion engines and was a pioneer in steamships who accumulated a total of 20 patents. Pic search.
||1863: Augustus Edward Hough Love born ... mathematician and theorist ... famous for his work on the mathematical theory of elasticity. He also worked on wave propagation and his work on the structure of the Earth in Some Problems of Geodynamics won for him the Adams prize in 1911 when he developed a mathematical model of surface waves known as Love waves. Love also contributed to the theory of tidal locking and introduced the parameters known as Love numbers, which are widely used today. These numbers are also used in problems related to the tidal deformation of the Earth due to the gravitational attraction of the Moon and Sun. Pic.
||1879: Carl Wilhelm Oseen born ... theoretical physicist in Uppsala and Director of the Nobel Institute for Theoretical Physics in Stockholm. He formulated the fundamentals of the elasticity theory of liquid crystals (Oseen elasticity theory), as well as the Oseen equations for viscous fluid flow at small Reynolds numbers. He gave his name to the Oseen tensor and, with Horace Lamb, to the Lamb–Oseen vortex. Pic.
||1882: George Jennings dies ... engineer and plumber, invented the Flush toilet. No pics online.
||1891: George Adamski born ... ufologist and author ... became widely known in ufology circles, and to some degree in popular culture, after he claimed to have photographed spaceships from other planets, met with friendly Nordic alien Space Brothers, and to have taken flights with them to the Moon and other planets. Adamski was the first, and most famous, of the so-called contactees of the 1950s.  Pic.
||1895: Robert Dean Frisbie born ... American soldier and author ... travel, Polynesia.  Pic search.
File:John Ambrose Fleming 1890.png|link=John Ambrose Fleming (nonfiction)|1901: Electrical engineer, physicist, and engineer [[John Ambrose Fleming (nonfiction)|John Ambrose Fleming]] publishes new class of [[Gnomon algorithm functions]] which use thermionic valves to detect and prevent [[crimes against physical constants]].
File:Eberhard_Hopf.jpg|link=Eberhard Hopf (nonfiction)|1902: Mathematician and astronomer [[Eberhard Hopf (nonfiction)|Eberhard Hopf]] born. Hopf will pioneer ergodic theory and bifurcation theory, and make contributions to partial differential equations, integral equations, fluid dynamics, and differential geometry.
||1903: John Jay Gergen born ... mathematician who introduced the Lebesgue–Gergen criterion for convergence of a Fourier series. Pic: https://math.duke.edu/gergen
File:Albert Einstein 1921.jpg|link=Albert Einstein (nonfiction)|1915: Physicist, engineer, and alleged time-traveller [[Albert Einstein (nonfiction)|Albert Einstein]] makes radio contact with orbital artificial intelligence [[AESOP]].
||1918: Friedrich Karl Johannes Thiele dies ... chemist and a prominent professor at several universities, including those in Munich and Strasbourg. He developed many laboratory techniques related to isolation of organic compounds. In 1907 he described a device for the accurate determination of melting points, since named Thiele tube after him. Pic.


File:Kerry Wendell Thornley.jpg|link=Kerry Wendell Thornley (nonfiction)|1938: Philosopher and author [[Kerry Wendell Thornley (nonfiction)|Kerry Wendell Thornley]] born. Thornley will write a manuscript, ''The Idle Warriors'', about his acquaintence Lee Harvey Oswald.
File:Kerry Wendell Thornley.jpg|link=Kerry Wendell Thornley (nonfiction)|1938: Philosopher and author [[Kerry Wendell Thornley (nonfiction)|Kerry Wendell Thornley]] born. Thornley will write a manuscript, ''The Idle Warriors'', about his acquaintence Lee Harvey Oswald.
||1942: Jean Baptiste Perrin dies ... physicist and chemist, Nobel Prize laureate ...  for his studies of the Brownian motion of minute particles suspended in liquids, verified Albert Einstein’s explanation of this phenomenon and thereby confirmed the atomic nature of matter (sedimentation equilibrium). Pic.
||1944: John Howard Redfield ies ... mathematician, best known for discovery of what is now called Pólya enumeration theorem (PET) in 1927; "in 1940 he came to Haverford College and gave us some lectures on 'Electronic Digital Computers' " Pic: book cover: http://www.worldcat.org/title/recollections-of-john-howard-redfield/oclc/4524551
||1961: Elda Anderson dies ... physicist and health researcher. She worked on the Manhattan Project at Princeton University and the Los Alamos Laboratory, where she prepared the first sample of pure uranium-235 at the laboratory. Pic.


File:Bay of Pigs.jpg|link=Bay of Pigs Invasion (nonfiction)|1961: [[Bay of Pigs Invasion (nonfiction)|Bay of Pigs Invasion]]: A group of Cuban exiles financed and trained by the CIA lands at the Bay of Pigs in Cuba with the aim of ousting Fidel Castro.
File:Bay of Pigs.jpg|link=Bay of Pigs Invasion (nonfiction)|1961: [[Bay of Pigs Invasion (nonfiction)|Bay of Pigs Invasion]]: A group of Cuban exiles financed and trained by the CIA lands at the Bay of Pigs in Cuba with the aim of ousting Fidel Castro.


File:Baron Zersetzung.jpg|link=Baron Zersetzung|1968: Industrialist, motivational speaker, and alleged crime boss [[Colonel Zersetzung]] takes possession of a large quantity of military-grade [[Clandestiphrine]].
File:Sirhan_Sirhan.jpg|link=Assassination of Robert F. Kennedy (nonfiction)|1969: Sirhan Sirhan is convicted of [[Assassination of Robert F. Kennedy (nonfiction)|assassinating Robert F. Kennedy]].
 
File:Robert F. Kennedy assassination.jpg|link=Assassination of Robert F. Kennedy (nonfiction)|1969: Sirhan Sirhan is convicted of [[Assassination of Robert F. Kennedy (nonfiction)|assassinating Robert F. Kennedy]].
 
||1970: Apollo program: The ill-fated Apollo 13 spacecraft returns to Earth safely.
 
||1974: Hugh Stott Taylor dies ... chemist primarily interested in catalysis. In 1925, in a landmark contribution to catalytic theory, Taylor suggested that a catalyzed chemical reaction is not catalysed over the entire solid surface of the catalyst but only at certain 'active sites' or centers. He also developed important methods for procuring heavy water during World War II and pioneered the use of stable isotopes in studying chemical reactions. Pic search.
 
||1976: Henrik Dam dies ... biochemist and physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic.
 
||1977: Richard Dagobert Brauer dies ... mathematician. He worked mainly in abstract algebra, but made important contributions to number theory. He was the founder of modular representation theory. Pic.
 
File:Curt Meyer.jpg|link=Curt Meyer (nonfiction)|1978: Mathematician and crime-fighter [[Curt Meyer (nonfiction)|Curt Meyer]] publishes an alternative solution to the class number 1 problem which uses [[Gnomon algorithm functions]] to detect and erase the [[Forbidden Ratio]].
 
||1983: Philip Ivor Dee dies ... British nuclear physicist. He was responsible for the development of airborne radar during the Second World War. Pic: https://www.universitystory.gla.ac.uk/image/?id=UGSP01005&o=&start=&max=&l=&biog=WH0266&type=P&p=2
 
||1994: Roger Wolcott Sperry dies ... neurobiologist, corecipient with David Hunter Hubel and Torsten Nils Wiesel of the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1981 for their investigations of brain function, Sperry in particular for his study of functional specialization in the cerebral hemispheres. He was responsible for overturning the widespread belief that the left brain is dominant by showing that several cognitive abilities were localized in the right brain. He also provided experimental proof for the specificity of the reconnection of regenerating severed neurons in newts, which later led to new theories on how neurons grow. After 1965, his work turned more to psychology and philosophy. Pic.
 
File:Piet Hein and H.C. Andersen.jpg|link=Piet Hein (nonfiction)|1996: Mathematician, author, and poet [[Piet Hein (nonfiction)|Piet Hein]] dies. He proposed the use of superellipses in architecture; superellipses subsequently became the hallmark of modern Scandinavian architecture.
 
||2007: Horace Richard Crane dies ... physicist, the inventor of the Race Track Synchrotron, a recipient of President Ronald Reagan's National Medal of Science "for the first measurement of the magnetic moment and spin of free electrons and positrons". He was also noted for proving the existence of neutrinos. Pic search.
 
||2012: Stephen James Rallis dies ... mathematician who worked on group representations, automorphic forms, the Siegel–Weil formula, and Langlands L-functions. Pic.
 
||2012: Irving Millman dies ... virologist and microbiologist. Pic search.
 
||2014: NASA's Kepler space observatory confirms the discovery of the first Earth-size planet in the habitable zone of another star.


File:Angry_Feller.jpg|link=Angry Feller (nonfiction)|2018: Steganographic analysis of ''[[Angry Feller (nonfiction)|Angry Feller]]'' unexpectedly reveals "at least a megabyte of plaintext data, mostly unsent letters to the editor in the 'You kids get off my lawn' category."
File:Piet Hein and H.C. Andersen.jpg|link=Piet Hein (nonfiction)|1996: Mathematician, author, and poet [[Piet Hein (nonfiction)|Piet Hein]] dies. Hein proposed the use of superellipses in architecture; superellipses subsequently became the hallmark of modern Scandinavian architecture.


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