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| ||1762: Nicolas Louis de Lacaille dies ... priest, astronomer, and academic. He named 15 out of the 88 constellations. Pic.
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| ||1767: Armand Jean François Séguin born ... chemist and physiologist who discovered a faster and cheaper process for tanning leather. As a result, he became immensely rich through the supply of leather to Napoleon's armies. Pic search.
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| File:Joseph_Fourier.jpg|link=Joseph Fourier (nonfiction)|1768: Mathematician and physicist [[Joseph Fourier (nonfiction)|Joseph Fourier]] born. Fourier will initiate the investigation of Fourier series and their applications to problems of heat transfer and vibrations. | | File:Joseph_Fourier.jpg|link=Joseph Fourier (nonfiction)|1768: Mathematician and physicist [[Joseph Fourier (nonfiction)|Joseph Fourier]] born. Fourier will initiate the investigation of Fourier series and their applications to problems of heat transfer and vibrations. |
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| ||1772: Jacques-Nicolas Bellin dies ... geographer and cartographer. No DOB. Pic: map.
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| ||1788: Ignaz Venetz born ... engineer, naturalist, and glaciologist; as one of the first scientists to recognize glaciers as a major force in shaping the earth, he played a leading role in the foundation of glaciology. Pic.
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| ||1806: Cosimo Alessandro Collini dies ... historian and Voltaire's secretary from 1752 to 1756. Pic.
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| ||1809: Inventor Mary Kies born ... she will be the first woman awarded a U.S. patent, for a technique of weaving straw with silk and thread. No DOD. Pic search.
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| ||1864: Luke Howard dies ... chemist and meteorologist. His lasting contribution to science is a nomenclature system for clouds, which he proposed in an 1802 presentation to the Askesian Society. Pic.
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| ||1866: Antonia Maury born ... astronomer and astrophysicist. Pic.
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| ||1888: Arthur Batcheller born ... pioneer in early radio. Pic.
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| File:George_David_Birkhoff.jpg|link=George David Birkhoff (nonfiction)|1884: Mathematician [[George David Birkhoff (nonfiction)|George David Birkhoff]] born. Birkhoff will become one of the most important leaders in American mathematics of his generation. | | File:George_David_Birkhoff.jpg|link=George David Birkhoff (nonfiction)|1884: Mathematician [[George David Birkhoff (nonfiction)|George David Birkhoff]] born. Birkhoff will become one of the most important leaders in American mathematics of his generation. |
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| ||1892: Annibale de Gasparis dies ... astronomer, discovered asteroids. Pic.
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| ||1894: Rudolf Nebel born ... spaceflight advocate active in Germany's amateur rocket group, the ''Verein für Raumschiffahrt'' (VfR – "Spaceflight Society") in the 1930s and in rebuilding German rocketry following World War II. Pic search.
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| ||1896: William Quan Judge dies ... occultist and theosophist. Pic.
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| ||1896: Friedrich Waismann born ... mathematician, physicist, and philosopher from the Vienna Circle. Pic search.
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| |||File:Tesla with ray gun.jpg|link=Nikola Tesla|1901: Physicist, inventor, and crime-fighter [[Nikola Tesla]] predicts that mathematician [[George David Birkhoff (nonfiction)|George David Birkhoff]] will be "one of the great [[Crimes against mathematical constants|crime fighters]] of his generation."
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| ||1911: Walter Lincoln Hawkins born ... scientist and inventor. Hawkins was a pioneer of polymer chemistry. For thirty-four years he worked at Bell Laboratories, where he was instrumental in designing a long-lasting plastic to sheath telephone cable. Pic search.
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| ||1913: Guillermo Haro Barraza born ... astronomer. Through his own astronomical research and the formation of new institutions, Haro was influential in the development of modern observational astronomy in Mexico. Internationally, he is best known for his contribution to the discovery of Herbig–Haro objects. Pic.
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| ||1920: John Michael Hammersley born ... mathematician best known for his foundational work in the theory of self-avoiding walks and percolation theory. Pic.
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| ||1923: Physicist and academic Albert Allen Bartlett born ... lectured on Arithmetic, Population, and Energy.[3][4] Bartlett regarded the word combination "sustainable growth" as an oxymoron, since even modest annual percentage population increases will inevitably equate to huge exponential growth over sustained periods of time. He therefore regarded human overpopulation as "The Greatest Challenge" facing humanity. Pic.
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| ||1923: Nizar Qabbani born ... poet, publisher, and diplomat. His poetic style combines simplicity and elegance in exploring themes of love, eroticism, feminism, religion, and Arab nationalism. Qabbani is one of the most revered contemporary poets in the Arab world, and is considered to be Syria's National Poet. Pic.
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| File:Harry Lehmann.jpg|link=Harry Lehmann (nonfiction)|1924: Physicist [[Harry Lehmann (nonfiction)|Harry Lehmann]] born. Lehmann will contribute to the LSZ reduction formula and the Källén–Lehmann spectral representation. | | File:Harry Lehmann.jpg|link=Harry Lehmann (nonfiction)|1924: Physicist [[Harry Lehmann (nonfiction)|Harry Lehmann]] born. Lehmann will contribute to the LSZ reduction formula and the Källén–Lehmann spectral representation. |
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| ||1925: The Butler Act prohibits the teaching of human evolution in Tennessee.
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| ||1927: Halton Arp born ... astronomer. He was known for his 1966 ''Atlas of Peculiar Galaxies'', which (it was later theorized) catalogues many examples of interacting and merging galaxies, though Arp disputed the idea, claiming apparent associations were prime examples of ejections. Arp was also known as a critic of the Big Bang theory and for advocating a non-standard cosmology incorporating intrinsic redshift. Pic.
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| ||1928: Edward Walter Maunder dies ... astronomer and author ... study of sunspots and the solar magnetic cycle that led to his identification of the period from 1645 to 1715 that is now known as the Maunder Minimum. Pic.
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| File:Charles Lindbergh.jpg|link=Charles Lindbergh (nonfiction)|1928: [[Charles Lindbergh (nonfiction)|Charles Lindbergh]] is presented with the Medal of Honor for the first solo trans-Atlantic flight. | | File:Charles Lindbergh.jpg|link=Charles Lindbergh (nonfiction)|1928: [[Charles Lindbergh (nonfiction)|Charles Lindbergh]] is presented with the Medal of Honor for the first solo trans-Atlantic flight. |
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| ||1932: Walter Gilbert born ... physicist and chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (alive August 2018).
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| ||1933: Enrico D'Ovidio dies ... mathematician who is known by his works on geometry. Pic.
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| ||1934: Thomas Muir dies ... mathematician, remembered as an authority on determinants. Pic: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Thomas_Muir_Mathematician.jpg
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| ||1936: Thomas William Hungerford born ... mathematician who worked in algebra and mathematics education. Pic.
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| ||1942: Patcha Ramachandra Tao born ... metallurgist, educator and administrator. Pic.
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| ||1943: Wehrmacht officer Rudolf von Gersdorff plots to assassinate Adolf Hitler by using a suicide bomb, but the plan falls through; von Gersdorff is able to defuse the bomb in time and avoid suspicion. Pic.
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| ||1954: Pál Selényi dies. He was a pioneer of xerography. Pic.
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| |||File:Vandal Savage Field Report Small Boy.jpg|link=Vandal Savage (nonfiction)|1963: Film rights to ''Field Report Number One'' by [[Vandal Savage (nonfiction)|Vandal Savage Press]] sell for nearly a million dollars.
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| File:Ranger spacecraft.jpg|link=Ranger 9 (nonfiction)|1965: NASA launches [[Ranger 9 (nonfiction)|Ranger 9]], the last in a series of unmanned lunar space probes. | | File:Ranger spacecraft.jpg|link=Ranger 9 (nonfiction)|1965: NASA launches [[Ranger 9 (nonfiction)|Ranger 9]], the last in a series of unmanned lunar space probes. |
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| ||1970: The first Earth Day proclamation is issued by Joseph Alioto, Mayor of San Francisco.
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| ||1980: Peter Stoner dies ... mathematician and astronomer. Pic search.
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| ||1980: US President Jimmy Carter announces a United States boycott of the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow to protest the Soviet war in Afghanistan. Pic.
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| ||1983: The first cases of the 1983 West Bank fainting epidemic begin; Israelis and Palestinians accuse each other of poison gas, but the cause is later determined mostly to be psychosomatic.
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| Philippe_Flajolet_uses_computational_complexity_to_defeat_the_Forbidden_Ratio.jpg|link=Philippe Flajolet (nonfiction)|1986: Computer scientist and [[Gnomon algorithm]] theorist [[Philippe Flajolet (nonfiction)|Philippe Flajolet]] uses the theory of average-case complexity to defeat the [[Forbidden Ratio]] in single combat.
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| ||1998: Rose Pauline Peltesohn dies ... mathematician. She solved the Difference Problems of Lothar Heffter (de) (1896) in combinatorics in 1939. Pic.
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| ||1999: Bertrand Piccard and Brian Jones become the first to circumnavigate the Earth in a hot air balloon. Pic.
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| ||2002: Eugene George Rochow dies ... inorganic chemist. Rochow worked on organosilicon chemistry; in the 1940s, he described the direct process, also known as the Rochow process or Müller-Rochow process. Pic.
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| File:Thierry_Aubin_(1976).jpg|link=Thierry Aubin (nonfiction)|2009: Mathematician [[Thierry Aubin (nonfiction)|Thierry Aubin]] dies. Aubin was a leading expert on Riemannian geometry and non-linear partial differential equations.
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| ||2012: Yuri Razuvaev dies ... chess player and trainer. Pic (chess!).
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| ||2015: Hans Erni dies ... painter, sculptor, and illustrator. Erni is known for WW2 camouflage, illustrating postage stamps, his lithographs for the Swiss Red Cross, his participation on the Olympic Committee as well as his activism. Pic.
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| File:Green Ring 2.png|link=Green Ring 2 (nonfiction)|2016: Chromatographic analysis of ''[[Green Ring 2 (nonfiction)|Green Ring 2]]'' reveals "at least two, possibly three" previously unknown shades of the color [[Green (nonfiction)|green]].
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