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||1749: William Jones dies ... mathematician and academic. No DOB. Pic.
||1749: William Jones dies ... mathematician and academic. No DOB. Pic.
File:Jean-Jacques Rousseau.jpg|link=Jean-Jacques Rousseau (nonfiction)|1777: Philosopher and author [[Jean-Jacques Rousseau (nonfiction)|Jean-Jacques Rousseau]] warns that "the Enlightenment itself, built as it is on the certainties of mathematics and logic, now stands in peril from the generation of [[math criminals]] now coming of age."


||1782: Pierre Berthier born ... mineralogist and mining engineer who discovered bauxite (aluminium ore) on 23 Mar 1821 near the village Les Baux de Provence in southern France. On 24 May 1806, he joined the central laboratory at the Board of Mines. From 1816, he was chief of the laboratory at the École des Mines, and professor of assaying. Berthier analyzed kaolin along with dozens of other minerals and ores. He sought out phosphate deposits valuable for agriculture. He published a treatise (1834) of practical analytical procedures that were widely used by other mineralogists. In another field, Berthier noticed - before Mitscherlich - that isomorphism occurred whereby chemically different substances can have the same crystalline form and even co-crystallize. Pic.
||1782: Pierre Berthier born ... mineralogist and mining engineer who discovered bauxite (aluminium ore) on 23 Mar 1821 near the village Les Baux de Provence in southern France. On 24 May 1806, he joined the central laboratory at the Board of Mines. From 1816, he was chief of the laboratory at the École des Mines, and professor of assaying. Berthier analyzed kaolin along with dozens of other minerals and ores. He sought out phosphate deposits valuable for agriculture. He published a treatise (1834) of practical analytical procedures that were widely used by other mineralogists. In another field, Berthier noticed - before Mitscherlich - that isomorphism occurred whereby chemically different substances can have the same crystalline form and even co-crystallize. Pic.
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||1897: Jesse Douglas born ... mathematician and academic. He will contribute a general solution of the Problem of Plateau, which asks whether a minimal surface exists for a given boundary. The problem, open since 1760 when Lagrange raised it, is part of the calculus of variations and is also known as the soap bubble problem. Pic search.
||1897: Jesse Douglas born ... mathematician and academic. He will contribute a general solution of the Problem of Plateau, which asks whether a minimal surface exists for a given boundary. The problem, open since 1760 when Lagrange raised it, is part of the calculus of variations and is also known as the soap bubble problem. Pic search.
File:Marie Curie c1920.jpg|link=Marie Curie (nonfiction)|1901: Physicist, chemist, and [[Gnomon algorithm]] theorist [[Marie Curie (nonfiction)|Marie Curie]] publishes evidence that [[Extract of Radium]] is a parasitic [[transdimensional drug]].


||1903: Leopold Bernhard Gegenbauer dies ... mathematician remembered best as an algebraist. Gegenbauer polynomials are named after him. Pic.
||1903: Leopold Bernhard Gegenbauer dies ... mathematician remembered best as an algebraist. Gegenbauer polynomials are named after him. Pic.
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||1941: Włodzimierz Stożek  dies was a Polish mathematician.  He published numerous papers on the theory of integral equations, potential theory, as well as on many other branches of mathematics. (Death date: or July 4). Pic.
||1941: Włodzimierz Stożek  dies was a Polish mathematician.  He published numerous papers on the theory of integral equations, potential theory, as well as on many other branches of mathematics. (Death date: or July 4). Pic.
||1957: Frederick Alexander Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell dies - British physicist who was prime scientific adviser to Winston Churchill in World War II. Pic.


||1964: Isidor Pavlovich Natanson dies ... mathematician known for contributions to real analysis and constructive function theory, in particular, for his textbooks on these subjects. Pic search.
||1964: Isidor Pavlovich Natanson dies ... mathematician known for contributions to real analysis and constructive function theory, in particular, for his textbooks on these subjects. Pic search.


File:Egon Rhodomunde.jpg|link=Egon Rhodomunde|1968: Film director and arms dealer [[Egon Rhodomunde]] raises money for new film by shelling shares in the upcoming [[N1 rocket (nonfiction)|N1 rocket explosion]].
File:N1 19 September 1968.jpg|link=N1 rocket (nonfiction)|1969: The biggest explosion in the history of rocketry occurs when the Soviet [[N1 rocket (nonfiction)|N1 rocket]] explodes and subsequently destroys its launchpad.


File:N1 19 September 1968.jpg|link=N1 rocket (nonfiction)|1969: The biggest explosion in the history of rocketry occurs when the Soviet [[N1 rocket (nonfiction)|N1 rocket]] explodes and subsequently destroys its launchpad.
||1977: Alexander Volkov dies ... mathematician and author. Pic search.


File:Igor Shafarevich.jpg|link=Igor Shafarevich (nonfiction)|1970: Mathematician, dissident, and crime-fighter [[Igor Shafarevich (nonfiction)|Igor Shafarevich]] publishes new class of [[Gnomon algorithm functions]] which detect and prevent [[crimes against mathematical constants]].
||Ixtoc I oil spill: Ixtoc I was an exploratory oil well being drilled by the semi-submersible drilling rig Sedco 135 in the Bay of Campeche of the Gulf of Mexico, about 100 km (62 mi) northwest of Ciudad del Carmen, Campeche in waters 50 m (164 ft) deep. On 3 June 1979, the well suffered a blowout resulting in one of the largest oil spills in history.


||1977: Alexander Volkov dies ... mathematician and author. Pic search.
||1985: Charles Herbert Colvin dies ... engineer, co-founded the Pioneer Instrument Company. Pic search.


||1988: United States Navy warship USS '''Vincennes''' shoots down Iran Air Flight 655 over the Persian Gulf, killing all 290 people aboard.
||1988: United States Navy warship USS '''Vincennes''' shoots down Iran Air Flight 655 over the Persian Gulf, killing all 290 people aboard.
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||1991: Ernst Witt dies ... mathematician, one of the leading algebraists of his time. Pic.
||1991: Ernst Witt dies ... mathematician, one of the leading algebraists of his time. Pic.


||1998: Danielle Bunten Berry dies ... game designer and programmer.
||1998: Danielle Bunten Berry dies ... game designer and programmer. Pic.


||2006: Joseph Goguen dies ... computer scientist, developed the OBJ programming language. Pic.
||2006: Joseph Goguen dies ... computer scientist, developed the OBJ programming language. Pic.


File:Stardust at comet Wild 2.jpg|link=Stardust (spacecraft) (nonfiction)|2007: NASA approves a mission extension for [[Stardust (spacecraft) (nonfiction)|Stardust]], sending the spacecraft to comet Tempel 1.
File:Stardust at comet Wild 2.jpg|link=Stardust (spacecraft) (nonfiction)|2007: NASA approves a mission extension for [[Stardust (spacecraft) (nonfiction)|Stardust]], sending the spacecraft to comet Tempel 1.
File:Green Tangle.jpg|link=Green Tangle (nonfiction)|2016: Chromatographic analysis of ''[[Green Tangle (nonfiction)|Green Tangle]]'' unexpectedly reveals "at least five, perhaps as many as ten" previously unknown shades of [[Green (nonfiction)|green]].


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