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||217: Roman Emperor Caracalla is assassinated. He is succeeded by his Praetorian Guard prefect, Marcus Opellius Macrinus. Pic.
File:Theoricarum by Peuerbach 1915.png|link=Georg von Peuerbach (nonfiction)|1461: Mathematician and astronomer [[Georg von Peuerbach (nonfiction)|Georg von Peuerbach]] dies.  Peuerbach is remembered for his streamlined presentation of Ptolemaic astronomy in the ''Theoricae Novae Planetarum''.


File:Michele_Mercati_by_Petrus_Nellus.jpg|link=Michele Mercati (nonfiction)|1541: Physician and archaeologist [[Michele Mercati (nonfiction)|Michele Mercati]] born. Mercati will be one of the first scholars to recognize prehistoric stone tools as human-made rather than natural or mythologically created thunderstones.
File:Michele_Mercati_by_Petrus_Nellus.jpg|link=Michele Mercati (nonfiction)|1541: Physician and archaeologist [[Michele Mercati (nonfiction)|Michele Mercati]] born. Mercati will be one of the first scholars to recognize prehistoric stone tools as human-made rather than natural or mythologically created thunderstones.


File:David Rittenhouse by Charles Wilson Peale.jpg|link=David Rittenhouse (nonfiction)|link=David Rittenhouse (nonfiction)|1732: Inventor, astronomer, mathematician, clockmaker, and surveyor [[David Rittenhouse (nonfiction)|David Rittenhouse]] born. Rittenhouse will become the first Director of the United States Mint, hand-striking the new nation's first coins.
File:David Rittenhouse by Charles Wilson Peale.jpg|link=David Rittenhouse (nonfiction)|link=David Rittenhouse (nonfiction)|1732: Inventor, astronomer, mathematician, clockmaker, and surveyor [[David Rittenhouse (nonfiction)|David Rittenhouse]] born. Rittenhouse will become the first Director of the United States Mint, hand-striking the new nation's first coins.
||1839: Pierre Prévost dies ... philosopher and physicist. In 1791 he explained Pictet's experiment by arguing that all bodies radiate heat, no matter how hot or cold they are. Pic.
||1779: Johann Salomo Christoph Schweigger born ... chemist, physicist, and professor of mathematics. Pic.


File:Du_calcul_des_derivations_(1800)_by_Louis_François_Antoine_Arbogast.png|link=Louis François Antoine Arbogast (nonfiction)|1803: Mathematician [[Louis François Antoine Arbogast (nonfiction)|Louis François Antoine Arbogast]] dies. Arbogast was the first writer to separate the symbols of operation from those of quantity.  He wrote on series and the derivatives known by his name.
File:Du_calcul_des_derivations_(1800)_by_Louis_François_Antoine_Arbogast.png|link=Louis François Antoine Arbogast (nonfiction)|1803: Mathematician [[Louis François Antoine Arbogast (nonfiction)|Louis François Antoine Arbogast]] dies. Arbogast was the first writer to separate the symbols of operation from those of quantity.  He wrote on series and the derivatives known by his name.
||1817: Charles-Édouard Brown-Séquard born ... physiologist and neurologist who, in 1850, became the first to describe what is now called Brown-Séquard syndrome. Pic.
||1818: August Wilhelm von Hofmann born ... chemist and academic. Pic.
||1820: The Venus de Milo is discovered on the Aegean island of Milos. Pic.
||1857: Lucy, Lady Houston born ... philanthropist, political activist, and suffragette. Beginning in 1933, she published Britain's ''Saturday Review'', which was best known for its attacks on what the paper labelled the "unpatriotic" National Governments of Ramsay MacDonald and Stanley Baldwin. She has been acknowledged as an aviation pioneer, "the saviour of the Spitfire". Pic.
File:Havelock.jpg|link=Havelock|1858: Mathematician and alleged time-traveller [[John Havelock]] publishes his monumental three-volume Gnomonic biography of [[David Rittenhouse (nonfiction)|David Rittenhouse]]. Although the biography will not sell well in Havelock's day, the book will come to be seen as foundational to modern [[Crimes against mathematical constants|mathematical crime-fighting]].
File:Edmund Husserl 1910s.jpg|link=Edmund Husserl (nonfiction)|1859: Mathematician and philosopher [[Edmund Husserl (nonfiction)|Edmund Husserl]] born. Husserl will argue that transcendental consciousness sets the limits of all possible knowledge.


File:Marhall Harvey Stone Zurich 1932.jpg|link=Marshall Harvey Stone (nonfiction)|1903: Mathematician [[Marshall Harvey Stone (nonfiction)|Marshall Harvey Stone]] born. Stone will contribute to real analysis, functional analysis, topology, and the study of Boolean algebra structures.
File:Marhall Harvey Stone Zurich 1932.jpg|link=Marshall Harvey Stone (nonfiction)|1903: Mathematician [[Marshall Harvey Stone (nonfiction)|Marshall Harvey Stone]] born. Stone will contribute to real analysis, functional analysis, topology, and the study of Boolean algebra structures.


||1903: Aurel Friedrich Wintner born ... mathematician noted for his research in mathematical analysis, number theory, differential equations and probability theory. He was one of the founders of probabilistic number theory. Pic.
File:Heike Kamerlingh Onnes.jpg|link=Heike Kamerlingh Onnes (nonfiction)|1911: Physicist [[Heike Kamerlingh Onnes (nonfiction)|Heike Kamerlingh Onnes]], discoverer of superconductivity, makes a terse entry in his notebook: ''Kwik nagenoeg nul'' ("Mercury[’s resistance] practically zero [at 3 K].").
 
||1904: Philip Ivor Dee born ... 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
 
File:Aleister Crowley.jpg|link=Aleister Crowley (nonfiction)|1904: Mystic and thrill-seeker [[Aleister Crowley (nonfiction)|Aleister Crowley]] transcribes the first chapter of The Book of the Law.
 
File:Heike Kamerlingh Onnes.jpg|link=Heike Kamerlingh Onnes (nonfiction)|1911: Physicist [[Heike Kamerlingh Onnes (nonfiction)|Heike Kamerlingh Onnes]] discovers superconductivity.
 
||1911: Melvin Calvin born ... biochemist most famed for discovering the Calvin cycle along with Andrew Benson and James Bassham, for which he was awarded the 1961 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. Pic.
 
||1913: Gyula Kőnig dies ... mathematician. His work on polynomial ideals, discriminants and elimination theory can be considered as a link between Leopold Kronecker and David Hilbert as well as Emmy Noether. Pic.
 
File:Ernst_Ruhmer,_Technical_World_cover_(1905).jpg|link=Ernst Ruhmer (nonfiction)|1913: Physicist [[Ernst Ruhmer (nonfiction)|Ernst Ruhmer]] dies. Ruhmer invented applications for the light-sensitivity properties of selenium, including wireless telephony using line-of-sight optical transmissions, sound-on-film audio recording, and television transmissions over wires.
 
||1917: Winifred Asprey born ... mathematician and computer scientist. Pic.
 
||1919: Loránd Eötvös dies ... physicist, academic, and politician, Hungarian Minister of Education. Pic.
 
||1923: George Fisher born ... cartoonist. Pic search.
 
||1934: Kisho Kurokawa born ... architect, designed the Nakagin Capsule Tower; he was one of the founders of the Metabolist Movement. Pic.
 
File:Karl_Heinrich_Emil_Becker.jpg|link=Karl Heinrich Emil Becker (nonfiction)|1940: Weapons engineer and army officer [[Karl Heinrich Emil Becker (nonfiction)|Karl Heinrich Emil Becker]] takes his own life. Becker promoted the integration of scientific research into military goals, notably advanced weapons design.
 
||1942: Suzan Rose Benedict dies ... mathematician and academic. She had a long teaching career at Smith College. Pic.
 
||1943: U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, in an attempt to check inflation, freezes wages and prices, prohibits workers from changing jobs unless the war effort would be aided thereby, and bars rate increases by common carriers and public utilities.
 
||1943: Otto and Elise Hampel are executed in Berlin for their anti-Nazi activities. Pics.
 
||1946: Électricité de France, the world's largest utility company, is formed as a result of the nationalisation of a number of electricity producers, transporters and distributors.
 
File:Commodore Grace M. Hopper, USN.jpg|link=Grace Hopper (nonfiction)|1959: A team of computer manufacturers, users, and university people led by [[Grace Hopper (nonfiction)|Grace Hopper]] meets to discuss the creation of a new programming language that would be called COBOL.
 
||1964: The Gemini 1 test flight is conducted.
 
||1969: Zinaida Aksentyeva dies ... astronomer. Pic search.
 
||1984: Pyotr Kapitsa dies ... physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic.
 
||1992: Daniel Bovet dies ... pharmacologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic.
 
File:Graham Higman.jpg|link=Graham Higman (nonfiction)|2008: Mathematician [[Graham Higman (nonfiction)|Graham Higman]] dies. In mathematics, Higman contributed to group theory.  Higman, a conscientious objector, worked at the Meteorological Office in Northern Ireland and Gibraltar during the Second World War.
 
File:Boxes.jpg|link=Boxes (nonfiction)|2016: Signed first edition of ''[[Boxes (nonfiction)|Boxes]]'' purchased for an undisclosed amount by "an eminent [[Gnomon algorithm]] theorist residing in [[New Minneapolis, Canada]]."
 
File:Donald Sarason 2003.jpg|link=Donald Sarason (nonfiction)|2017: Mathematician [[Donald Sarason (nonfiction)|Donald Sarason]] dies. Sarason made fundamental advances in the areas of Hardy space theory and Vanishing mean oscillation (VMO).


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  • 1541: Physician and archaeologist Michele Mercati born. Mercati will be one of the first scholars to recognize prehistoric stone tools as human-made rather than natural or mythologically created thunderstones.

    1541: Physician and archaeologist Michele Mercati born. Mercati will be one of the first scholars to recognize prehistoric stone tools as human-made rather than natural or mythologically created thunderstones.

  • 1732: Inventor, astronomer, mathematician, clockmaker, and surveyor David Rittenhouse born. Rittenhouse will become the first Director of the United States Mint, hand-striking the new nation's first coins.

    1732: Inventor, astronomer, mathematician, clockmaker, and surveyor David Rittenhouse born. Rittenhouse will become the first Director of the United States Mint, hand-striking the new nation's first coins.

  • 1803: Mathematician Louis François Antoine Arbogast dies. Arbogast was the first writer to separate the symbols of operation from those of quantity. He wrote on series and the derivatives known by his name.

    1803: Mathematician Louis François Antoine Arbogast dies. Arbogast was the first writer to separate the symbols of operation from those of quantity. He wrote on series and the derivatives known by his name.

  • 1903: Mathematician Marshall Harvey Stone born. Stone will contribute to real analysis, functional analysis, topology, and the study of Boolean algebra structures.

    1903: Mathematician Marshall Harvey Stone born. Stone will contribute to real analysis, functional analysis, topology, and the study of Boolean algebra structures.

  • 1911: Physicist Heike Kamerlingh Onnes, discoverer of superconductivity, makes a terse entry in his notebook: Kwik nagenoeg nul ("Mercury[’s resistance] practically zero [at 3 K].").

    1911: Physicist Heike Kamerlingh Onnes, discoverer of superconductivity, makes a terse entry in his notebook: Kwik nagenoeg nul ("Mercury[’s resistance] practically zero [at 3 K].").

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