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| ||1446: Architect and designer Filippo Brunelleschi dies. Brunelleschi was a founder of Renaissance architecture, now recognised to be the first modern engineer, planner, and sole construction supervisor. He is most famous for designing the dome of the Florence Cathedral, a feat of engineering that had not been accomplished since antiquity, as well as the development of the mathematical technique of linear perspective in art which governed pictorial depictions of space until the late 19th century and influenced the rise of modern science. No DOB. Pic.
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| File:Leonardo by Meizi.jpg|link=Leonardo da Vinci (nonfiction)|1452: Polymath [[Leonardo da Vinci (nonfiction)|Leonardo da Vinci]] born. His areas of interest will include painting, sculpting, architecture, invention, science, music, mathematics, engineering, literature, anatomy, geology, astronomy, botany, writing, history, and cartography. | | File:Leonardo by Meizi.jpg|link=Leonardo da Vinci (nonfiction)|1452: Polymath [[Leonardo da Vinci (nonfiction)|Leonardo da Vinci]] born. His areas of interest will include painting, sculpting, architecture, invention, science, music, mathematics, engineering, literature, anatomy, geology, astronomy, botany, writing, history, and cartography. |
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| File:Due_lettioni_date_nella_academia_erigenda_dove_si_mostra_come_si_trovi_la_grandezza_delle_superficie_rettilinee.jpg|link=Pietro Cataldi (nonfiction)|1552: Mathematician and astronomer [[Pietro Cataldi (nonfiction)|Pietro Cataldi]] born. Cataldi will contribute to the development of continued fractions and a method for their representation; he will also discover the sixth and seventh perfect numbers by 1588. | | File:Due_lettioni_date_nella_academia_erigenda_dove_si_mostra_come_si_trovi_la_grandezza_delle_superficie_rettilinee.jpg|link=Pietro Cataldi (nonfiction)|1552: Mathematician and astronomer [[Pietro Cataldi (nonfiction)|Pietro Cataldi]] born. Cataldi will contribute to the development of continued fractions and a method for their representation; he will also discover the sixth and seventh perfect numbers by 1588. |
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| ||1608: Honoré Fabri (Honoratus Fabrius) born ... Jesuit theologian. He was a mathematician, physicist and controversialist. Pic.
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| ||1641: Robert Sibbald born ... physician and antiquary. Pic.
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| ||1704: Johannes Hudde dies ... burgomaster (mayor) of Amsterdam between 1672 – 1703, a mathematician and governor of the Dutch East India Company. He is the namesake of Hudde's rules regarding two properties of polynomial roots. Pic.
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| File:Leonhard Euler.jpg|link=Leonhard Euler (nonfiction)|1707: Mathematician and physicist [[Leonhard Euler (nonfiction)|Leonhard Euler]] born. He will make important and influential discoveries in many branches of mathematics, and will introduce much of the modern mathematical terminology and notation, such as the notion of a mathematical function. | | File:Leonhard Euler.jpg|link=Leonhard Euler (nonfiction)|1707: Mathematician and physicist [[Leonhard Euler (nonfiction)|Leonhard Euler]] born. He will make important and influential discoveries in many branches of mathematics, and will introduce much of the modern mathematical terminology and notation, such as the notion of a mathematical function. |
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| ||1710: William Cullen born ... physician and chemist ... Enlightenment figure. Pic.
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| ||1730: Felice Fontana born ... physicist who discovered the water gas shift reaction in 1780. He is also credited with launching modern toxicology and investigating the human eye. Pic.
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| ||1754: Jacopo Riccati born ... mathematician and academic. Pic.
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| ||1755: Samuel Johnson's ''A Dictionary of the English Language'' is published in London. Pic.
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| File:Peder Horrebow.jpg|link=Peder Horrebow (nonfiction)|1764: Astronomer and mathematician [[Peder Horrebow (nonfiction)|Peder Horrebow]] dies. he invent a way to determine a place's latitude from the stars. | | File:Peder Horrebow.jpg|link=Peder Horrebow (nonfiction)|1764: Astronomer and mathematician [[Peder Horrebow (nonfiction)|Peder Horrebow]] dies. he invent a way to determine a place's latitude from the stars. |
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| ||1765: Mikhail Lomonosov dies ... chemist and physicist. Pic.
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| ||1793: Ignacije Szentmartony dies ... priest, mathematician, and astronomer. Pic search.
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| ||1793: Friedrich Georg Wilhelm von Struve born ... astronomer and geodesist from the famous Struve family. He is best known for studying double stars and for initiating a triangulation survey later named Struve Geodetic Arc in his honor. Pic.
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| File:A la mémoire de J.M. Jacquard.jpg|link=Joseph Marie Jacquard (nonfiction)|1805: Emperor grants the patent for Jacquard’s loom to the city of Lyon. In return, Jacquard received a lifelong pension of 3,000 francs.
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| ||1809: Hermann Grassmann born ... polymath, known in his day as a linguist and now also as a mathematician. He was also a physicist, neohumanist, general scholar, and publisher. Pic.
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| ||1819: Oliver Evans dies ... inventor, engineer and businessman born in rural Delaware and later rooted commercially in Philadelphia. He was one of the first Americans building steam engines and an advocate of high pressure steam (vs. low pressure steam). A pioneer in the fields of automation, materials handling and steam power, Evans was one of the most prolific and influential inventors in the early years of the United States. Pic.
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| ||1833: Maurice (Moritz) Loewy born ... astronomer. Pic search.
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| ||1853: Auguste Laurent dies ... chemist who helped in the founding of organic chemistry with his discoveries of anthracene, phthalic acid, and carbolic acid. He devised a systematic nomenclature for organic chemistry based on structural grouping of atoms within molecules to determine how the molecules combine in organic reactions. Pic.
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| ||1854: Arthur Aikin dies ... chemist and mineralogist. Pic.
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| ||1874: Johannes Stark born ... physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic.
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| File:Ernst_Ruhmer,_Technical_World_cover_(1905).jpg|link=Ernst Ruhmer (nonfiction)|1878: Physicist [[Ernst Ruhmer (nonfiction)|Ernst Ruhmer]] born. Ruhmer will invent 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. | | File:Ernst_Ruhmer,_Technical_World_cover_(1905).jpg|link=Ernst Ruhmer (nonfiction)|1878: Physicist [[Ernst Ruhmer (nonfiction)|Ernst Ruhmer]] born. Ruhmer will invent 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. |
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| ||1883: Vladimir Onufrievich Kovalevsky dies ... academic and paleontologist. Pic.
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| ||1885: Emory Leon Chaffee born ... physicist and a former professor at Harvard University from 1911 to 1953. Pic.
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| ||1890: Eugène-Melchior Péligot dies ... chemist who isolated the first sample of uranium metal in 1841. Pic.
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| ||1892: Corrie ten Boom born ... clocksmith Nazi resister, and author. Same DOB/DOD. Pic.
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| ||1896: Nikolay Semyonov born ... physicist and chemist, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic.
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| File:Johannes Bosscha.jpg|link=Johannes Bosscha (nonfiction)|1911: Physicist [[Johannes Bosscha (nonfiction)|Johannes Bosscha Jr.]] dies. Bosscha made important investigations on galvanic polarization and the rapidity of sound waves; he was one of the first (1855) to suggest the possibility of sending two messages simultaneously over the same wire. | | File:Johannes Bosscha.jpg|link=Johannes Bosscha (nonfiction)|1911: Physicist [[Johannes Bosscha (nonfiction)|Johannes Bosscha Jr.]] dies. Bosscha made important investigations on galvanic polarization and the rapidity of sound waves; he was one of the first (1855) to suggest the possibility of sending two messages simultaneously over the same wire. |
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| ||1921: Cosmonaut Georgy Beregovoy cosmonaut born ... will command space mission Soyuz 3 in 1968. At the time of his flight, Beregovoy was 47 years of age: he was the earliest-born human to go to orbit, being born three months and three days earlier than the second earliest-born man in orbit – John Glenn, but later than X-15 pilot Joe Walker who made 2 (or 3, according to USAF definition) suborbital space flights. Pic (postage stamp).
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| ||1922: Victor Lvovich Talrose born ... Russian scientist and mass spectrometrist ... the "Father of Russian Mass Spectrometry". Pic.
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| ||1922: U.S. Senator John B. Kendrick of Wyoming introduces a resolution calling for an investigation of a secret land deal, which leads to the discovery of the Teapot Dome scandal.
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| File:Charles Lindbergh.jpg|link=File:Charles Lindbergh.jpg|1926: Aviator [[Charles Lindbergh (nonfiction)|Charles Lindbergh]] opens service on the newly designated 278-mile (447 km) Contract Air Mail Route #2 (CAM-2) to provide service between St. Louis and Chicago (Maywood Field) with two intermediate stops in Springfield and Peoria, Illinois.
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| ||1927: Robert Mills born ... physicist and academic. Pic search.
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| ||1929: Thomas Brooke Benjamin born ... mathematical physicist and mathematician, best known for his work in mathematical analysis and fluid mechanics, especially in applications of nonlinear differential equations. Pic.
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| ||1952: Alexander Crichton Mitchell dies ... physicist with a special interest in geomagnetics who worked for many years in India as a professor and head of a meteorological observatory before returning to Scotland. He then worked with the Royal Navy to devise a system, known as an anti-submarine indicator loop, for detecting submarines by detecting currents induced in a loop of wire on the sea floor. Pic: http://indicatorloops.com/mitchell.htm
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| File:Vera_Faddeeva.jpg|link=Vera Faddeeva (nonfiction)|1983: Mathematician [[Vera Faddeeva (nonfiction)|Vera Faddeeva]] dies. Faddeeva pioneered the field of linear algebra; her ''Computational Methods of Linear Algebra'' (1950) was widely acclaimed.
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| ||1983: Corrie ten Boom dies ... clocksmith Nazi resister, and author. Same DOB/DOD. Pic.
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| ||1984: Grete (Henry-)Hermann dies ... mathematician and philosopher noted for her work in mathematics, physics, philosophy and education. She is noted for her early philosophical work on the foundations of quantum mechanics, and is now known most of all for an early, but long-ignored refutation of a no-hidden-variable theorem by John von Neumann. Pic.
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| ||1992: Hans Maass dies ... mathematician who introduced Maass wave forms (Maass 1949) and Koecher–Maass series (Maass 1950) and Maass–Selberg relations and who proved most of the Saito–Kurokawa conjecture. Pic.
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| ||1992: Otis Barton dies ... diver, engineer, and actor, designed the bathysphere. Pic (cool).
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| ||1993: John Tuzo Wilson dies ... geophysicist and geologist. Pic.
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| ||2009: László Tisza dies ... physicist and academic ... initiated the two-fluid theory of liquid helium. Pic.
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| ||2013: Benjamin Fain dies ... physicist and academic. Pic.
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| File:John_Houbolt_(1962).jpg|link=John Houbolt (nonfiction)|2014: Engineer and academic [[John Houbolt (nonfiction)|John Houbolt]] dies. Houbolt promoted the lunar orbit rendezvous (LOR) mission mode for space travel, a concept that was used to successfully land humans on the Moon and return them to Earth.
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| ||2018: George Oster dies ... mathematical biologist. No pic Wikipedia. See http://news.berkeley.edu/2018/04/20/george-oster-pioneer-in-applying-mathematics-to-biology-dies-at-77/
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| ||2018: Heinz-Dieter Zeh dies ... a professor (later professor emeritus) of the University of Heidelberg and theoretical physicist. He was one of the developers of the many-minds interpretation of quantum mechanics and the discoverer of decoherence, first described in his seminal 1970 paper. Pic: https://scilogs.spektrum.de/das-zauberwort/der-alte-mann-und-das-multiversum-ein-nachruf-auf-h-dieter-zeh/
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