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||1469: Niccolò Machiavelli born ... historian and philosopher. Pic.
||1695: Henri Pitot born ... physicist and engineer, invented the Pitot tube. Pic search.
File:Francesco_Algarotti_-_by_Jean-Étienne_Liotard_(1745).jpg|link=Francesco Algarotti (nonfiction)|1764: Venetian polymath and art collector [[Francesco Algarotti (nonfiction)|Francesco Algarotti]] dies. Algarotti's broad knowledge included expertise in Newtonianism, architecture, and music; and he was a friend of most of the leading authors of his times. Pic.
File:Francesco_Algarotti_-_by_Jean-Étienne_Liotard_(1745).jpg|link=Francesco Algarotti (nonfiction)|1764: Venetian polymath and art collector [[Francesco Algarotti (nonfiction)|Francesco Algarotti]] dies. Algarotti's broad knowledge included expertise in Newtonianism, architecture, and music; and he was a friend of most of the leading authors of his times. Pic.
||1768: Charles Tennant born ... chemist and businessman. Pic.


File:John Winthrop.jpg|link=John Winthrop (scientist) (nonfiction)|1779: Mathematician, physicist, and astronomer [[John Winthrop (scientist) (nonfiction)|John Winthrop]] dies. He was one of the foremost men of science in America during the 18th century.
File:John Winthrop.jpg|link=John Winthrop (scientist) (nonfiction)|1779: Mathematician, physicist, and astronomer [[John Winthrop (scientist) (nonfiction)|John Winthrop]] dies. He was one of the foremost men of science in America during the 18th century.
||1830: The Canterbury and Whitstable Railway is opened; it is the first steam-hauled passenger railway to issue season tickets and include a tunnel.
||1844: Richard D'Oyly Carte born ... talent agent and composer.
||1855: American adventurer William Walker departs from San Francisco with about 60 men to conquer Nicaragua.


File:Vito Volterra.jpg|link=Vito Volterra (nonfiction)|1860: Mathematician and physicist [[Vito Volterra (nonfiction)|Vito Volterra]] born. He will be one of the founders of functional analysis, making contributions to mathematical biology and integral equations.
File:Vito Volterra.jpg|link=Vito Volterra (nonfiction)|1860: Mathematician and physicist [[Vito Volterra (nonfiction)|Vito Volterra]] born. He will be one of the founders of functional analysis, making contributions to mathematical biology and integral equations.
||1874: Vagn Walfrid Ekman born ... oceanographer and academic ... icebergs tend to drift not in the direction of the prevailing wind but at an angle of 20°-40° to the right. Bjerknes invited Ekman, still a student, to investigate the problem. Later, in 1905, Ekman published his theory of the Ekman spiral which explains the phenomenon in terms of the balance between frictional effects in the ocean and the Coriolis force, which arises from moving objects in a rotating environment, like planetary rotation. Pic.
||1892: George Paget Thomson born ... physicist and academic ... discovered of the wave properties of the electron by electron diffraction. Pic.
||1901: The Great Fire of 1901 begins in Jacksonville, Florida.
||1902: Alfred Kastler born ... physicist and poet, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic.


File:Werner Fenchel.jpg|link=Werner Fenchel (nonfiction)|1905: Mathematician and academic [[Werner Fenchel (nonfiction)|Werner Fenchel]] born. He will establish the basic results of convex analysis and nonlinear optimization theory which will, in time, serve as the foundation for nonlinear programming.
File:Werner Fenchel.jpg|link=Werner Fenchel (nonfiction)|1905: Mathematician and academic [[Werner Fenchel (nonfiction)|Werner Fenchel]] born. He will establish the basic results of convex analysis and nonlinear optimization theory which will, in time, serve as the foundation for nonlinear programming.
||1916: Aryeh Dvoretzky born ... mathematician, the winner of the 1973 Israel Prize in Mathematics. He is best known for his work in functional analysis, statistics and probability. Pic.
||1925: Patrick Paul Billingsley born ... mathematician and stage and screen actor, noted for his books in advanced probability theory and statistics. Pic.


File:Jacques-Louis Lions.jpg|link=Jacques-Louis Lions (nonfiction)|1928: Mathematician [[Jacques-Louis Lions (nonfiction)|Jacques-Louis Lions]] born.  He will make contributions to the theory of partial differential equations and to stochastic control.
File:Jacques-Louis Lions.jpg|link=Jacques-Louis Lions (nonfiction)|1928: Mathematician [[Jacques-Louis Lions (nonfiction)|Jacques-Louis Lions]] born.  He will make contributions to the theory of partial differential equations and to stochastic control.


||1928: Richard Lewis Arnowitt born ... physicist known for his contributions to theoretical particle physics and to general relativity. Pic.
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||1936: Kikunae Ikeda dies ... chemist and Tokyo Imperial University professor of Chemistry who, in 1908, uncovered the chemical basis of a taste he named umami.  Pic.
 
File:Margaret Eliza Maltby circa 1908.jpg|link=Margaret Eliza Maltby (nonfiction)|1944: Physicist [[Margaret Eliza Maltby (nonfiction)|Margaret Eliza Maltby]] dies.  She contributed to the measurement of high electrolytic resistances and conductivity of very dilute solutions. 


||1947: Doug Henning born ... magician. Pic.
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||1977: Maryam Mirzakhani born ... mathematician and a professor of mathematics at Stanford University. Her research topics included Teichmüller theory, hyperbolic geometry, ergodic theory, and symplectic geometry. On 13 August 2014, Mirzakhani was honored with the Fields Medal. Pic.
 
||1978: The first unsolicited bulk commercial email (which would later become known as "spam") is sent by a Digital Equipment Corporation marketing representative to every ARPANET address on the west coast of the United States.
 
||1988: Lev Pontryagin dies ... mathematician and academic. Pic.
 
||1988: Abraham Seidenberg dies ... mathematician. Pic.
 
||2007: Wally Schirra dies ... captain, pilot, and astronaut.
 
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  • 1764: Venetian polymath and art collector Francesco Algarotti dies. Algarotti's broad knowledge included expertise in Newtonianism, architecture, and music; and he was a friend of most of the leading authors of his times. Pic.

    1764: Venetian polymath and art collector Francesco Algarotti dies. Algarotti's broad knowledge included expertise in Newtonianism, architecture, and music; and he was a friend of most of the leading authors of his times. Pic.

  • 1779: Mathematician, physicist, and astronomer John Winthrop dies. He was one of the foremost men of science in America during the 18th century.

    1779: Mathematician, physicist, and astronomer John Winthrop dies. He was one of the foremost men of science in America during the 18th century.

  • 1860: Mathematician and physicist Vito Volterra born. He will be one of the founders of functional analysis, making contributions to mathematical biology and integral equations.

    1860: Mathematician and physicist Vito Volterra born. He will be one of the founders of functional analysis, making contributions to mathematical biology and integral equations.

  • 1905: Mathematician and academic Werner Fenchel born. He will establish the basic results of convex analysis and nonlinear optimization theory which will, in time, serve as the foundation for nonlinear programming.

    1905: Mathematician and academic Werner Fenchel born. He will establish the basic results of convex analysis and nonlinear optimization theory which will, in time, serve as the foundation for nonlinear programming.

  • 1928: Mathematician Jacques-Louis Lions born. He will make contributions to the theory of partial differential equations and to stochastic control.

    1928: Mathematician Jacques-Louis Lions born. He will make contributions to the theory of partial differential equations and to stochastic control.

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