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File:Edward Lear.jpg|link=Edward Lear (nonfiction)|1888: Artist, musician, author, and poet [[Edward Lear (nonfiction)|Edward Lear]] invents record number of witticisms.
 
File:Euclid's algorithm.svg|link=Algorithm (nonfiction)|1889: Council of [[Algorithm (nonfiction)|algorithms]] celebrates the witticisms of [[Edward Lear (nonfiction)|Edward Lear]].
||1796 – Thomas Reid, Scottish mathematician and philosopher (b. 1710)
 
||1798 – Jean-Baptiste Vuillaume, French instrument maker and businessman (d. 1875)
 
||1885 – Niels Bohr, Danish physicist and philosopher, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1962)
 
||1903 – Rudolf Lipschitz, German mathematician and academic (b. 1832)


||1916 – Georgia Tech defeats Cumberland University 222–0 in the most lopsided college football game in American history.
||1916 – Georgia Tech defeats Cumberland University 222–0 in the most lopsided college football game in American history.
||1919 – Henriette Avram, American computer scientist and academic (d. 2006)
||1950 – Willis Haviland Carrier, American engineer (b. 1876)
||1956 – Clarence Birdseye, American businessman, founded Birds Eye (b. 1886)
||1959 – U.S.S.R. probe Luna 3 transmits the first ever photographs of the far side of the Moon.
||1963 – John F. Kennedy signs the ratification of the Partial Nuclear Test Ban Treaty.
File:Nikolay Basov.jpg|link=Nikolay Basov (nonfiction)|1964: Physicist and educator [[Nikolay Basov (nonfiction)|Nikolay Basov]] uses [[Gnomon algorithm functions]] to investigate quantum electronics.  
File:Nikolay Basov.jpg|link=Nikolay Basov (nonfiction)|1964: Physicist and educator [[Nikolay Basov (nonfiction)|Nikolay Basov]] uses [[Gnomon algorithm functions]] to investigate quantum electronics.  
||1995 – Olga Taussky-Todd, Austrian-Czech-American mathematician, attendant of the Vienna Circle (b. 1906)
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