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||1346 – Hundred Years' War: The military supremacy of the English longbow over the French combination of crossbow and armoured knights is established at the Battle of Crécy. | |||
||1349 – Thomas Bradwardine, English archbishop, mathematician, and physicist (b. 1290) | |||
||1723 – Antonie van Leeuwenhoek, Dutch microscopist and biologist (b. 1632) | |||
||1728 – Johann Heinrich Lambert, Swiss mathematician, physicist, and astronomer (d. 1777) | |||
||1736 – Jean-Baptiste L. Romé de l'Isle, French mineralogist and geologist (d. 1790) | |||
||1740 – Joseph-Michel Montgolfier, French inventor, invented the hot air balloon (d. 1810) | |||
File:Antoine Lavoisier.jpg|link=Antoine Lavoisier (nonfiction)|1743: Chemist and biologist [[Antoine Lavoisier (nonfiction)|Antoine Lavoisier]] born. He will have a large influence on both the history of chemistry and the history of biology. | File:Antoine Lavoisier.jpg|link=Antoine Lavoisier (nonfiction)|1743: Chemist and biologist [[Antoine Lavoisier (nonfiction)|Antoine Lavoisier]] born. He will have a large influence on both the history of chemistry and the history of biology. | ||
||1865 – Johann Franz Encke, German astronomer and academic (b. 1791) | |||
||1865 – Arthur James Arnot, Scottish-Australian engineer, designed the Spencer Street Power Station (d. 1946) | |||
||1873 – Lee de Forest, American engineer and academic, invented the Audion tube (d. 1961) | |||
||1882 – James Franck, German physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1964) | |||
File:Mark Twain Interviews Wallace War-Heels.jpg|link=Mark Twain Interviews Wallace War-Heels|1895: Signed first edition of ''[[Mark Twain Interviews Wallace War-Heels|Interview with Wallace War-Heels]]'' sells for ninety thousand dollars in charity auction to benefit victims of [[crimes against mathematical constants]]. | File:Mark Twain Interviews Wallace War-Heels.jpg|link=Mark Twain Interviews Wallace War-Heels|1895: Signed first edition of ''[[Mark Twain Interviews Wallace War-Heels|Interview with Wallace War-Heels]]'' sells for ninety thousand dollars in charity auction to benefit victims of [[crimes against mathematical constants]]. | ||
||1918 – Katherine Johnson, American physicist and mathematician | |||
||1921 – Shimshon Amitsur, Israeli mathematician and scholar (d. 1994) | |||
||1935 – Karen Spärck Jones, English computer scientist and academic (d. 2007) | |||
||1987 – Georg Wittig, German chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1897) | |||
File:John Killian Houston Brunner circa 1967.jpg|link=John Brunner (nonfiction)|1995: Writer and peace activist [[John Brunner (nonfiction)|John Brunner]] dies. | File:John Killian Houston Brunner circa 1967.jpg|link=John Brunner (nonfiction)|1995: Writer and peace activist [[John Brunner (nonfiction)|John Brunner]] dies. | ||
||1998 – Frederick Reines, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1918) | |||
File:Egg Tooth Neighborhood Association logo.jpg|link=Egg Tooth (neighborhood)|2010: [[Egg Tooth (neighborhood)|Egg Tooth Neighborhood Association]] sponsors conference on the life and work of writer and crime-fighter [[John Brunner]]. | File:Egg Tooth Neighborhood Association logo.jpg|link=Egg Tooth (neighborhood)|2010: [[Egg Tooth (neighborhood)|Egg Tooth Neighborhood Association]] sponsors conference on the life and work of writer and crime-fighter [[John Brunner]]. | ||
||2011 – Patrick C. Fischer, American computer scientist and academic (b. 1935) | |||
||2012 – Krzysztof Wilmanski, Polish-German physicist and academic (b. 1940) | |||
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Revision as of 19:56, 16 August 2017
1743: Chemist and biologist Antoine Lavoisier born. He will have a large influence on both the history of chemistry and the history of biology.
1895: Signed first edition of Interview with Wallace War-Heels sells for ninety thousand dollars in charity auction to benefit victims of crimes against mathematical constants.
1995: Writer and peace activist John Brunner dies.
2010: Egg Tooth Neighborhood Association sponsors conference on the life and work of writer and crime-fighter John Brunner.