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||1488 – Sebastian Münster, German scholar, cartographer, and cosmographer (d. 1552)
||1526 – Rafael Bombelli, Italian mathematician (d. 1572)
File:Simon Marius.jpg|link=Simon Marius (nonfiction)|1573: Astronomer [[Simon Marius (nonfiction)|Simon Marius]] born.  He will discover the four largest moons of Jupiter, independently of Galileo Galilei.
File:Simon Marius.jpg|link=Simon Marius (nonfiction)|1573: Astronomer [[Simon Marius (nonfiction)|Simon Marius]] born.  He will discover the four largest moons of Jupiter, independently of Galileo Galilei.


File:André-Marie_Ampère.jpg|link=André-Marie Ampère (nonfiction)|1775: Physicist and mathematician [[André-Marie Ampère (nonfiction)|André-Marie Ampère]] born. He will be one of the founders of the science of classical electromagnetism, which he will referr to as "electrodynamics".
File:André-Marie_Ampère.jpg|link=André-Marie Ampère (nonfiction)|1775: Physicist and mathematician [[André-Marie Ampère (nonfiction)|André-Marie Ampère]] born. He will be one of the founders of the science of classical electromagnetism, which he will referr to as "electrodynamics".
||Edward John Routh FRS (b. 20 January 1831), was an English mathematician, noted as the outstanding coach of students preparing for the Mathematical Tripos examination of the University of Cambridge in its heyday in the middle of the nineteenth century. He also did much to systematise the mathematical theory of mechanics and created several ideas critical to the development of modern control systems theory.


File:David Brewster.jpg|link=David Brewster (nonfiction)|1840: Physicist, mathematician, astronomer, inventor, and writer [[David Brewster (nonfiction)|David Brewster]] invents new class of [[Gnomon algorithm functions]].
File:David Brewster.jpg|link=David Brewster (nonfiction)|1840: Physicist, mathematician, astronomer, inventor, and writer [[David Brewster (nonfiction)|David Brewster]] invents new class of [[Gnomon algorithm functions]].


File:Jørgen Jørgensen (Eckersberg).jpg|link=Jørgen Jørgensen (nonfiction)|1841: Adventurer [[Jørgen Jørgensen (nonfiction)|Jørgen Jørgensen]] dies. He sailed to Iceland, declaring the country independent from Denmark and pronouncing himself its ruler, intending to found a new republic following the United States of America and France.
File:Jørgen Jørgensen (Eckersberg).jpg|link=Jørgen Jørgensen (nonfiction)|1841: Adventurer [[Jørgen Jørgensen (nonfiction)|Jørgen Jørgensen]] dies. He sailed to Iceland, declaring the country independent from Denmark and pronouncing himself its ruler, intending to found a new republic following the United States of America and France.
||1882 – Johnny Torrio, Italian-American mob boss (d. 1957)
||1883 – Enoch L. Johnson, American mob boss (d. 1968)
||1889 – Allan Haines Loughead, American engineer and businessman, founded the Alco Hydro-Aeroplane Company (d. 1969)
|File:Das Gespenst eines Flohs.jpg|link=Monster (nonfiction)|1889: [[Monster (nonfiction)|monster]] appear onstage at Madison Square Garden.
||1895 – Gábor Szegő, Hungarian mathematician and academic (d. 1985)


File:Elisha Gray.jpg|link=|1898: Electrical engineer [[Elisha Gray (nonfiction)|Elisha Gray]] uses his "telephote" technology to detect and prevent [[crimes against mathematical constants]].
File:Elisha Gray.jpg|link=|1898: Electrical engineer [[Elisha Gray (nonfiction)|Elisha Gray]] uses his "telephote" technology to detect and prevent [[crimes against mathematical constants]].


|File:Das Gespenst eines Flohs.jpg|link=Monster (nonfiction)|1889: [[Monster (nonfiction)|monster]] appear onstage at Madison Square Garden.
||1899 – Kenjiro Takayanagi, Japanese engineer (d. 1990) TV


File:Zénobe Gramme 1893.jpg|link=Zénobe Gramme (nonfiction)|1901: Electrical engineer [[Zénobe Gramme (nonfiction)|Zénobe Gramme]] dies. He invented the first usefully powerful electric motor.
File:Zénobe Gramme 1893.jpg|link=Zénobe Gramme (nonfiction)|1901: Electrical engineer [[Zénobe Gramme (nonfiction)|Zénobe Gramme]] dies. He invented the first usefully powerful electric motor.
||1918 – Nevin Scrimshaw, American scientist (d. 2013)
||1921 – Mary Watson Whitney, American astronomer and academic (b. 1847)


File:Carnivorous_airships_circa_1930-31.jpg|link=Carnivorous dirigible|1933: [[Carnivorous dirigible|Carnivorous dirigibles]] break their tethers, eat park ranger.
File:Carnivorous_airships_circa_1930-31.jpg|link=Carnivorous dirigible|1933: [[Carnivorous dirigible|Carnivorous dirigibles]] break their tethers, eat park ranger.
||1972 – Pakistan launched its nuclear weapons program, a few weeks after its defeat in the Bangladesh Liberation War, as well as the Indo-Pakistani War of 1971.


File:IF-THEN-ELSE-END flowchart.svg.png|link=Artificial intelligence (nonfiction)|1997: New theory of [[Artificial intelligence (nonfiction)|artificial intelligence]] accidentally release massive wave of [[Kingpin inclination]].
File:IF-THEN-ELSE-END flowchart.svg.png|link=Artificial intelligence (nonfiction)|1997: New theory of [[Artificial intelligence (nonfiction)|artificial intelligence]] accidentally release massive wave of [[Kingpin inclination]].

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