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File:Delmedigo.jpg|link=Joseph Solomon Delmedigo (nonfiction)|1655: Physician, mathematician, and theorist [[Joseph Solomon Delmedigo (nonfiction)|Joseph Solomon Delmedigo]] dies. His ''Elim'' (Palms) deals with astronomy, physics, mathematics, medicine, metaphysics, and music theory.
File:Delmedigo.jpg|link=Joseph Solomon Delmedigo (nonfiction)|1655: Physician, mathematician, and theorist [[Joseph Solomon Delmedigo (nonfiction)|Joseph Solomon Delmedigo]] dies. His ''Elim'' (Palms) deals with astronomy, physics, mathematics, medicine, metaphysics, and music theory.


||1758 – Noah Webster, American lexicographer (d. 1843)
||1758: Noah Webster born ... lexicographer.


||Alexander Wilson FRSE (d. 16 October 1786) was a Scottish surgeon, type-founder, astronomer, mathematician and meteorologist. He was the first scientist to record the use of kites in meteorological investigations.
||1786: Alexander Wilson dies ... surgeon, type-founder, astronomer, mathematician and meteorologist. He was the first scientist to record the use of kites in meteorological investigations.


||1793 – John Hunter, Scottish-English surgeon and philosopher (b. 1728)
||1793: John Hunter dies ... surgeon and philosopher.


||Robert Stephenson FRS (b. 16 October 1803) was an early railway and civil engineer. The only son of [[George Stephenson (nonfiction)|George Stephenson]], the "Father of Railways", he built on the achievements of his father. Robert has been called the greatest engineer of the 19th century.
File:Carl Friedrich Gauss 1840 by Jensen.jpg|link=Carl Friedrich Gauss (nonfiction)|1797: [[Carl Friedrich Gauss (nonfiction)|Carl Friedrich Gauss]] records in his diary that he has discovered a new proof of the Pythagorean Theorem.
 
||1804: Robert Stephenson born ... railway and civil engineer. The only son of [[George Stephenson (nonfiction)|George Stephenson]], the "Father of Railways", he built on the achievements of his father. Robert has been called the greatest engineer of the 19th century.


File:William Rowan Hamilton.png|link=William Rowan Hamilton (nonfiction)|1843: Sir [[William Rowan Hamilton (nonfiction)|William Rowan Hamilton]] comes up with the idea of quaternions, a non-commutative extension of complex numbers.
File:William Rowan Hamilton.png|link=William Rowan Hamilton (nonfiction)|1843: Sir [[William Rowan Hamilton (nonfiction)|William Rowan Hamilton]] comes up with the idea of quaternions, a non-commutative extension of complex numbers.


||1846 – William T. G. Morton first demonstrated ether anesthesia at the Massachusetts General Hospital in the Ether Dome.
||1846: William T. G. Morton first demonstrated ether anesthesia at the Massachusetts General Hospital in the Ether Dome.


File:Gustav Robert Kirchhoff.jpg|link=Gustav Kirchhoff (nonfiction)|1868: Physicist and crime-fighter [[Gustav Kirchhoff (nonfiction)|Gustav Kirchhoff]] uses the emission of black-body radiation by heated objects to detect and prevent [[crimes against physical constants]].
File:Gustav Robert Kirchhoff.jpg|link=Gustav Kirchhoff (nonfiction)|1868: Physicist and crime-fighter [[Gustav Kirchhoff (nonfiction)|Gustav Kirchhoff]] uses the emission of black-body radiation by heated objects to detect and prevent [[crimes against physical constants]].


||1869 – The Cardiff Giant, one of the most famous American hoaxes, is "discovered".
||1869: The Cardiff Giant, one of the most famous American hoaxes, is "discovered".


||Lieutenant-Colonel Frederick John Marrian Stratton(b. 16 October 1881) was a British astrophysicist, Professor of Astrophysics at the University of Cambridge from 1928 to 1947 and a decorated British Army officer. Cool pic.
||1881: Frederick Stratton born ... astrophysicist, Professor of Astrophysics at the University of Cambridge from 1928 to 1947 and a decorated British Army officer. Cool pic.


||1918 – Abraham Nemeth, American mathematician and academic (d. 2013)
||1918: Abraham Nemeth born ... mathematician and academic.


||Dr. Cyril Andrew Ponnamperuma (b. 16 October 1923) was a Sri Lankan scientist in the fields of chemical evolution and the origin of life.
||1923: Cyril Andrew Ponnamperuma born ... scientist in the fields of chemical evolution and the origin of life.


||1925: Mór Réthy (or Moritz Réthy) dies - mathematician.
||1925: Mór Réthy (or Moritz Réthy) dies - mathematician.

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