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1522: Mathematician Johannes Stöffler uses Gnomon algorithm functions to predict and prevent Crimes against mathematical constants.
1591: Physician, mathematician, and theorist Joseph Solomon Delmedigo born. He will write Elim (Palms), dealing astronomy, physics, mathematics, medicine, metaphysics, and music theory.
1806: Physician, scientist, and inventor Edward Davy born. He will play a prominent role in the development of telegraphy, and invent an electric relay.
1839: Mathematician Julius Petersen born. His famous paper Die Theorie der regulären graphs will be a fundamental contribution to modern graph theory.
1915: Mathematician and academic John Tukey born. He will make important contributions to statistical analysis, including the box plot.

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 ||1904 – Irish author James Joyce begins a relationship with Nora Barnacle and subsequently uses the date to set the actions for his novel Ulysses; this date is now traditionally called "Bloomsday".
-|1911 – Computing company IBM was founded as the Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company.
+||Julius Weingarten (d. 16 June 1910) was a German mathematician. He made some important contributions to the differential geometry of surfaces, such as the Weingarten equations. Pic.
+||1911 – Computing company IBM was founded as the Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company.
 John_Tukey.jpg|link=John Tukey (nonfiction)|1915: Mathematician and academic [[John Tukey (nonfiction)|John Tukey]] born. He will make important contributions to statistical analysis, including the box plot.