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||1533 – Jacopo Zabarella, Italian philosopher and logician (d. 1589)
||1533: Jacopo Zabarella born ... philosopher and logician.


|File:Canterbury_scrying_engine.jpg|link=Canterbury scrying engine|1534: [[Canterbury scrying engine]] predicts birth of mathematician [[Federico Commandino (nonfiction)|Federico Commandino]].
|File:Canterbury_scrying_engine.jpg|link=Canterbury scrying engine|1534: [[Canterbury scrying engine]] predicts birth of mathematician [[Federico Commandino (nonfiction)|Federico Commandino]].
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File:Henry Oldenburg.jpg|link=Henry Oldenburg (nonfiction)|1677: Theologian, natural philosopher, and diplomat [[Henry Oldenburg (nonfiction)|Henry Oldenburg]] dies. He was one of the foremost intelligencers of Europe of the seventeenth century, and the creator of scientific peer review.  
File:Henry Oldenburg.jpg|link=Henry Oldenburg (nonfiction)|1677: Theologian, natural philosopher, and diplomat [[Henry Oldenburg (nonfiction)|Henry Oldenburg]] dies. He was one of the foremost intelligencers of Europe of the seventeenth century, and the creator of scientific peer review.  


||1667 – Giovanni Girolamo Saccheri, Italian priest, mathematician, and philosopher (d. 1733). Pic.
||1667: Giovanni Girolamo Saccheri born ... priest, mathematician, and philosopher. Pic.


File:Jean-Étienne Montucla.jpg|link=Jean-Étienne Montucla (nonfiction)|1725: Mathematician and theorist [[Jean-Étienne Montucla (nonfiction)|Jean-Étienne Montucla]] born. His deep interest in history of mathematics will become apparent with his publication of ''Histoire des Mathématiques'', the first part appearing in 1758.
File:Jean-Étienne Montucla.jpg|link=Jean-Étienne Montucla (nonfiction)|1725: Mathematician and theorist [[Jean-Étienne Montucla (nonfiction)|Jean-Étienne Montucla]] born. His deep interest in history of mathematics will become apparent with his publication of ''Histoire des Mathématiques'', the first part appearing in 1758.


||1787 – François Sulpice Beudant, French mineralogist and geologist (d. 1850)
||1787: François Sulpice Beudant born ... mineralogist and geologist.


||1798 – Conscription is made mandatory in France by the Jourdan law.
||1798: Conscription is made mandatory in France by the Jourdan law.


||1792 – Ours-Pierre-Armand Petit-Dufrénoy, French geologist and mineralogist (d. 1857)
||1792: Ours-Pierre-Armand Petit-Dufrénoy born ... geologist and mineralogist.


||1847 – Jesse James, American outlaw (d. 1882)
||1847: Jesse James born ... outlaw.


||Eugen Goldstein (b. 5 September 1850) was a German physicist. He was an early investigator of discharge tubes, the discoverer of anode rays, and is sometimes credited with the discovery of the proton.
||1850: Eugen Goldstein born ... physicist. He was an early investigator of discharge tubes, the discoverer of anode rays, and is sometimes credited with the discovery of the proton.


||Robert von Lieben (b. September 5, 1878) was a notable Austrian physicist. Pic.
||1878: Robert von Lieben born ... physicist. Pic.


||1902 – Rudolf Virchow, German anthropologist, pathologist, and biologist (b. 1821)
||1902: Rudolf Virchow dies ... anthropologist, pathologist, and biologist.


||1906 – Ludwig Boltzmann, Austrian physicist and philosopher (b. 1844) Ludwig Eduard Boltzmann (February 20, 1844 – September 5, 1906) was an Austrian physicist and philosopher whose greatest achievement was in the development of statistical mechanics, which explains and predicts how the properties of atoms (such as mass, charge, and structure) determine the physical properties of matter (such as viscosity, thermal conductivity, and diffusion).
||1906: Ludwig Boltzmann dies ... physicist and philosopher ... development of statistical mechanics, which explains and predicts how the properties of atoms (such as mass, charge, and structure) determine the physical properties of matter (such as viscosity, thermal conductivity, and diffusion).


||Edoardo Amaldi (b. 5 September 1908) was an Italian physicist. Pic.
||1908: Edoardo Amaldi born ... physicist. Pic.


||1914 – Nicanor Parra, Chilean physicist, mathematician, and poet
||1914: Nicanor Parra born ... physicist, mathematician, and poet.


||1917 – Marian Smoluchowski, Austrian-Polish physicist and mountaineer (b. 1872)
||1917: Marian Smoluchowski dies ... physicist and mountaineer.


||1922 – Denys Wilkinson, English physicist and academic
||1922: Denys Wilkinson born ... physicist and academic.


||1945 – Cold War: Igor Gouzenko, a Soviet Union embassy clerk, defects to Canada, exposing Soviet espionage in North America, signalling the beginning of the Cold War.
||1945: Cold War: Igor Gouzenko, a Soviet Union embassy clerk, defects to Canada, exposing Soviet espionage in North America, signalling the beginning of the Cold War.


||1946 – Freddie Mercury, Tanzanian-English singer-songwriter and producer (d. 1991)
||1945: The ZEEP (Zero Energy Experimental Pile) reactor was a nuclear reactor built at the Chalk River Laboratories near Chalk River, Ontario, Canada (which superseded the Montreal Laboratory for nuclear research in Canada). ZEEP first went critical at 15:45 on September 5, 1945.
 
||1946: Freddie Mercury born ... singer-songwriter and producer.


File:Bernoulli_wappen.png|link=Bernoulli family (nonfiction)|1947: Advances in [[Cellular automaton (nonfiction)|dynastic cellular automata theory]] reveal new members of [[Bernoulli family (nonfiction)|Bernoulli family]].
File:Bernoulli_wappen.png|link=Bernoulli family (nonfiction)|1947: Advances in [[Cellular automaton (nonfiction)|dynastic cellular automata theory]] reveal new members of [[Bernoulli family (nonfiction)|Bernoulli family]].
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File:Voyager spacecraft diagram.png|link=Voyager 1 (nonfiction)|1977: [[Voyager 1 (nonfiction)|Voyager 1]] spacecraft launches.  It will visit Jupiter, Saturn, and Saturn's large moon Titan.
File:Voyager spacecraft diagram.png|link=Voyager 1 (nonfiction)|1977: [[Voyager 1 (nonfiction)|Voyager 1]] spacecraft launches.  It will visit Jupiter, Saturn, and Saturn's large moon Titan.


||Edwin Ford Beckenbach (d. 5 September 1982) was an American mathematician.
||1982: Edwin Ford Beckenbach dies ... mathematician.


||1994 – Shimshon Amitsur, Israeli mathematician and scholar (b. 1921)
||1994: Shimshon Amitsur dies ... mathematician and scholar.


||2002 – David Todd Wilkinson, American cosmologist and astronomer (b. 1935) David Todd Wilkinson (13 May 1935 – 5 September 2002)[1] was a world-renowned pioneer in the field of cosmology, specializing in the study of the cosmic microwave background radiation (CMB) left over from the Big Bang.
||2002: David Todd Wilkinson dies ... cosmologist and astronomer ... specializing in the study of the cosmic microwave background radiation (CMB) left over from the Big Bang.


||Philip McCord Morse (d. 5 September 1985), was an American physicist, administrator and pioneer of operations research (OR) in World War II. He is considered to be the father of operations research in the U.S.
||1985: Philip McCord Morse dies ... physicist, administrator and pioneer of operations research (OR) in World War II. He is considered to be the father of operations research in the U.S.


||2014 – Mara Neusel, German mathematician, author, and academic (b. 1964)
||2014: Mara Neusel dies ... mathematician, author, and academic.


File:Six Seconds to Hell.jpg|link=Six Seconds to Hell|2017: Art thieves steal ''[[Six Seconds to Hell]]'', demand million-dollar ransom.  
File:Six Seconds to Hell.jpg|link=Six Seconds to Hell|2017: Art thieves steal ''[[Six Seconds to Hell]]'', demand million-dollar ransom.  


||Nicolaas "Nico" Bloembergen (d. September 5, 2017) was a Dutch-American physicist and Nobel laureate, recognized for his work in developing driving principles behind nonlinear optics for laser spectroscopy. During his career, he was a professor at both Harvard University and later at the University of Arizona. Bloembergen shared the 1981 Nobel Prize in Physics with Arthur Schawlow, along with Kai Siegbahn for his laser spectroscopy work.
||2017: Nicolaas "Nico" Bloembergen dies ... physicist and Nobel laureate, recognized for his work in developing driving principles behind nonlinear optics for laser spectroscopy. During his career, he was a professor at both Harvard University and later at the University of Arizona. Bloembergen shared the 1981 Nobel Prize in Physics with Arthur Schawlow, along with Kai Siegbahn for his laser spectroscopy work.


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  • 1575: Mathematician Federico Commandino born. He will gain fame for his central role as translator of works of ancient mathematicians.

    1575: Mathematician Federico Commandino born. He will gain fame for his central role as translator of works of ancient mathematicians.

  • 1588: Astronomer, physicist, engineer, philosopher, mathematician, and crime-fighter Galileo Galilei uses Gnomon algorithm techniques to locate alleged supervillain Anarchimedes.

    1588: Astronomer, physicist, engineer, philosopher, mathematician, and crime-fighter Galileo Galilei uses Gnomon algorithm techniques to locate alleged supervillain Anarchimedes.

  • 1677: Theologian, natural philosopher, and diplomat Henry Oldenburg dies. He was one of the foremost intelligencers of Europe of the seventeenth century, and the creator of scientific peer review.

    1677: Theologian, natural philosopher, and diplomat Henry Oldenburg dies. He was one of the foremost intelligencers of Europe of the seventeenth century, and the creator of scientific peer review.

  • 1725: Mathematician and theorist Jean-Étienne Montucla born. His deep interest in history of mathematics will become apparent with his publication of Histoire des Mathématiques, the first part appearing in 1758.

    1725: Mathematician and theorist Jean-Étienne Montucla born. His deep interest in history of mathematics will become apparent with his publication of Histoire des Mathématiques, the first part appearing in 1758.

  • 1947: Advances in dynastic cellular automata theory reveal new members of Bernoulli family.

    1947: Advances in dynastic cellular automata theory reveal new members of Bernoulli family.

  • 1948: Physicist and chemist Richard C. Tolman dies. He made important contributions to theoretical cosmology in the years soon after Einstein's discovery of general relativity.

    1948: Physicist and chemist Richard C. Tolman dies. He made important contributions to theoretical cosmology in the years soon after Einstein's discovery of general relativity.

  • 1948: Mathematician and crime-fighter Alice Beta publishes new class of Gnomon algorithm functions which detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.

    1948: Mathematician and crime-fighter Alice Beta publishes new class of Gnomon algorithm functions which detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.

  • 1977: Voyager 1 spacecraft launches. It will visit Jupiter, Saturn, and Saturn's large moon Titan.

    1977: Voyager 1 spacecraft launches. It will visit Jupiter, Saturn, and Saturn's large moon Titan.

  • 2017: Art thieves steal Six Seconds to Hell, demand million-dollar ransom.

    2017: Art thieves steal Six Seconds to Hell, demand million-dollar ransom.

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