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||1488 – Sebastian Münster, German scholar, cartographer, and cosmographer (d. 1552)
||1488: Sebastian Münster born ... scholar, cartographer, and cosmographer.


||1526 – Rafael Bombelli, Italian mathematician (d. 1572)
||1526: Rafael Bombelli born ... mathematician.


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.
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File:Galileo Galilei.jpg|link=Galileo Galilei|1574: Astronomer, physicist, engineer, philosopher, mathematician, and crime-fighter [[Galileo Galilei]] says that he is "not jealous of [[Simon Marius (nonfiction)|Simon Marius]]' future accomplishments."
File:Galileo Galilei.jpg|link=Galileo Galilei|1574: Astronomer, physicist, engineer, philosopher, mathematician, and crime-fighter [[Galileo Galilei]] says that he is "not jealous of [[Simon Marius (nonfiction)|Simon Marius]]' future accomplishments."


||Giambattista Benedetti (d. January 20, 1590) was an Italian mathematician from Venice who was also interested in physics, mechanics, the construction of sundials, and the science of music. Pic (book cover).
||1580: Giambattista Benedetti dies ... mathematician from Venice who was also interested in physics, mechanics, the construction of sundials, and the science of music. Pic (book cover).


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.
||1831: Edward John Routh dies ... 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 crime-fighter [[David Brewster (nonfiction)|David Brewster]] publishes new class of [[Gnomon algorithm functions]] which detect and prevent [[crimes against physics]].
File:David Brewster.jpg|link=David Brewster (nonfiction)|1840: Physicist, mathematician, astronomer, inventor, and crime-fighter [[David Brewster (nonfiction)|David Brewster]] publishes new class of [[Gnomon algorithm functions]] which detect and prevent [[crimes against physics]].
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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.


||Giulio Ascoli (b. 20 January 1843) was an Italian mathematician.
||1843: Giulio Ascoli born ... mathematician.


||1882 – Johnny Torrio, Italian-American mob boss (d. 1957)
||1882: Johnny Torrio born ... mob boss.


||1883 – Enoch L. Johnson, American mob boss (d. 1968)
||1883: Enoch L. Johnson born ... mob boss.


||1889 – Allan Haines Loughead, American engineer and businessman, founded the Alco Hydro-Aeroplane Company (d. 1969)
||1889: Allan Haines Loughead born ... engineer and businessman, founded the Alco Hydro-Aeroplane Company.


|File:Das Gespenst eines Flohs.jpg|link=Monster (nonfiction)|1889: [[Monster (nonfiction)|monster]] appear onstage at Madison Square Garden.
||1895: Gábor Szegő born ... mathematician and academic. Pic: http://www-history.mcs.st-and.ac.uk/PictDisplay/Szego.html
 
||1895 – Gábor Szegő, Hungarian mathematician and academic (d. 1985) Nopic


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]].


||1899 – Kenjiro Takayanagi, Japanese engineer (d. 1990) TV
||1899: Kenjiro Takayanagi born ...  engineer ... 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.


||Renato Caccioppoli (b. 20 January 1904) was an Italian mathematician, known for his contributions to mathematical analysis, including the theory of functions of several complex variables, functional analysis, measure theory. Pic.
||1904: Renato Caccioppoli born ... mathematician, known for his contributions to mathematical analysis, including the theory of functions of several complex variables, functional analysis, measure theory. Pic.
 
||1918 – Nevin Scrimshaw, American scientist (d. 2013) Nopic


||Edwin Hewitt (b. January 20, 1920) was an American mathematician known for his work in abstract harmonic analysis and for his discovery, in collaboration with Leonard Jimmie Savage, of the Hewitt–Savage zero–one law.
||1918: Nevin Scrimshaw born ... scientist. Nopic


||1921 – Mary Watson Whitney, American astronomer and academic (b. 1847)
||1920: Edwin Hewitt born ... mathematician known for his work in abstract harmonic analysis and for his discovery, in collaboration with Leonard Jimmie Savage, of the Hewitt–Savage zero–one law.


||Max Koecher (b. 20 January 1924) was a German mathematician.
||1921: Mary Watson Whitney dies ... 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.
||1924: Max Koecher born ... mathematician.


File:Atlas-B rocket with SCORE payload.jpg|link=SCORE (satellite) (nonfiction)|1959: [[SCORE (satellite) (nonfiction)|Project SCORE satellite]] makes contact with orbital artificial intelligence [[AESOP]].
File:Atlas-B rocket with SCORE payload.jpg|link=SCORE (satellite) (nonfiction)|1959: [[SCORE (satellite) (nonfiction)|Project SCORE satellite]] makes contact with orbital artificial intelligence [[AESOP]].


||Jan Arnoldus Schouten (d. 20 January 1971) was a Dutch mathematician and Professor at the Delft University of Technology. He was an important contributor to the development of tensor calculus and Ricci calculus. Pic.
||1971: Jan Arnoldus Schouten dies ... mathematician and Professor at the Delft University of Technology. He was an important contributor to the development of tensor calculus and Ricci calculus. Pic.


||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.
||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]].
||2001: Crispin St. John Alvah Nash-Williams dies ... mathematician. His research interest was in the field of discrete mathematics, especially graph theory. Pic: http://www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Nash-Williams.html


||Anatol Rapoport (d. January 20, 2007) was a Russian-born American mathematical psychologist. He contributed to the mathematical modeling of social interaction and stochastic models of contagion. Pic.
||2007: Anatol Rapoport dies mathematical psychologist. He contributed to the mathematical modeling of social interaction and stochastic models of contagion. Pic.


File:Bernoulli_wappen.png|link=Bernoulli family (nonfiction)|2016: New members of [[Bernoulli family (nonfiction)|Bernoulli family]] unexpectedly discovered during routine upgrade to [[Cellular automaton (nonfiction)|dynastic cellular automata]].
File:Bernoulli_wappen.png|link=Bernoulli family (nonfiction)|2016: New members of [[Bernoulli family (nonfiction)|Bernoulli family]] unexpectedly discovered during routine upgrade to [[Cellular automaton (nonfiction)|dynastic cellular automata]].
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