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File:Paolo Sarpi.jpg|link=Paolo Sarpi (nonfiction)|1620: Statesman, scientist, and crime-fighter [[Paolo Sarpi (nonfiction)|Paolo Sarpi]] discovers evidence which clears the name of fellow crime-fighter [[Galileo Galilei]], who had been falsely accused of [[crimes against mathematical constants]].
File:Paolo Sarpi.jpg|link=Paolo Sarpi (nonfiction)|1620: Statesman, scientist, and crime-fighter [[Paolo Sarpi (nonfiction)|Paolo Sarpi]] discovers evidence which clears the name of fellow crime-fighter [[Galileo Galilei]], who had been falsely accused of [[crimes against mathematical constants]].


||1679 – Jacques de Billy, French mathematician and academic (b. 1602)
||1679: Jacques de Billy dies ... mathematician and academic.


||1683 – Gottfried Silbermann, German instrument maker (d. 1753)
||1683: Gottfried Silbermann born ... instrument maker.


||1684 – Johann Matthias Hase, German mathematician, astronomer, and cartographer (d. 1742)
||1684: Johann Matthias Hase born ... mathematician, astronomer, and cartographer.


||1806 – Matthew Fontaine Maury American astronomer, oceanographer, and historian (d. 1873)
||1806: Matthew Fontaine Maury born ... astronomer, oceanographer, and historian.


||Sir James Cockle (b. 14 January 1819) was an English lawyer and mathematician. He invented the number systems of tessarines and coquaternions, and worked with Arthur Cayley on the theory of linear algebra. Pic.
||1819: James Cockle born ... lawyer and mathematician. He invented the number systems of tessarines and coquaternions, and worked with Arthur Cayley on the theory of linear algebra. Pic.


||1858 – Napoleon III of France escapes an assassination attempt.
||1858: Napoleon III of France escapes an assassination attempt.


File:Ingres self-portrait.jpg|link=Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres (nonfiction)|1867: Artist [[Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres (nonfiction)|Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres]] dies. He assumed the role of a guardian of academic orthodoxy against the ascendant Romantic style represented by his nemesis, Eugène Delacroix.
File:Ingres self-portrait.jpg|link=Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres (nonfiction)|1867: Artist [[Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres (nonfiction)|Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres]] dies. He assumed the role of a guardian of academic orthodoxy against the ascendant Romantic style represented by his nemesis, Eugène Delacroix.
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File:Johann Philipp Reis.jpg|link=|1874: Scientist and inventor [[Johann Philipp Reis (nonfiction)|Johann Philipp Reis]] dies. He invented the Reis Telephone.
File:Johann Philipp Reis.jpg|link=|1874: Scientist and inventor [[Johann Philipp Reis (nonfiction)|Johann Philipp Reis]] dies. He invented the Reis Telephone.


||1875 – Albert Schweitzer, French-Gabonese physician and philosopher, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1965)
||1875: Albert Schweitzer born ... physician and philosopher, Nobel Prize laureate.


File:Mathew Brady 1875.jpg|link=Mathew Brady (nonfiction)|1875: Photographer, journalist, and crime-fighter [[Mathew Brady (nonfiction)|Mathew Brady]] demonstrates new type of [[scrying engine]] which detects [[crimes against mathematical constants]].
File:Mathew Brady 1875.jpg|link=Mathew Brady (nonfiction)|1875: Photographer, journalist, and crime-fighter [[Mathew Brady (nonfiction)|Mathew Brady]] demonstrates new type of [[scrying engine]] which detects [[crimes against mathematical constants]].
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File:Charles Hermite circa 1901.jpg|link=Charles Hermite (nonfiction)|1901: Mathematician [[Charles Hermite (nonfiction)|Charles Hermite]] dies. He did research on number theory, quadratic forms, invariant theory, orthogonal polynomials, elliptic functions, and algebra.
File:Charles Hermite circa 1901.jpg|link=Charles Hermite (nonfiction)|1901: Mathematician [[Charles Hermite (nonfiction)|Charles Hermite]] dies. He did research on number theory, quadratic forms, invariant theory, orthogonal polynomials, elliptic functions, and algebra.


||Cato Maximilian Guldberg (d. 14 January 1902) was a Norwegian mathematician and chemist.
||1902: Cato Maximilian Guldberg dies ... mathematician and chemist.


||1905 – Ernst Abbe, German physicist and engineer (b. 1840)
||1905: Ernst Abbe dies ... physicist and engineer.


||Masao Kotani (d. 1906) was a Japanese theoretical physicist, known for molecular physics and biophysics.
||1906: Masao Kotani dies ... theoretical physicist, known for molecular physics and biophysics.


||1937 – Leo Kadanoff, American physicist and academic (d. 2015)
||1934: Paul Marie Eugène Vieille dies ... chemist and the inventor of modern nitrocellulose-based smokeless gunpowder in 1884. Pic.
 
||1937: Leo Kadanoff born ... physicist and academic.


File:Wilhelm Wirtinger.jpg|link=Wilhelm Wirtinger (nonfiction)|1938: Mathematician and crime-fighter [[Wilhelm Wirtinger (nonfiction)|Wilhelm Wirtinger]] publishes new class of [[Gnomon algorithm functions]] based on knot theory which quickly finds applications in the detection and prevention of [[crimes against mathematical constants]].
File:Wilhelm Wirtinger.jpg|link=Wilhelm Wirtinger (nonfiction)|1938: Mathematician and crime-fighter [[Wilhelm Wirtinger (nonfiction)|Wilhelm Wirtinger]] publishes new class of [[Gnomon algorithm functions]] based on knot theory which quickly finds applications in the detection and prevention of [[crimes against mathematical constants]].


||1943 – World War II: Franklin D. Roosevelt becomes the first President of the United States to travel by airplane while in office when he travels from Miami to Morocco to meet with Winston Churchill.
||1943: World War II: Franklin D. Roosevelt becomes the first President of the United States to travel by airplane while in office when he travels from Miami to Morocco to meet with Winston Churchill.


||1966 – Sergei Korolev, Ukrainian-Russian engineer and academic (b. 1906)
||1966: Sergei Korolev dies ... engineer and academic.


||1967 – Counterculture of the 1960s: The Human Be-In takes place in San Francisco, California's Golden Gate Park, launching the Summer of Love.
||1967: Counterculture of the 1960s: The Human Be-In takes place in San Francisco, California's Golden Gate Park, launching the Summer of Love.


||1970 – William Feller, Croatian-American mathematician and academic (b. 1906)
||1970: William Feller, Croatian-American mathematician and academic (b. 1906)


||1973 – Elvis Presley's concert Aloha from Hawaii is broadcast live via satellite, and sets the record as the most watched broadcast by an individual entertainer in television history.
||1973: Elvis Presley's concert Aloha from Hawaii is broadcast live via satellite, and sets the record as the most watched broadcast by an individual entertainer in television history.


File:Kurt Gödel.jpg|link=Kurt Gödel (nonfiction)|1978: Mathematician, philosopher, and academic [[Kurt Gödel (nonfiction)|Kurt Gödel]] dies. His two incompleteness theorems had an immense impact upon scientific and philosophical thinking in the 20th century.
File:Kurt Gödel.jpg|link=Kurt Gödel (nonfiction)|1978: Mathematician, philosopher, and academic [[Kurt Gödel (nonfiction)|Kurt Gödel]] dies. His two incompleteness theorems had an immense impact upon scientific and philosophical thinking in the 20th century.


||2014 – Milutin Dostanić, Serbian mathematician and academic (b. 1958)
||2014: Milutin Dostanić dies ... mathematician and academic.


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  • 1620: Statesman, scientist, and crime-fighter Paolo Sarpi discovers evidence which clears the name of fellow crime-fighter Galileo Galilei, who had been falsely accused of crimes against mathematical constants.

    1620: Statesman, scientist, and crime-fighter Paolo Sarpi discovers evidence which clears the name of fellow crime-fighter Galileo Galilei, who had been falsely accused of crimes against mathematical constants.

  • 1867: Artist Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres dies. He assumed the role of a guardian of academic orthodoxy against the ascendant Romantic style represented by his nemesis, Eugène Delacroix.

    1867: Artist Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres dies. He assumed the role of a guardian of academic orthodoxy against the ascendant Romantic style represented by his nemesis, Eugène Delacroix.

  • 1874: Scientist and inventor Johann Philipp Reis dies. He invented the Reis Telephone.

    1874: Scientist and inventor Johann Philipp Reis dies. He invented the Reis Telephone.

  • 1875: Photographer, journalist, and crime-fighter Mathew Brady demonstrates new type of scrying engine which detects crimes against mathematical constants.

    1875: Photographer, journalist, and crime-fighter Mathew Brady demonstrates new type of scrying engine which detects crimes against mathematical constants.

  • 1887: Mathematician and academic Hugo Steinhaus born. He will "discover" mathematician Stefan Banach, with whom he will make notable contributions to functional analysis, including the Banach–Steinhaus theorem.

    1887: Mathematician and academic Hugo Steinhaus born. He will "discover" mathematician Stefan Banach, with whom he will make notable contributions to functional analysis, including the Banach–Steinhaus theorem.

  • 1898: Novelist, poet, and mathematician Lewis Carroll dies. He wrote Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, and its sequel Through the Looking-Glass.

    1898: Novelist, poet, and mathematician Lewis Carroll dies. He wrote Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, and its sequel Through the Looking-Glass.

  • 1901: Mathematician and philosopher Alfred Tarski born. He will be a prolific author, contributing to model theory, metamathematics, algebraic logic, abstract algebra, topology, geometry, measure theory, mathematical logic, set theory, and analytic philosophy.

    1901: Mathematician and philosopher Alfred Tarski born. He will be a prolific author, contributing to model theory, metamathematics, algebraic logic, abstract algebra, topology, geometry, measure theory, mathematical logic, set theory, and analytic philosophy.

  • 1901: Mathematician Charles Hermite dies. He did research on number theory, quadratic forms, invariant theory, orthogonal polynomials, elliptic functions, and algebra.

    1901: Mathematician Charles Hermite dies. He did research on number theory, quadratic forms, invariant theory, orthogonal polynomials, elliptic functions, and algebra.

  • 1938: Mathematician and crime-fighter Wilhelm Wirtinger publishes new class of Gnomon algorithm functions based on knot theory which quickly finds applications in the detection and prevention of crimes against mathematical constants.

    1938: Mathematician and crime-fighter Wilhelm Wirtinger publishes new class of Gnomon algorithm functions based on knot theory which quickly finds applications in the detection and prevention of crimes against mathematical constants.

  • 1978: Mathematician, philosopher, and academic Kurt Gödel dies. His two incompleteness theorems had an immense impact upon scientific and philosophical thinking in the 20th century.

    1978: Mathematician, philosopher, and academic Kurt Gödel dies. His two incompleteness theorems had an immense impact upon scientific and philosophical thinking in the 20th century.

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