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File:Nikolaus Kopernikus.jpg|link=Nicolaus Copernicus (nonfiction)|1473: Mathematician and astronomer [[Nicolaus Copernicus (nonfiction)|Nicolaus Copernicus]] born. He will formulate a model of the universe that places the Sun rather than the Earth at the center of the universe. | File:Nikolaus Kopernikus.jpg|link=Nicolaus Copernicus (nonfiction)|1473: Mathematician and astronomer [[Nicolaus Copernicus (nonfiction)|Nicolaus Copernicus]] born. He will formulate a model of the universe that places the Sun rather than the Earth at the center of the universe. | ||
|| | ||1511: Erasmus Reinhold born ... astronomer and mathematician. | ||
||1519 | ||1519: Froben Christoph of Zimmern born ... author of the Zimmern Chronicle. | ||
||1526 | ||1526: Carolus Clusius born ... botanist and academic. | ||
||1553 | ||1553: Erasmus Reinhold dies ... astronomer and mathematician. | ||
File:Blaise_de_Vigenère.png|link=Blaise de Vigenère (nonfiction)|1596: Cryptographer and diplomat [[Blaise de Vigenère (nonfiction)]] dies. The Vigenère cipher was misattributed to him; Vigenère himself devised a different, stronger cipher. | File:Blaise_de_Vigenère.png|link=Blaise de Vigenère (nonfiction)|1596: Cryptographer and diplomat [[Blaise de Vigenère (nonfiction)]] dies. The Vigenère cipher was misattributed to him; Vigenère himself devised a different, stronger cipher. | ||
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File:Huaynaputina.jpg|link=Huaynaputina (nonfiction)|1600: The [[Huaynaputina (nonfiction)|Peruvian stratovolcano Huaynaputina]] explodes in the most violent eruption in the recorded history of South America. | File:Huaynaputina.jpg|link=Huaynaputina (nonfiction)|1600: The [[Huaynaputina (nonfiction)|Peruvian stratovolcano Huaynaputina]] explodes in the most violent eruption in the recorded history of South America. | ||
||1660 | ||1660: Friedrich Hoffmann dies ... physician and chemist. | ||
|| | ||1789: William Fairbairn born ... civil engineer, structural engineer and shipbuilder. | ||
File:Jean Charles Borda.jpg|link=Jean-Charles de Borda (nonfiction)|1799: Mathematician, physicist, and sailor [[Jean-Charles de Borda (nonfiction)|Jean-Charles de Borda]] dies. He contributed to the development of the metric system, constructing a platinum standard meter, the basis of metric distance measurement. | File:Jean Charles Borda.jpg|link=Jean-Charles de Borda (nonfiction)|1799: Mathematician, physicist, and sailor [[Jean-Charles de Borda (nonfiction)|Jean-Charles de Borda]] dies. He contributed to the development of the metric system, constructing a platinum standard meter, the basis of metric distance measurement. | ||
||1804 | ||1804: Carl von Rokitansky born ... physician, pathologist, and philosopher. | ||
||1807 | ||1807: Former Vice President of the United States Aaron Burr is arrested for treason in Wakefield, Alabama and confined to Fort Stoddert. | ||
||1859 | ||1859: Svante Arrhenius born ... physicist and chemist, Nobel Prize laureate. | ||
||Axel Thue | ||1863: Axel Thue born ... mathematician, known for highly original work in diophantine approximation, and combinatorics. He stated in 1914 the so-called word problem for semigroups or Thue problem, closely related to the halting problem. | ||
||1878 | ||1878: Thomas Edison patents the phonograph. | ||
File:Karl Weierstrass.jpg|link=Karl Weierstrass (nonfiction)|1897: Mathematician and academic [[Karl Weierstrass (nonfiction)|Karl Weierstrass]] dies. He will be cited as the "father of modern analysis". | File:Karl Weierstrass.jpg|link=Karl Weierstrass (nonfiction)|1897: Mathematician and academic [[Karl Weierstrass (nonfiction)|Karl Weierstrass]] dies. He will be cited as the "father of modern analysis". | ||
|| | ||1908: Paul Matthieu Hermann Laurent dies ... mathematician. He developed statistical formulas for the calculation of actuarial tables and studied heat conduction. Pic. | ||
|| | ||1915: Fritz Joachim Weyl born ... mathematician. | ||
||Joseph Valentin Boussinesq | ||1916: Ernst Mach dies ... physicist and philosopher. | ||
||1929: Joseph Valentin Boussinesq dies ... mathematician and physicist who made significant contributions to the theory of hydrodynamics, vibration, light, and heat. | |||
File:Maria Goeppert-Mayer.jpg|link=Maria Goeppert-Mayer (nonfiction)|1937: Physicist and crime-fighter [[Maria Goeppert-Mayer (nonfiction)|Maria Goeppert-Mayer]] publishes mathematical model for the structure of nuclear shells which detects and prevents [[crimes against physical constants]]. | File:Maria Goeppert-Mayer.jpg|link=Maria Goeppert-Mayer (nonfiction)|1937: Physicist and crime-fighter [[Maria Goeppert-Mayer (nonfiction)|Maria Goeppert-Mayer]] publishes mathematical model for the structure of nuclear shells which detects and prevents [[crimes against physical constants]]. |
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1473: Mathematician and astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus born. He will formulate a model of the universe that places the Sun rather than the Earth at the center of the universe.
1596: Cryptographer and diplomat Blaise de Vigenère (nonfiction) dies. The Vigenère cipher was misattributed to him; Vigenère himself devised a different, stronger cipher.
1600: The Peruvian stratovolcano Huaynaputina explodes in the most violent eruption in the recorded history of South America.
1799: Mathematician, physicist, and sailor Jean-Charles de Borda dies. He contributed to the development of the metric system, constructing a platinum standard meter, the basis of metric distance measurement.
1897: Mathematician and academic Karl Weierstrass dies. He will be cited as the "father of modern analysis".
1937: Physicist and crime-fighter Maria Goeppert-Mayer publishes mathematical model for the structure of nuclear shells which detects and prevents crimes against physical constants.
2015: Extract of Radium sponsors re-enactment of the Peruvian stratovolcano Huaynaputina.
2016: Novelist, literary critic, and philosopher Umberto Eco dies. He cited James Joyce and Jorge Luis Borges as the two modern authors who have influenced his work the most.
2017: Steganographic analysis of Alice Beta Paragliding reveals encrypted data "almost certainly related to secret programs within the ENIAC program."
2017: Mathematician and dissident Igor Shafarevich dies. He made fundamental contributions to algebraic number theory, algebraic geometry, and arithmetic algebraic geometry.