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||120 – Vettius Valens, Greek astrologer (d. 175)
||120: Vettius Valens born ... astrologer.


||1588 – Ole Worm, Danish physician and historian (d. 1654)
||1588: Ole Worm born ... physician and historian.


File:Alexis Clairault.jpg|link=Alexis Clairaut (nonfiction)|1713: Mathematician, astronomer, and geophysicist [[Alexis Clairaut (nonfiction)|Alexis Clairaut]] born. His work will help to establish the validity of the principles and results that Sir Isaac Newton had outlined in the ''Principia'' of 1687.
File:Alexis Clairault.jpg|link=Alexis Clairaut (nonfiction)|1713: Mathematician, astronomer, and geophysicist [[Alexis Clairaut (nonfiction)|Alexis Clairaut]] born. His work will help to establish the validity of the principles and results that Sir Isaac Newton had outlined in the ''Principia'' of 1687.
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File:Carl von Linné.jpg|link=Carl Linnaeus (nonfiction)|1733: Botanist, physician, and zoologist [[Carl Linnaeus (nonfiction)|Carl Linnaeus]] invents a binomial nomenclature system of taxonomy to define and characterize a wide range of [[crimes against mathematical constants]].
File:Carl von Linné.jpg|link=Carl Linnaeus (nonfiction)|1733: Botanist, physician, and zoologist [[Carl Linnaeus (nonfiction)|Carl Linnaeus]] invents a binomial nomenclature system of taxonomy to define and characterize a wide range of [[crimes against mathematical constants]].


||Ernst Gottfried Baldinger (b. 13 May 1738), German physician, was born in Großvargula near Erfurt. He studied medicine at Erfurt, Halle and Jena, earning his MD in 1760 under the guidance of Ernst Anton Nicolai and in 1761 was entrusted with the superintendence of the military hospitals connected with the Prussian encampment near Torgau. He published a treatise in 1765, De Militum Morbis, which met with a favourable reception.  
||1738: Ernst Gottfried Baldinger born ... physician, was born in Großvargula near Erfurt. He studied medicine at Erfurt, Halle and Jena, earning his MD in 1760 under the guidance of Ernst Anton Nicolai and in 1761 was entrusted with the superintendence of the military hospitals connected with the Prussian encampment near Torgau. He published a treatise in 1765, De Militum Morbis, which met with a favourable reception.  


||1753 – Lazare Carnot, French general, mathematician, and politician, French Minister of the Interior (d. 1823)
||1753: Lazare Carnot born ... general, mathematician, and politician, French Minister of the Interior.


||1795 – Gérard Paul Deshayes, French geologist and chronologist (d. 1875)
||1795: Gérard Paul Deshayes born ... geologist and chronologist.


File:Edward Lear.jpg|link=Edward Lear (nonfiction)|1812: Artist, musician, author, and poet [[Edward Lear (nonfiction)|Edward Lear]] born either today or yesterday.
File:Edward Lear.jpg|link=Edward Lear (nonfiction)|1812: Artist, musician, author, and poet [[Edward Lear (nonfiction)|Edward Lear]] born either today or yesterday.


||1857 – Ronald Ross, Indian-English physician and mathematician, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1932)
||1857: Ronald Ross born ... physician and mathematician, Nobel Prize laureate.


||Denison Olmsted (d. May 13, 1859) was an American physicist and astronomer. Professor Olmsted is credited with giving birth to meteor science after the 1833 Leonid meteor shower over North America spurred him to study this phenomenon.
||1859: Denison Olmsted dies ... physicist and astronomer. Professor Olmsted is credited with giving birth to meteor science after the 1833 Leonid meteor shower over North America spurred him to study this phenomenon.


||1866 – Nikolai Brashman, Czech-Russian mathematician and academic (b. 1796)
||1866: Nikolai Brashman dies ... mathematician and academic.


||1878 – Joseph Henry, American physicist and academic (b. 1797)
||1878: Joseph Henry dies ... physicist and academic.


File:Thomas Edison.jpg|link=Thomas Edison (nonfiction)|1880: In Menlo Park, New Jersey, inventor [[Thomas Edison (nonfiction)|Thomas Edison]] performs the first test of his electric railway.
File:Thomas Edison.jpg|link=Thomas Edison (nonfiction)|1880: In Menlo Park, New Jersey, inventor [[Thomas Edison (nonfiction)|Thomas Edison]] performs the first test of his electric railway.


||1885 – Friedrich Gustav Jakob Henle, German physician, pathologist, and anatomist (b. 1809)
||1885: Friedrich Gustav Jakob Henle dies ... physician, pathologist, and anatomist.


||Ferdinand Minding (d. May 13, 1885) was a German-Russian mathematician known for his contributions to differential geometry. Minding considered questions of bending of surfaces and proved the invariance of geodesic curvature. He studied ruled surfaces, developable surfaces and surfaces of revolution and determined geodesics on the pseudosphere. Pic.
||1885: Ferdinand Minding dies ... mathematician known for his contributions to differential geometry. Minding considered questions of bending of surfaces and proved the invariance of geodesic curvature. He studied ruled surfaces, developable surfaces and surfaces of revolution and determined geodesics on the pseudosphere. Pic.


||1888 – With the passage of the Lei Áurea ("Golden Law"), Empire of Brazil abolishes slavery.
||1888: With the passage of the Lei Áurea ("Golden Law"), Empire of Brazil abolishes slavery.


||Jacques-Louis Soret (d. 13 May 1890) was a Swiss chemist who in 1878, along with Marc Delafontaine, first observed holmium spectroscopically. Soret was also responsible for correctly working out the chemical composition of ozone as being three oxygen atoms bound together.
||1890: Jacques-Louis Soret dies ... chemist who in 1878, along with Marc Delafontaine, first observed holmium spectroscopically. Soret was also responsible for correctly working out the chemical composition of ozone as being three oxygen atoms bound together.


||Kurt Diebner (b. 13 May 1905) was a German nuclear physicist who is well known for directing and administrating the German nuclear energy project, a secretive program aiming to build nuclear weapons for Nazi Germany during the course of World War II. Pic.
||1902: Hugh Rose Foss born ... cryptanalyst. At Bletchley Park during World War II he made significant contributions both to the breaking of the German Enigma code and headed the section tasked with breaking Japanese Naval codes.


||1914 – Antonia Ferrín Moreiras, Spanish mathematician, academic, and astronomer (d. 2009)
||1905: Kurt Diebner born ... nuclear physicist who is well known for directing and administrating the German nuclear energy project, a secretive program aiming to build nuclear weapons for Nazi Germany during the course of World War II. Pic.


||Arthur Scherbius (d. 13 May 1929) was a German electrical engineer who patented an invention for a mechanical cipher machine, later sold as the Enigma machine.
||1914: Antonia Ferrín Moreiras born ... mathematician, academic, and astronomer.


||1930 – Fridtjof Nansen, Norwegian scientist, explorer, and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1861)
||1929: Arthur Scherbius dies ... electrical engineer who patented an invention for a mechanical cipher machine, later sold as the Enigma machine.


||David Todd Wilkinson (b. 13 May 1935) 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.
||1930: Fridtjof Nansen dies ... scientist, explorer, and academic, Nobel Prize laureate.
 
||1935: David Todd Wilkinson born ... pioneer in the field of cosmology, specializing in the study of the cosmic microwave background radiation (CMB) left over from the Big Bang.


File:The Safe-Cracker.jpg|link=The Safe-Cracker|1936: ''The Safe-Cracker'' wins Pulitzer Prize, hailed as "most daring illustration of the year."
File:The Safe-Cracker.jpg|link=The Safe-Cracker|1936: ''The Safe-Cracker'' wins Pulitzer Prize, hailed as "most daring illustration of the year."
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File:Roger Zelazny 1988.jpg|link=Roger Zelazny (nonfiction)|1937: Writer [[Roger Zelazny (nonfiction)|Roger Zelazny]] born. He will win the Nebula award three times, and the Hugo award six times.
File:Roger Zelazny 1988.jpg|link=Roger Zelazny (nonfiction)|1937: Writer [[Roger Zelazny (nonfiction)|Roger Zelazny]] born. He will win the Nebula award three times, and the Hugo award six times.


||1938 – Charles Édouard Guillaume, Swiss-French physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1861)
||1938: Charles Édouard Guillaume dies ... physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate.


||1939 – The first commercial FM radio station in the United States is launched in Bloomfield, Connecticut. The station later becomes WDRC-FM.
||1939: The first commercial FM radio station in the United States is launched in Bloomfield, Connecticut. The station later becomes WDRC-FM.


File:Stanisław Leśniewski.jpg|link=Stanisław Leśniewski (nonfiction)|1939: Mathematician, philosopher, and logician [[Stanisław Leśniewski (nonfiction)|Stanisław Leśniewski]] dies. He posited three nested formal systems, to which he will give the Greek-derived names of protothetic, ontology, and mereology.
File:Stanisław Leśniewski.jpg|link=Stanisław Leśniewski (nonfiction)|1939: Mathematician, philosopher, and logician [[Stanisław Leśniewski (nonfiction)|Stanisław Leśniewski]] dies. He posited three nested formal systems, to which he will give the Greek-derived names of protothetic, ontology, and mereology.


||Theodore Willard Case (d. May 13, 1944) was an American chemist, physicist, and inventor known for the invention of the Movietone sound-on-film sound film system. Pic.
||1944: Theodore Willard Case dies ... chemist, physicist, and inventor known for the invention of the Movietone sound-on-film sound film system. Pic.


||1957 – Michael Fekete, Hungarian-Israeli mathematician and academic (b. 1886)
||1957: Michael Fekete dies ... mathematician and academic.


||1958 – Ben Carlin becomes the first (and only) person to circumnavigate the world by amphibious vehicle, having travelled over 17,000 kilometres (11,000 mi) by sea and 62,000 kilometres (39,000 mi) by land during a ten-year journey.
||1958: Ben Carlin becomes the first (and only) person to circumnavigate the world by amphibious vehicle, having travelled over 17,000 kilometres (11,000 mi) by sea and 62,000 kilometres (39,000 mi) by land during a ten-year journey.


||1977 – Mickey Spillane, American mobster (b. 1934)
||1977: Mickey Spillane dies ... American mobster.


||1985 – Police release a bomb on MOVE headquarters in Philadelphia to end a stand-off, killing six adults and five children, and destroying the homes of 250 city residents.
||1985: Police release a bomb on MOVE headquarters in Philadelphia to end a stand-off, killing six adults and five children, and destroying the homes of 250 city residents.


||Erich Ernest Zepler (d. 13 May 1980), later known as Eric, was a German-born electronics expert and chess problem composer. Pic.
||1980: Erich Ernest Zepler dies ... electronics expert and chess problem composer. Pic.


||Magnus Rudolph Hestenes (d. May 31, 1991) was an American mathematician. Together with Cornelius Lanczos and Eduard Stiefel, he invented the conjugate gradient method. Pic.
||1991: Magnus Rudolph Hestenes dies ... mathematician. Together with Cornelius Lanczos and Eduard Stiefel, he invented the conjugate gradient method. Pic.


||1995 – Hao Wang, Chinese-American logician, philosopher, and mathematician (b. 1921)
||1995: Hao Wang dies ... logician, philosopher, and mathematician.


||1998 – India carries out two nuclear tests at Pokhran, following the three conducted on May 11. The United States and Japan impose economic sanctions on India.
||1998: India carries out two nuclear tests at Pokhran, following the three conducted on May 11. The United States and Japan impose economic sanctions on India.


||Sergey Alexandrovich Afanasyev (d. May 13, 2001) was a prominent Soviet engineer, space and defence industry executive, the first Minister of the Soviet-era Ministry of General Machine Building.
||2001: Sergey Alexandrovich Afanasyev dies ... Soviet engineer, space and defense industry executive, the first Minister of the Soviet-era Ministry of General Machine Building.


||George Bernard Dantzig (d. May 13, 2005) was an American mathematical scientist who made important contributions to operations research, computer science, economics, and statistics. Dantzig is known for his development of the simplex algorithm, an algorithm for solving linear programming problems. Pic.  
||2005: George Bernard Dantzig dies ... mathematical scientist who made important contributions to operations research, computer science, economics, and statistics. Dantzig is known for his development of the simplex algorithm, an algorithm for solving linear programming problems. Pic.  


||Paul Roesel Garabedian (d. May 13, 2010) was a mathematician and numerical analyst. He is known for his contributions to the fields of computational fluid dynamics and plasma physics, which ranged from elegant existence proofs for Potential theory and conformal mappings to the design and optimization of stellarators. Pic.
||2010: Paul Roesel Garabedian dies ... mathematician and numerical analyst. He is known for his contributions to the fields of computational fluid dynamics and plasma physics, which ranged from elegant existence proofs for Potential theory and conformal mappings to the design and optimization of stellarators. Pic.


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  • 1713: Mathematician, astronomer, and geophysicist Alexis Clairaut born. His work will help to establish the validity of the principles and results that Sir Isaac Newton had outlined in the Principia of 1687.

    1713: Mathematician, astronomer, and geophysicist Alexis Clairaut born. His work will help to establish the validity of the principles and results that Sir Isaac Newton had outlined in the Principia of 1687.

  • 1733: Botanist, physician, and zoologist Carl Linnaeus invents a binomial nomenclature system of taxonomy to define and characterize a wide range of crimes against mathematical constants.

    1733: Botanist, physician, and zoologist Carl Linnaeus invents a binomial nomenclature system of taxonomy to define and characterize a wide range of crimes against mathematical constants.

  • 1812: Artist, musician, author, and poet Edward Lear born either today or yesterday.

    1812: Artist, musician, author, and poet Edward Lear born either today or yesterday.

  • 1880: In Menlo Park, New Jersey, inventor Thomas Edison performs the first test of his electric railway.

    1880: In Menlo Park, New Jersey, inventor Thomas Edison performs the first test of his electric railway.

  • 1936: The Safe-Cracker wins Pulitzer Prize, hailed as "most daring illustration of the year."

    1936: The Safe-Cracker wins Pulitzer Prize, hailed as "most daring illustration of the year."

  • 1937: Writer Roger Zelazny born. He will win the Nebula award three times, and the Hugo award six times.

    1937: Writer Roger Zelazny born. He will win the Nebula award three times, and the Hugo award six times.

  • 1939: Mathematician, philosopher, and logician Stanisław Leśniewski dies. He posited three nested formal systems, to which he will give the Greek-derived names of protothetic, ontology, and mereology.

    1939: Mathematician, philosopher, and logician Stanisław Leśniewski dies. He posited three nested formal systems, to which he will give the Greek-derived names of protothetic, ontology, and mereology.

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