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|File:Edward Lear.jpg|link=Edward Lear (nonfiction)|1888: Artist, musician, author, and poet [[Edward Lear (nonfiction)|Edward Lear]] invents record number of witticisms.


||1179 – Hildegard of Bingen, German mystic, composer, and saint (b. 1098)
||1179: Hildegard of Bingen dies ... mystic, composer, and saint.


||1479 – Celio Calcagnini, Italian astronomer (d. 1541)
||1479: Celio Calcagnini born ... astronomer.


||1609 – Judah Loew ben Bezalel, Bohemian rabbi, mystic and philosopher (b. 1520)
||1609: Judah Loew ben Bezalel dies ... rabbi, mystic and philosopher.


||1677 – Stephen Hales, English physiologist and chemist, invented Forceps (d. 1761)
||1677: Stephen Hales born ... physiologist and chemist, invented Forceps.


||1683 – Antonie van Leeuwenhoek writes a letter to the Royal Society describing "animalcules": the first known description of protozoa.
||1683: Antonie van Leeuwenhoek writes a letter to the Royal Society describing "animalcules": the first known description of protozoa.


File:Nicolas_de_Condorcet.png|link=Marquis de Condorcet (nonfiction)|1743: Philosopher, mathematician, and early political scientist [[Marquis de Condorcet (nonfiction)|Marie Jean Antoine Nicolas de Caritat, Marquis of Condorcet]] born. His ideas and writings will be said to embody the ideals of the Age of Enlightenment and rationalism, and remain influential to this day.
File:Nicolas_de_Condorcet.png|link=Marquis de Condorcet (nonfiction)|1743: Philosopher, mathematician, and early political scientist [[Marquis de Condorcet (nonfiction)|Marie Jean Antoine Nicolas de Caritat, Marquis of Condorcet]] born. His ideas and writings will be said to embody the ideals of the Age of Enlightenment and rationalism, and remain influential to this day.
||1761: Georg Matthias Bose dies ... famous electrical experimenter in the early days of the development of electrostatics. He is credited with being the first to develop a way of temporarily storing static charges by using an insulated conductor (called a prime conductor). His demonstrations and experiments raised the interests of the German scientific community and the public in the development of electrical research. Pic.


File:Georg Friedrich Bernhard Riemann.jpg|link=Bernhard Riemann (nonfiction)|1826: Mathematician and academic [[Bernhard Riemann (nonfiction)|Bernhard Riemann]] born. He will make contributions to analysis, number theory, and differential geometry.
File:Georg Friedrich Bernhard Riemann.jpg|link=Bernhard Riemann (nonfiction)|1826: Mathematician and academic [[Bernhard Riemann (nonfiction)|Bernhard Riemann]] born. He will make contributions to analysis, number theory, and differential geometry.


||Johannes Frischauf (b. 17 September 1837 in Vienna) was an Austrian mathematician, physicist, astronomer, geodesist and alpinist.
||1837: Johannes Frischauf born ... mathematician, physicist, astronomer, geodesist and alpinist.


File:Riemann critical line.png|link=Riemann hypothesis (nonfiction)|1855: [[Riemann hypothesis (nonfiction)|Riemann hypothesis]]: The real part (red) and imaginary part (blue) of the Riemann zeta function along the critical line Re(s) = 1/2 pre-visualizes non-trivial [[crimes against mathematical constants]] at Im(s) = ±14.135, ±21.022 and ±25.011.
File:Riemann critical line.png|link=Riemann hypothesis (nonfiction)|1855: [[Riemann hypothesis (nonfiction)|Riemann hypothesis]]: The real part (red) and imaginary part (blue) of the Riemann zeta function along the critical line Re(s) = 1/2 pre-visualizes non-trivial [[crimes against mathematical constants]] at Im(s) = ±14.135, ±21.022 and ±25.011.
|File:William Rowan Hamilton.png|link=William Rowan Hamilton (nonfiction)|1856: Physicist, astronomer, and mathematician [[William Rowan Hamilton (nonfiction)|William Rowan Hamilton]] publishes new class of [[Gnomon algorithm functions]] which detect and prevent [[crimes against mathematical constants]].


File:Konstantin Tsiolkovsky.jpg|link=Konstantin Tsiolkovsky (nonfiction)|1857: Scientist and engineer [[Konstantin Tsiolkovsky (nonfiction)|Konstantin Tsiolkovsky]] born. He will be one of the founding fathers of modern rocketry and astronautics.
File:Konstantin Tsiolkovsky.jpg|link=Konstantin Tsiolkovsky (nonfiction)|1857: Scientist and engineer [[Konstantin Tsiolkovsky (nonfiction)|Konstantin Tsiolkovsky]] born. He will be one of the founding fathers of modern rocketry and astronautics.


||1859 – Joshua A. Norton declares himself "Norton I, Emperor of the United States."
||1859: Joshua A. Norton declares himself "Norton I, Emperor of the United States."


||1877 – Henry Fox Talbot, English photographer, developed the Calotype Process (b. 1800)
||1877: Henry Fox Talbot dies ... photographer, developed the Calotype Process.


||1878 – Orélie-Antoine de Tounens, French lawyer and adventurer (b. 1825)
||1878: Orélie-Antoine de Tounens dies ... lawyer and adventurer.


||Hans Freudenthal (b. 17 September 1905) was a German-born Dutch mathematician. He made substantial contributions to algebraic topology and also took an interest in literature, philosophy, history and mathematics education.
||1905: Hans Freudenthal born ... mathematician. He made substantial contributions to algebraic topology and also took an interest in literature, philosophy, history and mathematics education.


||1908 – The Wright Flyer flown by Orville Wright, with Lieutenant Thomas Selfridge as passenger, crashes, killing Selfridge, who becomes the first airplane fatality.
||1908: The Wright Flyer flown by Orville Wright, with Lieutenant Thomas Selfridge as passenger, crashes, killing Selfridge, who becomes the first airplane fatality.


||Marshall Hall, Jr. (b. 17 September 1910) was an American mathematician who made significant contributions to group theory and combinatorics. Pic.
||1910: Marshall Hall, Jr. born ... mathematician who made significant contributions to group theory and combinatorics. Pic.


||David Gilbarg (b. 17 September 1918) was an American mathematician, and a professor emeritus at Stanford University. Gilbarg was co-author, together with his student Neil Trudinger, of the book ''Elliptic Partial Differential Equations of Second Order''.  
||1918: David Gilbarg born ... mathematician, and a professor emeritus at Stanford University. Gilbarg was co-author, together with his student Neil Trudinger, of the book ''Elliptic Partial Differential Equations of Second Order''.  


||Naomi Datta, FRS (b. 17 September 1922) was a distinguished British geneticist. Working at Hammersmith Hospital in the 1950s and early 1960s, she identified horizontal gene transfer as a source of multi-antibiotic resistance in bacteria. Pic.  
||1922: Naomi Datta born ... geneticist. Working at Hammersmith Hospital in the 1950s and early 1960s, she identified horizontal gene transfer as a source of multi-antibiotic resistance in bacteria. Pic.  


||Gerald Stanford Guralnik (b. September 17, 1936) was the Chancellor’s Professor of Physics at Brown University. In 1964 he co-discovered the Higgs mechanism and Higgs boson with C. R. Hagen and Tom Kibble. Pic.
||1936: Gerald Stanford Guralnik born ... Professor of Physics at Brown University. In 1964 he co-discovered the Higgs mechanism and Higgs boson with C. R. Hagen and Tom Kibble. Pic.


||1937 – Walter Dubislav, German logician and philosopher of science, Vienna circle member (b. 1895)
||1937: Walter Dubislav dies ... logician and philosopher of science, Vienna circle member.


File:John Douglas Cockcroft 1961.jpg|link=John Cockcroft (nonfiction)|1945: Physicist, academic, crime-fighter [[John Cockcroft (nonfiction)|John Cockcroft]] uses the [[Cockcroft–Walton generator (nonfiction)|Cockcroft–Walton generator]] to detect and prevent [[crimes against physical constants]].
File:John Douglas Cockcroft 1961.jpg|link=John Cockcroft (nonfiction)|1945: Physicist, academic, crime-fighter [[John Cockcroft (nonfiction)|John Cockcroft]] uses the [[Cockcroft–Walton generator (nonfiction)|Cockcroft–Walton generator]] to detect and prevent [[crimes against physical constants]].


||Charles Edward Spearman (d. 17 September 1945) was an English psychologist known for work in statistics, as a pioneer of factor analysis, and for Spearman's rank correlation coefficient. He also did seminal work on models for human intelligence, including his theory that disparate cognitive test scores reflect a single General intelligence factor and coining the term g factor. Pic.
||1945: Charles Edward Spearman dies ... psychologist known for work in statistics, as a pioneer of factor analysis, and for Spearman's rank correlation coefficient. He also did seminal work on models for human intelligence, including his theory that disparate cognitive test scores reflect a single General intelligence factor and coining the term g factor. Pic.


||Friedrich Adolf Paneth (d. 17 September 1958) was an Austrian-born British chemist.
||1958: Friedrich Adolf Paneth dies ... chemist.


||1991 – The first version of the Linux kernel (0.01) is released to the Internet.
||1991: The first version of the Linux kernel (0.01) is released to the Internet.


File:Karl Popper.jpg|link=Karl Popper (nonfiction)|1994: Philosopher and academic [[Karl Popper (nonfiction)|Karl Popper]] dies. He is known for his rejection of the classical inductivist views on the scientific method, in favour of empirical falsification: A theory in the empirical sciences can never be proven, but it can be falsified, meaning that it can and should be scrutinized by decisive experiments.  
File:Karl Popper.jpg|link=Karl Popper (nonfiction)|1994: Philosopher and academic [[Karl Popper (nonfiction)|Karl Popper]] dies. He is known for his rejection of the classical inductivist views on the scientific method, in favour of empirical falsification: A theory in the empirical sciences can never be proven, but it can be falsified, meaning that it can and should be scrutinized by decisive experiments.  


|2015 – Vadim Kuzmin, Russian physicist and academic (b. 1937)
||2015: Vadim Kuzmin dies ... physicist and academic.


File:Dennis Paulson of Mars illustration.jpg|link=Dennis Paulson of Mars (illustration)|2017: ''[[Dennis Paulson of Mars (illustration)|Dennis Paulson of Mars]]'' credits scientist and engineer [[Konstantin Tsiolkovsky (nonfiction)|Konstantin Tsiolkovsky]] with "inspiring generations of astronauts."
File:Dennis Paulson of Mars illustration.jpg|link=Dennis Paulson of Mars (illustration)|2017: ''[[Dennis Paulson of Mars (illustration)|Dennis Paulson of Mars]]'' credits scientist and engineer [[Konstantin Tsiolkovsky (nonfiction)|Konstantin Tsiolkovsky]] with "inspiring generations of astronauts."


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