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||1346: Hundred Years' War: The military supremacy of the English longbow over the French combination of crossbow and armoured knights is established at the Battle of Crécy.
||1346: Hundred Years' War: The military supremacy of the English longbow over the French combination of crossbow and armoured knights is established at the Battle of Crécy.


||1349: Thomas Bradwardine dies ... archbishop, mathematician, and physicist.
||1349: Thomas Bradwardine dies ... archbishop, mathematician, and physicist. Pic: book cover.


||1572: Petrus Ramus dies ... humanist, logician, and educational reformer. A Protestant convert, he was killed during the St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre.
||1572: Petrus Ramus dies ... humanist, logician, and educational reformer. A Protestant convert, he was killed during the St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre ... humanist, logician, and educational reformer. A Protestant convert, he was killed during the St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre. Pic.


File:Denis Papin.jpg|link=Denis Papin (nonfiction)|1713: Physicist, mathematician, and inventor [[Denis Papin (nonfiction)|Denis Papin]] dies. He invented the steam digester, the forerunner of the pressure cooker and of the steam engine.
File:Denis Papin.jpg|link=Denis Papin (nonfiction)|1713: Physicist, mathematician, and inventor [[Denis Papin (nonfiction)|Denis Papin]] dies. He invented the steam digester, the forerunner of the pressure cooker and of the steam engine.
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||1728: Johann Heinrich Lambert born ... mathematician, physicist, and astronomer.
||1728: Johann Heinrich Lambert born ... mathematician, physicist, and astronomer.
File:Seven Bridges of Königsberg.png|link=Seven Bridges of Königsberg (nonfiction)|1735: [[Leonhard Euler (nonfiction)|Leonhard Euler]] presents his solution to the [[Seven Bridges of Königsberg (nonfiction)|Königsberg bridge problem]] -- whether it was possible to find a route crossing each of the seven bridges of the city of Königsberg once and only once -- in a lecture to his colleagues at the Academy of Sciences in St. Petersburg.


||1736: Jean-Baptiste L. Romé de l'Isle born ... mineralogist and geologist.
||1736: Jean-Baptiste L. Romé de l'Isle born ... mineralogist and geologist.
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||1875: Giuseppe Vitali born ... mathematician who worked in several branches of mathematical analysis. He gives his name to several entities in mathematics, most notably the Vitali set with which he was the first to give an example of a non-measurable subset of real numbers. Pic.
||1875: Giuseppe Vitali born ... mathematician who worked in several branches of mathematical analysis. He gives his name to several entities in mathematics, most notably the Vitali set with which he was the first to give an example of a non-measurable subset of real numbers. Pic.


||1882 – James Franck, German physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1964)
||1882: James Franck born ... physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate.


||Elizebeth Smith Friedman (b. August 26, 1892) was an expert cryptanalyst and author, and pioneer in U.S. cryptography. She has been called "America's first female cryptanalyst".
||1892: Elizebeth Smith Friedman born ... expert cryptanalyst and author, and pioneer in U.S. cryptography. She has been called "America's first female cryptanalyst".


File:Mark Twain Interviews Wallace War-Heels.jpg|link=Mark Twain Interviews Wallace War-Heels|1895: Signed first edition of ''[[Mark Twain Interviews Wallace War-Heels|Interview with Wallace War-Heels]]'' sells for ninety thousand dollars in charity auction to benefit victims of [[crimes against mathematical constants]].
File:Mark Twain Interviews Wallace War-Heels.jpg|link=Mark Twain Interviews Wallace War-Heels|1895: Signed first edition of ''[[Mark Twain Interviews Wallace War-Heels|Interview with Wallace War-Heels]]'' sells for ninety thousand dollars in charity auction to benefit victims of [[crimes against mathematical constants]].


||Wolfgang Krull (b. 26 August 1899) was a German mathematician who made fundamental contributions to commutative algebra, introducing concepts that are now central to the subject. Pic.
||1899: Wolfgang Krull born ... mathematician who made fundamental contributions to commutative algebra, introducing concepts that are now central to the subject. Pic.
 
||1900: Hedley Ralph Marston born  ... biochemist.


||Hedley Ralph Marston FRS FAA (b. 1900) was an Australian biochemist
||1901: Hans Kammler born ... civil engineer and SS commander during the Nazi era. He oversaw SS construction projects and towards the end of World War II was put in charge of the V-2 missile and jet programmes. Pic.


||Hans Kammler (b. 26 August 1901) was a German civil engineer and SS commander during the Nazi era. He oversaw SS construction projects and towards the end of World War II was put in charge of the V-2 missile and jet programmes. Pic.
||1906: Albert Bruce Sabin born ... physician and microbiologist best known for developing the first oral polio vaccine (1955), which was administered to millions of children in Europe, Africa, and the Americas beginning in the late 1950s. He was also known for his research in the fields of human viral diseases, toxoplasmosis, and cancer. Pic.


||1918 – Katherine Johnson, American physicist and mathematician
||1918: Katherine Johnson born ... physicist and mathematician


||Richard Ernest Bellman (b. August 26, 1920) was an American applied mathematician, who introduced dynamic programming in 1953, and important contributions in other fields of mathematics.
||1920: Richard Ernest Bellman born ... applied mathematician, who introduced dynamic programming in 1953, and important contributions in other fields of mathematics.


||1921 – Shimshon Amitsur, Israeli mathematician and scholar (d. 1994)
||1921: Shimshon Amitsur born ... mathematician and scholar.


||1935 – Karen Spärck Jones, English computer scientist and academic (d. 2007)
||1935: Karen Spärck Jones born ... computer scientist and academic.


||Howard Percy "Bob" Robertson (d. 1961) was an American mathematician and physicist known for contributions related to physical cosmology and the uncertainty principle.
||1961: Howard Percy "Bob" Robertson dies ... mathematician and physicist known for contributions related to physical cosmology and the uncertainty principle.


File:Charles Lindbergh.jpg|link=Charles Lindbergh (nonfiction)|1974: Pilot and explorer [[Charles Lindbergh (nonfiction)|Charles Lindbergh]] dies. At age 25 in 1927 he went from obscurity as a U.S. Air Mail pilot to instantaneous world fame by making his Orteig Prize–winning nonstop flight from Long Island, New York, to Paris.  
File:Charles Lindbergh.jpg|link=Charles Lindbergh (nonfiction)|1974: Pilot and explorer [[Charles Lindbergh (nonfiction)|Charles Lindbergh]] dies. At age 25 in 1927 he went from obscurity as a U.S. Air Mail pilot to instantaneous world fame by making his Orteig Prize–winning nonstop flight from Long Island, New York, to Paris.  


||1987 – Georg Wittig, German chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1897)
||1987: Georg Wittig dies ... chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate.


||Daniel Gorenstein (d. August 26, 1992) was an American mathematician. He was a major influence on the classification of finite simple groups. Pic.
||1992: Daniel Gorenstein dies ... mathematician. He was a major influence on the classification of finite simple groups. Pic.


File:John Killian Houston Brunner circa 1967.jpg|link=John Brunner (nonfiction)|1995: Writer and peace activist [[John Brunner (nonfiction)|John Brunner]] dies.
File:John Killian Houston Brunner circa 1967.jpg|link=John Brunner (nonfiction)|1995: Writer and peace activist [[John Brunner (nonfiction)|John Brunner]] dies.


||1998 – Frederick Reines, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1918)
||1998: Frederick Reines dies ... physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate.


File:Egg Tooth Neighborhood Association logo.jpg|link=Egg Tooth (neighborhood)|2010: [[Egg Tooth (neighborhood)|Egg Tooth Neighborhood Association]] sponsors conference on the life and work of writer and crime-fighter [[John Brunner]].
|File:Egg Tooth Neighborhood Association logo.jpg|link=Egg Tooth (neighborhood)|2010: [[Egg Tooth (neighborhood)|Egg Tooth Neighborhood Association]] sponsors conference on the life and work of writer and crime-fighter [[John Brunner]].


||2011 – Patrick C. Fischer, American computer scientist and academic (b. 1935)
||2011: Patrick C. Fischer dies ... computer scientist and academic.


||2012 – Krzysztof Wilmanski, Polish-German physicist and academic (b. 1940)
||2012: Krzysztof Wilmanski dies ... physicist and academic.


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  • 1713: Physicist, mathematician, and inventor Denis Papin dies. He invented the steam digester, the forerunner of the pressure cooker and of the steam engine.

    1713: Physicist, mathematician, and inventor Denis Papin dies. He invented the steam digester, the forerunner of the pressure cooker and of the steam engine.

  • 1735: Leonhard Euler presents his solution to the Königsberg bridge problem -- whether it was possible to find a route crossing each of the seven bridges of the city of Königsberg once and only once -- in a lecture to his colleagues at the Academy of Sciences in St. Petersburg.

    1735: Leonhard Euler presents his solution to the Königsberg bridge problem -- whether it was possible to find a route crossing each of the seven bridges of the city of Königsberg once and only once -- in a lecture to his colleagues at the Academy of Sciences in St. Petersburg.

  • 1743: Chemist and biologist Antoine Lavoisier born. He will have a large influence on both the history of chemistry and the history of biology.

    1743: Chemist and biologist Antoine Lavoisier born. He will have a large influence on both the history of chemistry and the history of biology.

  • 1895: Signed first edition of Interview with Wallace War-Heels sells for ninety thousand dollars in charity auction to benefit victims of crimes against mathematical constants.

    1895: Signed first edition of Interview with Wallace War-Heels sells for ninety thousand dollars in charity auction to benefit victims of crimes against mathematical constants.

  • 1974: Pilot and explorer Charles Lindbergh dies. At age 25 in 1927 he went from obscurity as a U.S. Air Mail pilot to instantaneous world fame by making his Orteig Prize–winning nonstop flight from Long Island, New York, to Paris.

    1974: Pilot and explorer Charles Lindbergh dies. At age 25 in 1927 he went from obscurity as a U.S. Air Mail pilot to instantaneous world fame by making his Orteig Prize–winning nonstop flight from Long Island, New York, to Paris.

  • 1995: Writer and peace activist John Brunner dies.

    1995: Writer and peace activist John Brunner dies.

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