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||1632 – Philippe van Lansberge, Dutch astronomer and mathematician (b. 1561)
||1632: Philippe van Lansberge dies ... astronomer and mathematician.


||Albert Girard (d. 8 December 1632) was a French-born mathematician. He "had early thoughts on the fundamental theorem of algebra"[1] and gave the inductive definition for the Fibonacci numbers. He was the first to use the abbreviations 'sin', 'cos' and 'tan' for the trigonometric functions in a treatise.
||1632: Albert Girard dies ... mathematician. He "had early thoughts on the fundamental theorem of algebra" and gave the inductive definition for the Fibonacci numbers. He was the first to use the abbreviations 'sin', 'cos' and 'tan' for the trigonometric functions in a treatise.


||1730 – Jan Ingenhousz, Dutch physician, physiologist, and botanist (d. 1799)
||1730: Jan Ingenhousz born ... physiologist, biologist and chemist. He is best known for discovering photosynthesis by showing that light is essential to the process by which green plants absorb carbon dioxide and release oxygen. He also discovered that plants, like animals, have cellular respiration. Pic.


||1795 – Peter Andreas Hansen, Danish astronomer and mathematician (d. 1874) Peter Andreas Hansen (born December 8, 1795  Tønder, Schleswig, Denmark – died March 28, 1874 Gotha, Thuringia, Germany) was a Danish German astronomer.
||1795: Peter Andreas Hansen born ... astronomer and mathematician born.


||1807 – Friedrich Traugott Kützing, German pharmacist, botanist and phycologist (d. 1893) diatoms v. desmids
||1807: Friedrich Traugott Kützing born ... pharmacist, botanist and phycologist ... diatoms v. desmids.


||Johan Gottlieb Gahn (b. 8 December 1818) was a Swedish chemist and metallurgist who discovered manganese in 1774. Pic.
||1818: Johan Gottlieb Gahn born ... chemist and metallurgist who discovered manganese in 1774. Pic.


File:Jacquard loom with two children and a dog (circa 1877).jpg|link=Jacquard loom (nonfiction)|1825: Children reprogram [[Jacquard loom (nonfiction)|Jacquard loom]] to compute new family of [[Gnomon algorithm functions]].
File:Jacquard loom with two children and a dog (circa 1877).jpg|link=Jacquard loom (nonfiction)|1825: Children reprogram [[Jacquard loom (nonfiction)|Jacquard loom]] to compute new family of [[Gnomon algorithm functions]].
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File:Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey by Sir Thomas Lawrence copy.jpg|link=Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey (nonfiction)|1835: [[Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey (nonfiction)|Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey]] secretly prints first edition of ''[[The Adulteration of Bergamot]]''.
File:Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey by Sir Thomas Lawrence copy.jpg|link=Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey (nonfiction)|1835: [[Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey (nonfiction)|Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey]] secretly prints first edition of ''[[The Adulteration of Bergamot]]''.


||Louis Arthur Ducos du Hauron (b. 8 December 1837) was a French pioneer of color photography. He worked on developing practical processes for color photography on the three-color principle, using both additive and subtractive methods; and introduced the anaglyph stereoscopic print, the "red and blue glasses" type of 3-D print. Pic.
||1837: Louis Arthur Ducos du Hauron born ... pioneer of color photography. He worked on developing practical processes for color photography on the three-color principle, using both additive and subtractive methods; and introduced the anaglyph stereoscopic print, the "red and blue glasses" type of 3-D print. Pic.


File:George Boole.jpg|link=George Boole (nonfiction)|1864: Mathematician and philosopher [[George Boole (nonfiction)|George Boole]] dies.  He worked in the fields of differential equations and algebraic logic, developing Boolean algebra and Boolean logic.
File:George Boole.jpg|link=George Boole (nonfiction)|1864: Mathematician and philosopher [[George Boole (nonfiction)|George Boole]] dies.  He worked in the fields of differential equations and algebraic logic, developing Boolean algebra and Boolean logic.
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File:Jacques Hadamard.jpg|link=Jacques Hadamard (nonfiction)|1865: Mathematician [[Jacques Hadamard (nonfiction)|Jacques Hadamard]] born.  He will make major contributions in number theory, complex function theory, differential geometry and partial differential equations.
File:Jacques Hadamard.jpg|link=Jacques Hadamard (nonfiction)|1865: Mathematician [[Jacques Hadamard (nonfiction)|Jacques Hadamard]] born.  He will make major contributions in number theory, complex function theory, differential geometry and partial differential equations.


||1894 – Pafnuty Chebyshev, Russian mathematician and theorist (b. 1821) Pafnuty Lvovich Chebyshev (Russian: Пафну́тий Льво́вич Чебышёв; IPA: [pɐfˈnutʲɪj ˈlʲvovʲɪtɕ tɕɪbɨˈʂof]) (May 16 [O.S. May 4] 1821 – December 8 [O.S. November 26] 1894)[1] was a Russian mathematician.
||1894: Pafnuty Chebyshev dies ... mathematician and theorist.


||1894 – E. C. Segar, American cartoonist, created Popeye (d. 1938)
||1894: E. C. Segar born ... cartoonist, created Popeye.


||1894 – James Thurber, American humorist and cartoonist (d. 1961)
||1894: James Thurber born ... humorist and cartoonist.


||1903 – Herbert Spencer, English biologist, anthropologist, sociologist, and philosopher (b. 1820)
||1903: Herbert Spencer dies ... biologist, anthropologist, sociologist, and philosopher.


||1913 – Delmore Schwartz, American poet and short story writer (d. 1966)
||1913: Delmore Schwartz born ... poet and short story writer.


||1919 – Julia Robinson, American mathematician and theorist (d. 1985)
||1919: Julia Robinson born ... mathematician and theorist.


||1919 – Kateryna Yushchenko, Ukrainian computer scientist and academic (d. 2001)
||1919: Kateryna Yushchenko born ... computer scientist and academic.


File:Carnivorous_airships_circa_1930-31.jpg|link=Carnivorous dirigible|1932: US Navy raises flock of [[Carnivorous dirigible|Carnivorous dirigibles]].
File:Carnivorous_airships_circa_1930-31.jpg|link=Carnivorous dirigible|1932: US Navy raises flock of [[Carnivorous dirigible|Carnivorous dirigibles]].


||Pavel Alexandrovich Florensky (killed December 8, 1937) was a Russian Orthodox theologian, priest, philosopher, mathematician, physicist, electrical engineer, inventor, polymath and neomartyr.
||1937: Pavel Alexandrovich Florensky killed ... theologian, priest, philosopher, mathematician, physicist, electrical engineer, inventor, polymath and neomartyr.


||1938: Jon Hal Folkman born ... mathematician, a student of John Milnor, and a researcher at the RAND Corporation. Pic: diagram.
||1938: Jon Hal Folkman born ... mathematician, a student of John Milnor, and a researcher at the RAND Corporation. Pic: diagram.


||1941 – World War II: U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt declares December 7 to be "a date which will live in infamy", after which the U.S. declares war on Japan.
||1941: World War II: U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt declares December 7 to be "a date which will live in infamy", after which the U.S. declares war on Japan.


||1953 – U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower delivers his "Atoms for Peace" speech, which leads to an American program to supply equipment and information on nuclear power to schools, hospitals, and research institutions around the world.
||1953: U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower delivers his "Atoms for Peace" speech, which leads to an American program to supply equipment and information on nuclear power to schools, hospitals, and research institutions around the world.


File:Hermann Weyl.jpg|link=Hermann Weyl (nonfiction)|1955: Mathematician, physicist, and philosopher [[Hermann Weyl (nonfiction)|Hermann Weyl]] dies. He was one of the most influential mathematicians of the twentieth century: his research has major significance for theoretical physics as well as purely mathematical disciplines including number theory.  
File:Hermann Weyl.jpg|link=Hermann Weyl (nonfiction)|1955: Mathematician, physicist, and philosopher [[Hermann Weyl (nonfiction)|Hermann Weyl]] dies. He was one of the most influential mathematicians of the twentieth century: his research has major significance for theoretical physics as well as purely mathematical disciplines including number theory.  


||1960 – Aaron Allston, American game designer and author (d. 2014)
||1960: Aaron Allston born ... game designer and author.


||Francesco Severi (d. 8 December 1961) was an Italian mathematician.
||1961: Francesco Severi dies ... mathematician.


||Griffith Conrad Evans (d. 8 December 1973) was a mathematician working for much of his career at the University of California, Berkeley. He is largely credited with elevating Berkeley's mathematics department to a top-tier research department, having recruited many notable mathematicians in the 1930s and 1940s.
||1973: Griffith Conrad Evans dies ... mathematician working for much of his career at the University of California, Berkeley. He is largely credited with elevating Berkeley's mathematics department to a top-tier research department, having recruited many notable mathematicians in the 1930s and 1940s.


||1980 – Former Beatle John Lennon is murdered in front of The Dakota in New York City.
||1980: Former Beatle John Lennon is murdered in front of The Dakota in New York City.


||Vladimir Nikolayevich Chelomey (d. 8 December 1984) was a Soviet mechanics scientist, aviation and missile engineer. He invented the very first Soviet pulse jet engine and was responsible for the development of the world's first anti-ship cruise missiles and ICBM complexes
||1984: Vladimir Nikolayevich Chelomey dies ... mechanics scientist, aviation and missile engineer. He invented the very first Soviet pulse jet engine and was responsible for the development of the world's first anti-ship cruise missiles and ICBM complexes.


||1991 – The leaders of Russia, Belarus and Ukraine sign an agreement dissolving the Soviet Union and establishing the Commonwealth of Independent States.
||1991: The leaders of Russia, Belarus and Ukraine sign an agreement dissolving the Soviet Union and establishing the Commonwealth of Independent States.


||2001 – Betty Holberton, American computer scientist and programmer (b. 1917)
||2001: Betty Holberton dies ... computer scientist and programmer.


||2010 – With the second launch of the SpaceX Falcon 9 and the first launch of the SpaceX Dragon, SpaceX becomes the first private company to successfully launch, orbit and recover a spacecraft.
||2010: With the second launch of the SpaceX Falcon 9 and the first launch of the SpaceX Dragon, SpaceX becomes the first private company to successfully launch, orbit and recover a spacecraft.


||2010 – The Japanese solar-sail spacecraft IKAROS passes the planet Venus at a distance of about 80,800 km.
||2010: The Japanese solar-sail spacecraft IKAROS passes the planet Venus at a distance of about 80,800 km.


||2013 – John Cornforth, Australian-English chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1917)
||2013: John Cornforth, Australian-English chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1917)


File:Weyl semimetal diagram.png|link=Weyl semimetal (nonfiction)|2017: First use of [[Weyl semimetal (nonfiction)|Weyl semimetal crystals]] to detect and prevent [[crimes against mathematical constants]].
File:Weyl semimetal diagram.png|link=Weyl semimetal (nonfiction)|2017: First use of [[Weyl semimetal (nonfiction)|Weyl semimetal crystals]] to detect and prevent [[crimes against mathematical constants]].

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