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||1509 – Étienne Dolet, French scholar and translator (d. 1546)
||1509: Étienne Dolet born ... scholar and translator (d. 1546)


||1747: Diderot and d'Alembert became directors of ''Encyclopedie'' project. They replaced de Gua, who had earlier done much to systematize analytic geometry, as director of the publishing project which was to become the celebrated Encyclopedie.  
||1747: Diderot and d'Alembert became directors of ''Encyclopedie'' project. They replaced de Gua, who had earlier done much to systematize analytic geometry, as director of the publishing project which was to become the celebrated Encyclopedie.  
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File:Sir Richard Arkwright by Mather Brown 1790.jpg|link=Richard Arkwright (nonfiction)|1792: Inventor, engineer, and businessman [[Richard Arkwright (nonfiction)|Richard Arkwright]] dies. Later in his life Arkwright was known as the "father of the modern industrial factory system."
File:Sir Richard Arkwright by Mather Brown 1790.jpg|link=Richard Arkwright (nonfiction)|1792: Inventor, engineer, and businessman [[Richard Arkwright (nonfiction)|Richard Arkwright]] dies. Later in his life Arkwright was known as the "father of the modern industrial factory system."


||William Kennedy-Laurie Dickson (b. 3 August 1860) was a Scottish inventor who devised an early motion picture camera under the employment of Thomas Edison (post-dating the work of Louis Le Prince).
||1860: William Kennedy-Laurie Dickson born ... inventor who devised an early motion picture camera under the employment of Thomas Edison (post-dating the work of Louis Le Prince).


||Otto Marcin Nikodym (b. 3 August 1887) was a Polish mathematician. He worked in a wide range of areas, but his best-known early work was his contribution to the development of the Lebesgue–Radon–Nikodym integral (see Radon–Nikodym theorem). Pic.
||1887: Otto Marcin Nikodym born ... mathematician. He worked in a wide range of areas, but his best-known early work was his contribution to the development of the Lebesgue–Radon–Nikodym integral (see Radon–Nikodym theorem). Pic.


||Mark Kac (b. August 3, 1914) was a Polish American mathematician. His main interest was probability theory. His question, "Can one hear the shape of a drum?" set off research into spectral theory, with the idea of understanding the extent to which the spectrum allows one to read back the geometry. (In the end, the answer was "no", in general.) Pic.
||1914: Mark Kac born ... mathematician. His main interest was probability theory. His question, "Can one hear the shape of a drum?" set off research into spectral theory, with the idea of understanding the extent to which the spectrum allows one to read back the geometry. (In the end, the answer was "no", in general.) Pic.


File:The Eel Time-Surfing 2.jpg|link=The Eel Time-Surfing 2|1916: Well-known illustration ''[[The Eel Time-Surfing 2]]'' is exhibited in Paris for the first time.
File:The Eel Time-Surfing 2.jpg|link=The Eel Time-Surfing 2|1916: Well-known illustration ''[[The Eel Time-Surfing 2]]'' is exhibited in Paris for the first time.
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File:Georg Frobenius.jpg|link=Ferdinand Georg Frobenius (nonfiction)|1917: Mathematician and academic [[Ferdinand Georg Frobenius (nonfiction)|Ferdinand Georg Frobenius]] dies. He made contributions to the theory of elliptic functions, differential equations, and group theory.
File:Georg Frobenius.jpg|link=Ferdinand Georg Frobenius (nonfiction)|1917: Mathematician and academic [[Ferdinand Georg Frobenius (nonfiction)|Ferdinand Georg Frobenius]] dies. He made contributions to the theory of elliptic functions, differential equations, and group theory.


||1918: Sidney Gottlieb, American chemist and theorist (d. 1999) Sidney Gottlieb (born Joseph Scheider; August 3, 1918 – March 7, 1999) was an American chemist and spymaster best known for his involvement with the Central Intelligence Agency's 1950s and '60s assassination attempts and mind control program, known as Project MKUltra.
||1918: Sidney Gottlieb, American chemist and theorist born ... chemist and spymaster best known for his involvement with the Central Intelligence Agency's 1950s and '60s assassination attempts and mind control program, known as Project MKUltra.


||1929: Thorstein Veblen, American economist and sociologist (b. 1857)
||1922: Mathias Lerch dies ... mathematician who published about 250 papers, largely on mathematical analysis and number theory. The Lerch zeta-function is named after him as is the Appell–Lerch sum. Pic.
 
||1929: Thorstein Veblen, American economist and sociologist.


||1929: Emile Berliner, German-American inventor and businessman, invented the phonograph (b. 1851) Emile Berliner (d.  August 3, 1929), originally Emil Berliner, was a German-born American inventor. He is best known for inventing the flat disc phonograph record (called a gramophone record in British English and originally also in American English) and the Gramophone.  
||1929: Emile Berliner, German-American inventor and businessman, invented the phonograph (b. 1851) Emile Berliner (d.  August 3, 1929), originally Emil Berliner, was a German-born American inventor. He is best known for inventing the flat disc phonograph record (called a gramophone record in British English and originally also in American English) and the Gramophone.  

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