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File:Sir Isaac Newton by Sir Godfrey Kneller.jpg|link=Isaac Newton (nonfiction)|1687: [[Isaac Newton (nonfiction)|Isaac Newton]] publishes ''Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica'' ("Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy"). ''Principia''  states Newton's laws of motion, forming the foundation of classical mechanics; Newton's law of universal gravitation; and a derivation of Kepler's laws of planetary motion (which Kepler first obtained empirically).
File:Sir Isaac Newton by Sir Godfrey Kneller.jpg|link=Isaac Newton (nonfiction)|1687: [[Isaac Newton (nonfiction)|Isaac Newton]] publishes ''Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica'' ("Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy"). ''Principia''  states Newton's laws of motion, forming the foundation of classical mechanics; Newton's law of universal gravitation; and a derivation of Kepler's laws of planetary motion (which Kepler first obtained empirically).


||Leopoldo Nobili, born on 5 July 1784, was an Italian physicist who invented a number of instruments critical to investigating thermodynamics and electrochemistry. Pic.
||1784: Leopoldo Nobili born ... physicist who invented a number of instruments critical to investigating thermodynamics and electrochemistry. Pic.


||1805 Robert FitzRoy, English captain, meteorologist, and politician, 2nd Governor of New Zealand (d. 1865) "forecasts"
||1805: Robert FitzRoy born ... captain, meteorologist, and politician, 2nd Governor of New Zealand ... "forecasts".


||Karl Christoph Vogt (d. 5 July 1817) was a German scientist, philosopher and politician
||1817: Karl Christoph Vogt dies ... scientist, philosopher and politician


||1820 William John Macquorn Rankine, Scottish physicist, mathematician, and engineer (d. 1872)
||1820: William John Macquorn Rankine born ... physicist, mathematician, and engineer.


||Joseph Louis Proust (d. 5 July 1826) was a French chemist. He was best known for his discovery of the law of constant composition in 1794, stating that chemical compounds always combine in constant proportions.
||1826: Joseph Louis Proust dies ... chemist. He was best known for his discovery of the law of constant composition in 1794, stating that chemical compounds always combine in constant proportions.


||Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles, FRS (d. 5 July 1826) was a British statesman, Lieutenant-Governor of British Java (1811–1815) and Governor-General of Bencoolen (1817–1822), best known for his founding of Modern Singapore.
||1826: Thomas Stamford Raffles dies ... British statesman, Lieutenant-Governor of British Java (1811–1815) and Governor-General of Bencoolen (1817–1822), best known for his founding of Modern Singapore.


||1833 Nicéphore Niépce, French inventor, created the first known photograph (b. 1765)
||1833: Nicéphore Niépce dies ... inventor, created the first known photograph.


||1862 George Nuttall, American-British bacteriologist (d. 1937) parasites
||1862: George Nuttall born ... bacteriologist ... parasites.


||1862 Horatio Caro, English chess master (d. 1920)
||1862: Horatio Caro born ... chess master.


||1867 A. E. Douglass, American astronomer (d. 1962)
||1867: A. E. Douglass born ... astronomer.


||1874 – Eugen Fischer, German physician and academic (d. 1967) Nazi
||1874 – Eugen Fischer, German physician and academic (d. 1967) Nazi
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File:Oskar Bolza.jpg|link=Oskar Bolza (nonfiction)|1942: Mathematician [[Oskar Bolza (nonfiction)|Oskar Bolza]] dies. He is known for his research in the calculus of variations; his work on variations for an integral problem involving inequalities later became important in control theory.
File:Oskar Bolza.jpg|link=Oskar Bolza (nonfiction)|1942: Mathematician [[Oskar Bolza (nonfiction)|Oskar Bolza]] dies. He is known for his research in the calculus of variations; his work on variations for an integral problem involving inequalities later became important in control theory.


||1966 George de Hevesy, Hungarian-German chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1885)
||1966: George de Hevesy dies ... chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate.


||1973 A boiling liquid expanding vapor explosion (BLEVE) in Kingman, Arizona, following a fire that broke out as propane was being transferred from a railroad car to a storage tank, kills eleven firefighters.
||1973: A boiling liquid expanding vapor explosion (BLEVE) in Kingman, Arizona, following a fire that broke out as propane was being transferred from a railroad car to a storage tank, kills eleven firefighters.


||1989 Iran–Contra affair: Oliver North is sentenced by U.S. District Judge Gerhard A. Gesell to a three-year suspended prison term, two years probation, $150,000 in fines and 1,200 hours community service. His convictions are later overturned.
||1989: Iran–Contra affair: Oliver North is sentenced by U.S. District Judge Gerhard A. Gesell to a three-year suspended prison term, two years probation, $150,000 in fines and 1,200 hours community service. His convictions are later overturned.


||Leo Breiman (d. July 5, 2005) was a distinguished statistician. His work helped to bridge the gap between statistics and computer science, particularly in the field of machine learning. His most important contributions were his work on classification and regression trees and ensembles of trees fit to bootstrap samples. Pic.
||2005: Leo Breiman dies ... statistician. His work helped to bridge the gap between statistics and computer science, particularly in the field of machine learning. His most important contributions were his work on classification and regression trees and ensembles of trees fit to bootstrap samples. Pic.


File:Staffordshire_Hoard.jpg|link=Staffordshire Hoard (nonfiction)|2009: Discovery of the [[Staffordshire Hoard (nonfiction)|Staffordshire hoard]], the largest hoard of Anglo-Saxon gold ever discovered in England, consisting of more than 1,500 items found near the village of Hammerwich, near Lichfield, Staffordshire.
File:Staffordshire_Hoard.jpg|link=Staffordshire Hoard (nonfiction)|2009: Discovery of the [[Staffordshire Hoard (nonfiction)|Staffordshire hoard]], the largest hoard of Anglo-Saxon gold ever discovered in England, consisting of more than 1,500 items found near the village of Hammerwich, near Lichfield, Staffordshire.


||2015 Uffe Haagerup, Danish mathematician and academic (b. 1949)
||2015: Uffe Haagerup dies ... mathematician and academic.


||2015 Yoichiro Nambu, Japanese-American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1921)
||2015: Yoichiro Nambu dies ... physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate.


File:Violet Spiral.jpg|link=Violet Spiral (nonfiction)|2017: Signed first edition of ''[[Violet Spiral (nonfiction)|Violet Spiral]]'' purchased for an undisclosed sum by "an eminent [[Gnomon algorithm]] theorist from [[New Minneapolis, Canada]].
File:Violet Spiral.jpg|link=Violet Spiral (nonfiction)|2017: Signed first edition of ''[[Violet Spiral (nonfiction)|Violet Spiral]]'' purchased for an undisclosed sum by "an eminent [[Gnomon algorithm]] theorist from [[New Minneapolis, Canada]].


File:Pin Man number 1 cover art.jpg|link=Pin Man (nonfiction)|2018: Signed first edition of [[Pin Man (nonfiction)|Pin Man #1]] stolen from the Louvre in a daring daylight robbery allegedly masterminded by [[Baron Zersetzung]].
File:Pin Man number 1 cover art.jpg|link=Pin Man (nonfiction)|2018: Signed first edition of [[Pin Man (nonfiction)|Pin Man #1]] stolen from the Louvre in a daring daylight robbery allegedly masterminded by [[Baron Zersetzung]].
||2018: Evgeny Golod dies ... mathematician who proved the Golod–Shafarevich theorem on class field towers. As an application, he gave a negative solution to the Kurosh–Levitzky problem on the nilpotency of finitely generated nil algebras, and so to a weak form of Burnside's problem. Pic: http://www.advgrouptheory.com/GTArchivum/Pictures/gtphotos.html
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