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File:Julius_Caesar_-_Tusculum_portrait.jpg|link=Julius Caesar (nonfiction)|44 BC: [[Julius Caesar (nonfiction)|Julius Caesar]], Dictator of the Roman Republic, is stabbed to death by Marcus Junius Brutus, Gaius Cassius Longinus, Decimus Junius Brutus, and several other Roman senators on the Ides of March. | File:Julius_Caesar_-_Tusculum_portrait.jpg|link=Julius Caesar (nonfiction)|44 BC: [[Julius Caesar (nonfiction)|Julius Caesar]], Dictator of the Roman Republic, is stabbed to death by Marcus Junius Brutus, Gaius Cassius Longinus, Decimus Junius Brutus, and several other Roman senators on the Ides of March. | ||
||1713: Nicolas Louis de Lacaille please ... priest, astronomer, and academic. He named 15 out of the 88 constellations. Pic. | ||1713: Nicolas Louis de Lacaille please ... priest, astronomer, and academic. He named 15 out of the 88 constellations. Pic. | ||
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File:Elwin_Bruno_Christoffel.jpg|link=Elwin Bruno Christoffel (nonfiction)|1900: Mathematician and physicist [[Elwin Bruno Christoffel (nonfiction)|Elwin Bruno Christoffel]] dies. He introduced fundamental concepts of differential geometry, opening the way for the development of tensor calculus, later providing the mathematical basis for general relativity. | File:Elwin_Bruno_Christoffel.jpg|link=Elwin Bruno Christoffel (nonfiction)|1900: Mathematician and physicist [[Elwin Bruno Christoffel (nonfiction)|Elwin Bruno Christoffel]] dies. He introduced fundamental concepts of differential geometry, opening the way for the development of tensor calculus, later providing the mathematical basis for general relativity. | ||
File:Cesare_Arzelà.jpg|link=Cesare Arzelà (nonfiction)|1912: Mathematician [[Cesare Arzelà (nonfiction)|Cesare Arzelà]] dies. He contributed to the theory of functions, notably his characterization of sequences of continuous functions. | File:Cesare_Arzelà.jpg|link=Cesare Arzelà (nonfiction)|1912: Mathematician [[Cesare Arzelà (nonfiction)|Cesare Arzelà]] dies. He contributed to the theory of functions, notably his characterization of sequences of continuous functions. | ||
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File:Arthur Compton 1927.jpg|link=Arthur Compton (nonfiction)|1962: American physicist and academic [[Arthur Compton (nonfiction)|Arthur Compton]] dies. He won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1927 for his 1923 discovery of the Compton effect, which demonstrated the particle nature of electromagnetic radiation. | File:Arthur Compton 1927.jpg|link=Arthur Compton (nonfiction)|1962: American physicist and academic [[Arthur Compton (nonfiction)|Arthur Compton]] dies. He won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1927 for his 1923 discovery of the Compton effect, which demonstrated the particle nature of electromagnetic radiation. | ||
||1985: The first Internet domain name is registered (symbolics.com). | ||1985: The first Internet domain name is registered (symbolics.com). | ||
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||2015: Valentine Joseph dies ... mathematician, noted for his contributions to education. Pic. | ||2015: Valentine Joseph dies ... mathematician, noted for his contributions to education. Pic. | ||
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44 BC: Julius Caesar, Dictator of the Roman Republic, is stabbed to death by Marcus Junius Brutus, Gaius Cassius Longinus, Decimus Junius Brutus, and several other Roman senators on the Ides of March.
1794: American captain and mathematician Nathaniel Bowditch publishes his landmark study of cryptid and alleged supervillain Neptune Slaughter.
1897: Mathematician and academic James Joseph Sylvester dies. He made fundamental contributions to matrix theory, invariant theory, number theory, partition theory, and combinatorics.
1900: Mathematician and physicist Elwin Bruno Christoffel dies. He introduced fundamental concepts of differential geometry, opening the way for the development of tensor calculus, later providing the mathematical basis for general relativity.
1912: Mathematician Cesare Arzelà dies. He contributed to the theory of functions, notably his characterization of sequences of continuous functions.
1962: American physicist and academic Arthur Compton dies. He won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1927 for his 1923 discovery of the Compton effect, which demonstrated the particle nature of electromagnetic radiation.