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File:Gutenberg.jpg|link=Johannes Gutenberg (nonfiction)|1468: Blacksmith, goldsmith, inventor, and publisher [[Johannes Gutenberg (nonfiction)|Johannes Gutenberg]] dies. | File:Gutenberg.jpg|link=Johannes Gutenberg (nonfiction)|1468: Blacksmith, goldsmith, inventor, and publisher [[Johannes Gutenberg (nonfiction)|Johannes Gutenberg]] dies. | ||
File:Thomas Fincke.jpg|link=Thomas Fincke (nonfiction)|1581: Mathematician and physicist [[Thomas Fincke (nonfiction)|Thomas Fincke]] develops new class of [[Gnomon algorithm functions]] based on tangents and secants. | File:Thomas Fincke.jpg|link=Thomas Fincke (nonfiction)|1581: Mathematician and physicist [[Thomas Fincke (nonfiction)|Thomas Fincke]] develops new class of [[Gnomon algorithm functions]] based on tangents and secants. | ||
||1690 – The colony of Massachusetts issues the first paper money in the Americas. | |||
||1737 – Tommaso Ceva, Italian mathematician and academic (b. 1648) | |||
File:Giuseppe Piazzi.jpg|link=Giuseppe Piazzi (nonfiction)|1767: Priest, mathematician, and astronomer [[Giuseppe Piazzi (nonfiction)|Giuseppe Piazzi]] uses [[scrying engine]] to pre-visualize the dwarf planet Ceres. | File:Giuseppe Piazzi.jpg|link=Giuseppe Piazzi (nonfiction)|1767: Priest, mathematician, and astronomer [[Giuseppe Piazzi (nonfiction)|Giuseppe Piazzi]] uses [[scrying engine]] to pre-visualize the dwarf planet Ceres. | ||
||Karl Brandan Mollweide, (3 February 1774 in Wolfenbüttel – 10 March 1825 in Leipzig) was a German mathematician | |||
||Karl Brandan Mollweide, (3 February 1774 in Wolfenbüttel – 10 March 1825 in Leipzig) was a German mathematician and astronomer in Halle and Leipzig. | |||
||1777 – John Cheyne, Scottish physician and author (d. 1836) | |||
||1821 – Elizabeth Blackwell, American physician and educator (d. 1910) | |||
||1859 – Hugo Junkers, German engineer, designed the Junkers J 1 (d. 1935) | |||
File:Jean Baptiste Biot.jpg|link=Jean-Baptiste Biot (nonfiction)|1862: Physicist, astronomer, and mathematician [[Jean-Baptiste Biot (nonfiction)|Jean-Baptiste Biot]] dies. He established the reality of meteorites, made an early balloon flight, and studied the polarization of light. | File:Jean Baptiste Biot.jpg|link=Jean-Baptiste Biot (nonfiction)|1862: Physicist, astronomer, and mathematician [[Jean-Baptiste Biot (nonfiction)|Jean-Baptiste Biot]] dies. He established the reality of meteorites, made an early balloon flight, and studied the polarization of light. | ||
File:Wilhelm Bauer.gif|link=Wilhelm Bauer (nonfiction)|1863: Inventor and engineer [[Wilhelm Bauer (nonfiction)|Wilhelm Bauer]] uses [[Gnomon algorithm functions]] to power new type of submarine, capable of remaining submerged as long as computation is maintained. | File:Wilhelm Bauer.gif|link=Wilhelm Bauer (nonfiction)|1863: Inventor and engineer [[Wilhelm Bauer (nonfiction)|Wilhelm Bauer]] uses [[Gnomon algorithm functions]] to power new type of submarine, capable of remaining submerged as long as computation is maintained. | ||
||1887 – Georg Trakl, Austrian pharmacist and poet (d. 1914) | |||
||1893 – Gaston Julia, Algerian-French mathematician and academic (d. 1978) | |||
||1905 – Arne Beurling, Swedish-American mathematician and academic (d. 1986) | |||
||1909 – Simone Weil, French mystic and philosopher (d. 1943) | |||
File:Agner Krarup Erlang.jpg|link=Agner Krarup Erlang (nonfiction)|1929: Mathematician and engineer [[Agner Krarup Erlang (nonfiction)|Agner Krarup Erlang]] dies. He invented the fields of traffic engineering, queueing theory, and telephone networks analysis. | File:Agner Krarup Erlang.jpg|link=Agner Krarup Erlang (nonfiction)|1929: Mathematician and engineer [[Agner Krarup Erlang (nonfiction)|Agner Krarup Erlang]] dies. He invented the fields of traffic engineering, queueing theory, and telephone networks analysis. | ||
||1935 – Hugo Junkers, German engineer, designed the Junkers J 1 (b. 1859) | |||
||1956 – Émile Borel, French mathematician and academic (b. 1871) | |||
File:Cantor Parabola and Gnotilus at Athens.jpg|link=Cantor Parabola and Gnotilus at Athens|1959: ''[[Cantor Parabola and Gnotilus at Athens]]'' hailed as "a triumph of art and crime-fighting." | File:Cantor Parabola and Gnotilus at Athens.jpg|link=Cantor Parabola and Gnotilus at Athens|1959: ''[[Cantor Parabola and Gnotilus at Athens]]'' hailed as "a triumph of art and crime-fighting." | ||
File:Boeing EC-135C Looking Glass.jpg|link=Operation Looking Glass (nonfiction)|1961: The United States Air Forces begins [[Operation Looking Glass (nonfiction)|Operation Looking Glass]], and over the next 30 years, a "Doomsday Plane" is always in the air, with the capability of taking direct control of the United States' bombers and missiles in the event of the destruction of the SAC's command post. | File:Boeing EC-135C Looking Glass.jpg|link=Operation Looking Glass (nonfiction)|1961: The United States Air Forces begins [[Operation Looking Glass (nonfiction)|Operation Looking Glass]], and over the next 30 years, a "Doomsday Plane" is always in the air, with the capability of taking direct control of the United States' bombers and missiles in the event of the destruction of the SAC's command post. | ||
File:William_D._Coolidge.jpg|link=William D. Coolidge (nonfiction)|1975: Physicist and engineer [[William D. Coolidge (nonfiction)|William D. Coolidge]] dies. He made major contributions to X-ray machines, and developed ductile tungsten for incandescent light bulbs. | |||
||1985 – Frank Oppenheimer, American physicist and academic (b. 1912) | |||
||2005 – Ernst Mayr, German-American biologist and ornithologist (b. 1904) taxonomy, speciation | |||
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1468: Blacksmith, goldsmith, inventor, and publisher Johannes Gutenberg dies.
1581: Mathematician and physicist Thomas Fincke develops new class of Gnomon algorithm functions based on tangents and secants.
1767: Priest, mathematician, and astronomer Giuseppe Piazzi uses scrying engine to pre-visualize the dwarf planet Ceres.
1862: Physicist, astronomer, and mathematician Jean-Baptiste Biot dies. He established the reality of meteorites, made an early balloon flight, and studied the polarization of light.
1863: Inventor and engineer Wilhelm Bauer uses Gnomon algorithm functions to power new type of submarine, capable of remaining submerged as long as computation is maintained.
1929: Mathematician and engineer Agner Krarup Erlang dies. He invented the fields of traffic engineering, queueing theory, and telephone networks analysis.
1959: Cantor Parabola and Gnotilus at Athens hailed as "a triumph of art and crime-fighting."
1961: The United States Air Forces begins Operation Looking Glass, and over the next 30 years, a "Doomsday Plane" is always in the air, with the capability of taking direct control of the United States' bombers and missiles in the event of the destruction of the SAC's command post.
1975: Physicist and engineer William D. Coolidge dies. He made major contributions to X-ray machines, and developed ductile tungsten for incandescent light bulbs.