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|File:Didacus automaton profile.jpg|link=Didacus automaton (nonfiction)|1563: [[Didacus automaton (nonfiction)|Didacus automaton]] spontaneously generates new type of [[Gnomon algorithm function]].
|File:Didacus automaton profile.jpg|link=Didacus automaton (nonfiction)|1563: [[Didacus automaton (nonfiction)|Didacus automaton]] spontaneously generates new type of [[Gnomon algorithm function]].
||1602 – The Bodleian Library at the University of Oxford is opened to the public.
||1656 – Edmond Halley, English astronomer and mathematician (d. 1742)


File:John Wallis by Sir Godfrey Kneller.jpg|link=John Wallis (nonfiction)|1703: Mathematician and cryptographer [[John Wallis (nonfiction)|John Wallis]] dies. He served as chief cryptographer for Parliament and, later, the royal court.
File:John Wallis by Sir Godfrey Kneller.jpg|link=John Wallis (nonfiction)|1703: Mathematician and cryptographer [[John Wallis (nonfiction)|John Wallis]] dies. He served as chief cryptographer for Parliament and, later, the royal court.
||1719 – Michel Rolle, French mathematician and author (b. 1652)


File:Ivan Logginovitch Goremykin.jpg|link=Ivan Goremykin (nonfiction)|1839: Birth of [[Ivan Goremykin (nonfiction)|Ivan Goremykin]] heralds new age of [[Extreme Moustaches]].
File:Ivan Logginovitch Goremykin.jpg|link=Ivan Goremykin (nonfiction)|1839: Birth of [[Ivan Goremykin (nonfiction)|Ivan Goremykin]] heralds new age of [[Extreme Moustaches]].
||1848 – Gottlob Frege, German mathematician and philosopher (d. 1925)
||1854 – Johannes Rydberg, Swedish physicist and academic (d. 1919)


||1861 – American Civil War: The "Trent Affair": The USS San Jacinto stops the British mail ship Trent and arrests two Confederate envoys, sparking a diplomatic crisis between the UK and US.
||1861 – American Civil War: The "Trent Affair": The USS San Jacinto stops the British mail ship Trent and arrests two Confederate envoys, sparking a diplomatic crisis between the UK and US.
||1868 – Felix Hausdorff, German mathematician and academic (d. 1942)
||1878 – Dorothea Bate, English palaeontologist and archaeozoologist (d. 1951)


File:Wilhelm Röntgen.jpg|link=Wilhelm Röntgen (nonfiction)|1895: While experimenting with electricity, [[Wilhelm Röntgen (nonfiction)|Wilhelm Röntgen]] discovers the X-ray.
File:Wilhelm Röntgen.jpg|link=Wilhelm Röntgen (nonfiction)|1895: While experimenting with electricity, [[Wilhelm Röntgen (nonfiction)|Wilhelm Röntgen]] discovers the X-ray.
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|File:Lord_Kelvin.jpg|link=Crimes against mathematical constants|1900: "[[Crimes against mathematical constants]] are on the rise," warns Lord Kelvin.
|File:Lord_Kelvin.jpg|link=Crimes against mathematical constants|1900: "[[Crimes against mathematical constants]] are on the rise," warns Lord Kelvin.
||1918 – Hermann Zapf, German typographer and calligrapher (d. 2015)
||1922 – Thea D. Hodge, American computer scientist and academic (d. 2008)
||1923 – Jack Kilby, American physicist and engineer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2005)
||1924 – Robert V. Hogg, American statistician and academic (d. 2014)
||1934 – Carlos Chagas, Brazilian physician and bacteriologist (b. 1879)


|File:Joseph_Schillinger_and_the_Rhythmicon.jpg|link=Drum machine (nonfiction)|1937: Music educator Joseph Schillinger inspects [[Drum machine (nonfiction)|Rhythmicon]], finds no evidence of [[crimes against mathematical constants]].
|File:Joseph_Schillinger_and_the_Rhythmicon.jpg|link=Drum machine (nonfiction)|1937: Music educator Joseph Schillinger inspects [[Drum machine (nonfiction)|Rhythmicon]], finds no evidence of [[crimes against mathematical constants]].
||1939 – Venlo Incident: Two British agents of SIS are captured by the Germans.
||1939 – In Munich, Adolf Hitler narrowly escapes the assassination attempt of Georg Elser while celebrating the 16th anniversary of the Beer Hall Putsch.
||1950 – Korean War: United States Air Force Lt. Russell J. Brown, while piloting an F-80 Shooting Star, shoots down two North Korean MiG-15s in the first jet aircraft-to-jet aircraft dogfight in history.
||1957 – Operation Grapple X, Round C1: The United Kingdom conducts its first successful hydrogen bomb test over Kiritimati in the Pacific.
||1960 – John F. Kennedy defeats Richard Nixon in one of the closest presidential elections of the 20th century to become the 35th president of the United States.
||1986 – Aaron Swartz, American computer programmer and activist (d. 2013)
||2006 – Hannspeter Winter, Austrian physicist and academic (b. 1941)
||2009 – Vitaly Ginzburg, Russian physicist and astrophysicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1916)
||2011 – Bil Keane, American cartoonist (b. 1922)
||2011 – The potentially hazardous asteroid 2005 YU55 passes 0.85 lunar distances from Earth (about 324,600 kilometres or 201,700 miles), the closest known approach by an asteroid of its brightness since 2010 XC15 in 1976.
||2013 – William C. Davidon, American physicist, mathematician, and academic (b. 1927)
||2015 – Rod Davies, Australian-English astronomer and academic (b. 1930)


||Gino Fano (5 January 1871 – 8 November 1952) was an Italian mathematician, best known as the founder of the finite geometry. He was born in Mantua, in Italy and died in Verona, also in Italy.
||Gino Fano (5 January 1871 – 8 November 1952) was an Italian mathematician, best known as the founder of the finite geometry. He was born in Mantua, in Italy and died in Verona, also in Italy.

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