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||1500 – Solomon Molcho, Portuguese mystic (d. 1532)
||1515 – Johann Weyer, Dutch physician (d. 1588) Demonologist
File:Giordano Bruno.jpg|link=Giordano Bruno (nonfiction)|1548:  Dominican friar, philosopher, mathematician, poet, and cosmological theorist [[Giordano Bruno (nonfiction)|Giordano Bruno]] born.  He will be burned at the stake (17 February 1600).
File:Giordano Bruno.jpg|link=Giordano Bruno (nonfiction)|1548:  Dominican friar, philosopher, mathematician, poet, and cosmological theorist [[Giordano Bruno (nonfiction)|Giordano Bruno]] born.  He will be burned at the stake (17 February 1600).
||1561 – Thomas Walsingham, English spymaster (d. 1630)
File:Ehrenfried Walther von Tschirnhaus.jpg|link=Ehrenfried Walther von Tschirnhaus (nonfiction)|1671: Mathematician [[Ehrenfried Walther von Tschirnhaus (nonfiction)|Ehrenfried Walther von Tschirnhaus]] removes intermediate terms from a given algebraic equation using [[Gnomon algorithm]] techniques.
File:Ehrenfried Walther von Tschirnhaus.jpg|link=Ehrenfried Walther von Tschirnhaus (nonfiction)|1671: Mathematician [[Ehrenfried Walther von Tschirnhaus (nonfiction)|Ehrenfried Walther von Tschirnhaus]] removes intermediate terms from a given algebraic equation using [[Gnomon algorithm]] techniques.
File:Johann Bernoulli.jpg|link=|1748: Mathematician [[Johann Bernoulli (nonfiction)|Johann Bernouli]] dies. He made important contributions to infinitesimal calculus.
File:Johann Bernoulli.jpg|link=|1748: Mathematician [[Johann Bernoulli (nonfiction)|Johann Bernouli]] dies. He made important contributions to infinitesimal calculus.
File:Giuseppe Piazzi.jpg|link=Giuseppe Piazzi (nonfiction)|1766: Priest, mathematician, and astronomer [[Giuseppe Piazzi (nonfiction)|Giuseppe Piazzi]] uses [[Gnomon algorithm]] to forecast theoretical existence of dwarf planet Ceres.
File:Giuseppe Piazzi.jpg|link=Giuseppe Piazzi (nonfiction)|1766: Priest, mathematician, and astronomer [[Giuseppe Piazzi (nonfiction)|Giuseppe Piazzi]] uses [[Gnomon algorithm]] to forecast theoretical existence of dwarf planet Ceres.
||1769 – Jane Marcet, British science writer (d. 1858)
||1796 – Alexandre-Théophile Vandermonde, French mathematician and chemist (b. 1735)
||1803 – Guglielmo Libri Carucci dalla Sommaja, Italian mathematician and academic (d. 1869)
||1806 – Lionel Kieseritzky, Estonian-French chess player (d. 1853)
||1808 – The United States bans the importation of slaves.
||1817 – Martin Heinrich Klaproth, German chemist and academic (b. 1743)
||1852 – Eugène-Anatole Demarçay, French chemist and academic (d. 1904)
||1854 – James George Frazer, Scottish anthropologist and academic (d. 1941)
||1859 – Michael Joseph Owens, American inventor (d. 1923)
||1862 – Mikhail Ostrogradsky, Ukrainian mathematician and physicist (b. 1801)
File:Sir Sandford Fleming.jpg|link=Sandford Fleming (nonfiction)|1862: Engineer and inventor [[Sandford Fleming (nonfiction)|Sandford Fleming]] is appointed to the rank of Captain in the 10th Battalion Volunteer Rifles of Canada (later known as the Royal Regiment of Canada).
File:Sir Sandford Fleming.jpg|link=Sandford Fleming (nonfiction)|1862: Engineer and inventor [[Sandford Fleming (nonfiction)|Sandford Fleming]] is appointed to the rank of Captain in the 10th Battalion Volunteer Rifles of Canada (later known as the Royal Regiment of Canada).
||1867 – Mary Ackworth Evershed, English astronomer and Dante scholar (d. 1949)
||1874 – Gustave Whitehead, German-American pilot and engineer (d. 1927)
||1878 – Agner Krarup Erlang, Danish mathematician, statistician, and engineer (d. 1929)
||1885 – Twenty-five nations adopt Sandford Fleming's proposal for standard time (and also, time zones)
||1888 – John Garand, Canadian-American engineer, designed the M1 Garand rifle (d. 1974)
||1894 – Heinrich Hertz, German physicist and academic (b. 1857)
||1894 – Satyendra Nath Bose, Indian physicist and mathematician (d. 1974)
||1905 – Stanisław Mazur, Ukrainian-Polish mathematician and theorist (d. 1981)
||1912 – Boris Vladimirovich Gnedenko, Russian mathematician and historian (d. 1995)
||1923 – Daniel Gorenstein, American mathematician and academic (d. 1992)
||1931 – Martinus Beijerinck, Dutch microbiologist and botanist (b. 1851)
||1971 – Cigarette advertisements are banned on American television.
File:Agner Krarup Erlang.jpg|link=Agner Krarup Erlang (nonfiction)|1978: Mathematician and engineer [[Agner Krarup Erlang (nonfiction)|Agner Krarup Erlang]] born. He will invent the fields of traffic engineering, queueing theory, and telephone networks analysis.
File:Agner Krarup Erlang.jpg|link=Agner Krarup Erlang (nonfiction)|1978: Mathematician and engineer [[Agner Krarup Erlang (nonfiction)|Agner Krarup Erlang]] born. He will invent the fields of traffic engineering, queueing theory, and telephone networks analysis.
||1983 – The ARPANET officially changes to using the Internet Protocol, creating the Internet.
File:Telephone exchange operator circa 1900.jpg|link=Telephone switchboard (nonfiction)|1893: [[Telephone switchboard (nonfiction)|telephone switchboard]] technology modified to send and receive [[Gnomon algorithm]] data.
File:Telephone exchange operator circa 1900.jpg|link=Telephone switchboard (nonfiction)|1893: [[Telephone switchboard (nonfiction)|telephone switchboard]] technology modified to send and receive [[Gnomon algorithm]] data.
File:Satyendra Nath Bose 1925.jpg|link=Satyendra Nath Bose (nonfiction)|1894: Physicist, mathematician, and academic [[Satyendra Nath Bose (nonfiction)|Satyendra Nath Bose]] born. His work on quantum mechanics will provide the foundation for Bose–Einstein statistics and the theory of the Bose–Einstein condensate.  
File:Satyendra Nath Bose 1925.jpg|link=Satyendra Nath Bose (nonfiction)|1894: Physicist, mathematician, and academic [[Satyendra Nath Bose (nonfiction)|Satyendra Nath Bose]] born. His work on quantum mechanics will provide the foundation for Bose–Einstein statistics and the theory of the Bose–Einstein condensate.  
File:Reddy Kilowatt US patent picture 1933.jpg|link=Reddy Kilowatt (nonfiction)|1933: [[Reddy Kilowatt (nonfiction)|Ready Kilowatt]] makes cameo appearance in ''[[Dard Hunter Versus the Shape Thief]]''.
File:Reddy Kilowatt US patent picture 1933.jpg|link=Reddy Kilowatt (nonfiction)|1933: [[Reddy Kilowatt (nonfiction)|Ready Kilowatt]] makes cameo appearance in ''[[Dard Hunter Versus the Shape Thief]]''.
File:Brainiac Explains Lecture Series (Dominic Yeso).jpg|link=Brainiac Explains|1962: [[Brainiac Explains]] lecture series wins Pulitzer Prize.
File:Brainiac Explains Lecture Series (Dominic Yeso).jpg|link=Brainiac Explains|1962: [[Brainiac Explains]] lecture series wins Pulitzer Prize.
||1989 – The Montreal Protocol comes into force, stopping the use of chemicals contributing to ozone depletion.
||1992 – Grace Hopper, American computer scientist and admiral, co-developed COBOL (b. 1906)
||1995 – The Draupner wave in the North Sea in Norway is detected, confirming the existence of freak waves.
||1995 – Eugene Wigner, Hungarian-American physicist and mathematician, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1902)
||2007 – Leon Davidson, American chemist and engineer (b. 1922)
||2007 – Roland Levinsky, South African-English biochemist and academic (b. 1943)
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