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||AD 51 – Nero, later to become Roman emperor, is given the title ''princeps iuventutis'' (head of the youth).
File:Abd al-Rahman al-Sufi.jpg|link=Abd al-Rahman al-Sufi (nonfiction)|928: Astronomer [[Abd al-Rahman al-Sufi (nonfiction)|Abd al-Rahman al-Sufi]] uses [[Gnomon algorithm]] to solve [[crimes against mathematical constants]].
File:Abd al-Rahman al-Sufi.jpg|link=Abd al-Rahman al-Sufi (nonfiction)|928: Astronomer [[Abd al-Rahman al-Sufi (nonfiction)|Abd al-Rahman al-Sufi]] uses [[Gnomon algorithm]] to solve [[crimes against mathematical constants]].
||1394 – Prince Henry the Navigator, Portuguese patron of exploration (d. 1460)
||1519 – Hernán Cortés arrives in Mexico in search of the Aztec civilization and its wealth.
||1634 – Kazimierz Łyszczyński, Polish philosopher (d. 1689) Executed for writing "De non existentia Dei" (On the non-existence of God)
||1675 – John Flamsteed is appointed the first Astronomer Royal of England.
File:Jack Sheppard - Thornhill.jpg|link=Jack Sheppard (nonfiction)|1702: Thief [[Jack Sheppard (nonfiction)|Jack Sheppard]] born. He will be arrested and imprisoned five times in 1724 but escape four times from prison, making him a notorious public figure, and wildly popular with the poorer classes.  
File:Jack Sheppard - Thornhill.jpg|link=Jack Sheppard (nonfiction)|1702: Thief [[Jack Sheppard (nonfiction)|Jack Sheppard]] born. He will be arrested and imprisoned five times in 1724 but escape four times from prison, making him a notorious public figure, and wildly popular with the poorer classes.  
||1760 – Hugh Ronalds, British nurseryman who cultivated and documented 300 varieties of apples (d. 1833)
||1790 – France is divided into 83 départements, cutting across the former provinces in an attempt to dislodge regional loyalties based on ownership of land by the nobility.
||1792 – Isaac Lea, American conchologist, geologist, and publisher (d. 1886)
||1822 – Jules Antoine Lissajous, French mathematician and academic (d. 1880)
||1826 – Theodore Judah, American engineer, founded the Central Pacific Railroad (d. 1863)
||1853 – Christian Leopold von Buch, German geologist and paleontologist (b. 1774)
||1837 – The city of Chicago is incorporated.
||1847 – Carl Josef Bayer, Austrian chemist and academic (d. 1904)
||1862 – Jacob Robert Emden, Swiss astrophysicist and meteorologist (d. 1940)
||1866 – Eugène Cosserat, French mathematician and astronomer (d. 1931)
||1871 – Boris Galerkin, Russian mathematician and engineer (d. 1945)
||1876 – Theodore Hardeen, Hungarian-American magician (d. 1945)
||1877 – Garrett Morgan, African-American inventor (d. 1963)
File:Tolman and Einstein.jpg|link=Richard C. Tolman (nonfiction)|1881: Physicist and chemist [[Richard C. Tolman (nonfiction)|Richard C. Tolman]] born. He will make important contributions to theoretical cosmology in the years soon after Einstein's discovery of general relativity.
File:Tolman and Einstein.jpg|link=Richard C. Tolman (nonfiction)|1881: Physicist and chemist [[Richard C. Tolman (nonfiction)|Richard C. Tolman]] born. He will make important contributions to theoretical cosmology in the years soon after Einstein's discovery of general relativity.
||1882 – Britain's first electric trams run in east London.
||1889 – Oscar Chisini, Italian mathematician and statistician (d. 1967)
||1893 – Charles Herbert Colvin, American engineer, co-founded the Pioneer Instrument Company (d. 1985)
||1901 – Wilbur R. Franks, Canadian scientist, invented the g-suit (d. 1986)
||1903 – Malcolm Dole, American chemist and academic (d. 1990)
||1903 – John Scarne, American magician and author (d. 1985)
||1904 – George Gamow, Ukrainian-American physicist and cosmologist (d. 1968)
||1909 – George Edward Holbrook, American chemist and engineer (d. 1987)
||1914 – Ward Kimball, American animator, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2002)
||1914 – Robert R. Wilson, American physicist, sculptor, and architect (d. 2000)
||1915 – William Willett, English inventor, founded British Summer Time (b. 1856)
||1923 – Patrick Moore, English astronomer and television host (d. 2012)
||1927 – Ira Remsen, American chemist and academic (b. 1846)


File:Carnivorous_airships_circa_1930-31.jpg|link=Carnivorous dirigible|1931: US Navy says [[Carnivorous dirigible|Carnivorous dirigibles]] cannot be tamed, should be put down.
File:Carnivorous_airships_circa_1930-31.jpg|link=Carnivorous dirigible|1931: US Navy says [[Carnivorous dirigible|Carnivorous dirigibles]] cannot be tamed, should be put down.
||1932 – Ed Roth, American illustrator (d. 2001)
||1934 – Janez Strnad, Slovenian physicist and academic (d. 2015)
||1935 – Bent Larsen, Danish chess player and author (d. 2010)
||1944 – Louis Buchalter, American mob boss (b. 1897)
||1944 – Louis Capone, Italian-American gangster (b. 1896)
||1954 – Mark Chorvinsky, American magician and author (d. 2005)
||1970 – French submarine Eurydice explodes underwater, resulting in the loss of the entire 57-man crew.
||1976 – Walter H. Schottky, Swiss-German physicist and engineer (b. 1886)
||1986 – The Soviet Vega 1 begins returning images of Halley's Comet and the first images of its nucleus.
||1986 – Albert L. Lehninger, American biochemist and academic (b. 1917)
||1993 – Izaak Kolthoff, Dutch chemist and academic (b. 1894)
||1997 – Robert H. Dicke, American physicist and astronomer (b. 1916)
||2000 – Hermann Brück, German-Scottish physicist and astronomer (b. 1905)
||2000 – Ta-You Wu, Chinese physicist and academic (b. 1907)
||2001 – Gerardo Barbero, Argentinian chess player (b. 1961)
||2001 – Fred Lasswell, American cartoonist (b. 1916)
||2006 – John Reynolds Gardiner, American author and engineer (b. 1944)
File:Gary Gygax Gen Con 2007.jpg|link=Gary Gygax (nonfiction)|2008: Game designer [[Gary Gygax (nonfiction)|Gary Gygax]] dies. He co-created the pioneering role-playing game [[Dungeons & Dragons (nonfiction)|Dungeons & Dragons]] (D&D) with Dave Arneson.
File:Gary Gygax Gen Con 2007.jpg|link=Gary Gygax (nonfiction)|2008: Game designer [[Gary Gygax (nonfiction)|Gary Gygax]] dies. He co-created the pioneering role-playing game [[Dungeons & Dragons (nonfiction)|Dungeons & Dragons]] (D&D) with Dave Arneson.


||Hing Tong (d. 4 March 2007) was a leading American mathematician. He is well known for providing the original proof of the Katetov–Tong insertion theorem.
||2011 – Alenush Terian, Iranian astronomer and physicist (b. 1920)
||2011 – Simon van der Meer, Dutch-Swiss physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1925)
||2014 – Jack Kinzler, American engineer (b. 1920)


File:Cantor Parabola and Gnotilus at Athens.jpg|link=Cantor Parabola and Gnotilus at Athens|2016: ''[[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|2016: ''[[Cantor Parabola and Gnotilus at Athens]]'' hailed as "a triumph of art and crime-fighting."
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