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||1566 – Nostradamus, French astrologer and author (b. 1503)
||1621 – Thomas Harriot, English astronomer, mathematician, and ethnographer (b. 1560)
File:Thomas Savery.gif|link=Thomas Savery (nonfiction)|1698: [[Thomas Savery (nonfiction)|Thomas Savery]] patents the first steam engine.  Savery's patent will force Thomas Newcomen into partnership with him.
File:Thomas Savery.gif|link=Thomas Savery (nonfiction)|1698: [[Thomas Savery (nonfiction)|Thomas Savery]] patents the first steam engine.  Savery's patent will force Thomas Newcomen into partnership with him.
File:Omar Khayyam.jpg|link=Omar Khayyam (nonfiction)|1699: [[Omar Khayyam (nonfiction)|Omar Khayyam]] publishes new class of [[Gnomon algorithm functions]] which detect and prevent [[crimes against mathematical constants]].
File:Omar Khayyam.jpg|link=Omar Khayyam (nonfiction)|1699: [[Omar Khayyam (nonfiction)|Omar Khayyam]] publishes new class of [[Gnomon algorithm functions]] which detect and prevent [[crimes against mathematical constants]].


File:Jean-Jacques Rousseau.jpg|link=Jean-Jacques Rousseau (nonfiction)|1778: Philosopher and author [[Jean-Jacques Rousseau (nonfiction)|Jean-Jacques Rousseau]] dies. His political philosophy influenced the Enlightenment in France and across Europe.
File:Jean-Jacques Rousseau.jpg|link=Jean-Jacques Rousseau (nonfiction)|1778: Philosopher and author [[Jean-Jacques Rousseau (nonfiction)|Jean-Jacques Rousseau]] dies. His political philosophy influenced the Enlightenment in France and across Europe.


File:Telegraph.jpg|link=Electrical telegraph (nonfiction)|1837: The first commercial use of an [[Electrical telegraph (nonfiction)|electrical telegraph]] is successfully demonstrated in London by William Cooke and Charles Wheatstone.
||1822 – Thirty-five slaves are hanged in South Carolina, including Denmark Vesey, after being accused of organizing a slave rebellion.


||Sir William Henry Bragg OM KBE PRS (b. 2 July 1862) was a British physicist, chemist, mathematician and active sportsman who uniquely shared a Nobel Prize with his son William Lawrence Bragg – the 1915 Nobel Prize in Physics: "for their services in the analysis of crystal structure by means of X-rays".
||Sir William Henry Bragg OM KBE PRS (b. 2 July 1862) was a British physicist, chemist, mathematician and active sportsman who uniquely shared a Nobel Prize with his son William Lawrence Bragg – the 1915 Nobel Prize in Physics: "for their services in the analysis of crystal structure by means of X-rays".
||1876 – Harriet Brooks, Canadian physicist and academic (d. 1933)
||1881 – Charles J. Guiteau shoots and fatally wounds U.S. President James Garfield (who would die of complications from his wounds on September 19).


||Boris Caesar Wilhelm Hagelin (b. 2 July 1892) was a Swedish businessman and inventor of encryption machines.
||Boris Caesar Wilhelm Hagelin (b. 2 July 1892) was a Swedish businessman and inventor of encryption machines.
File:Guglielmo Marconi.jpg|link=Guglielmo Marconi (nonfiction)|1897: British-Italian engineer [[Guglielmo Marconi (nonfiction)|Guglielmo Marconi]] obtains a patent for radio in London.
||1900 – The first Zeppelin flight takes place on Lake Constance near Friedrichshafen, Germany.
||1914 – Mário Schenberg, Brazilian physicist and engineer (d. 1990)
||1926 – Émile Coué, French psychologist and pharmacist (b. 1857)
||1934 – The Night of the Long Knives ends with the death of Ernst Röhm.


File:Amelia Earhart standing under nose of her Lockheed Model 10-E Electral.jpg|link=Amelia Earhart (nonfiction)|1937: Pilot and author [[Amelia Earhart (nonfiction)|Amelia Earhart]] disappears. She set many records, wrote best-selling books about her flying experiences, and was instrumental in the formation of The Ninety-Nines, an organization for female pilots.
File:Amelia Earhart standing under nose of her Lockheed Model 10-E Electral.jpg|link=Amelia Earhart (nonfiction)|1937: Pilot and author [[Amelia Earhart (nonfiction)|Amelia Earhart]] disappears. She set many records, wrote best-selling books about her flying experiences, and was instrumental in the formation of The Ninety-Nines, an organization for female pilots.


||Hans Albrecht Bethe (German: [ˈhans ˈalbʁɛçt ˈbeːtə]; July 2, 1906 – March 6, 2005) was a German and American nuclear physicist who, in addition to making important contributions to astrophysics, quantum electrodynamics and solid-state physics, won the 1967 Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on the theory of stellar nucleosynthesis
||Hans Albrecht Bethe (b. July 2, 1906) was a German and American nuclear physicist who, in addition to making important contributions to astrophysics, quantum electrodynamics and solid-state physics, won the 1967 Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on the theory of stellar nucleosynthesis.
 
||1966 – The French military explodes a nuclear test bomb code-named Aldébaran in Moruroa, their first nuclear test in the Pacific.
 
||1988 – Vibert Douglas, Canadian astronomer and astrophysicist (b. 1894)
 
||2002 – Steve Fossett becomes the first person to fly solo around the world nonstop in a balloon.
 
||2013 – Douglas Engelbart, American computer scientist, invented the computer mouse (b. 1925)
 
||2013 – Anthony Llewellyn, Welsh-American chemist, academic, and astronaut (b. 1933)
 
||2014 – Manuel Cardona, Spanish physicist and academic (b. 1934)
 
||2014 – Harold W. Kuhn, American mathematician and academic (b. 1925)


File:Cantor Parabola.jpg|link=Cantor Parabola|2017: Math photographer [[Cantor Parabola]] takes series of pictures through the Enlightenment in France, in honor of [[Jean-Jacques Rousseau (nonfiction)|Jean-Jacques Rousseau]].
File:Cantor Parabola.jpg|link=Cantor Parabola|2017: Math photographer [[Cantor Parabola]] takes series of pictures through the Enlightenment in France, in honor of [[Jean-Jacques Rousseau (nonfiction)|Jean-Jacques Rousseau]].
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