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||3114 BC – The Mesoamerican Long Count calendar, used by several pre-Columbian Mesoamerican civilizations, notably the Maya, begins.
||3114 BC – The Mesoamerican Long Count calendar, used by several pre-Columbian Mesoamerican civilizations, notably the Maya, begins.


||Nicholas of Cusa (d. 11 August 1464), also referred to as Nicholas of Kues and Nicolaus Cusanus (/kjuːˈseɪnəs/), was a German philosopher, theologian, jurist, and astronomer.  
||Nicholas of Cusa (d. 11 August 1464), also referred to as Nicholas of Kues and Nicolaus Cusanus (/kjuːˈseɪnəs/), was a German philosopher, theologian, jurist, and astronomer. Pic.


File:Pedro Nunes.png|link=Pedro Nunes (nonfiction)|1578: Mathematician, cosmographer, and academic [[Pedro Nunes (nonfiction)|Pedro Nunes]] dies. One of the greatest mathematicians of his time, he is best known for his mathematical approach to navigation and cartography.
File:Pedro Nunes.png|link=Pedro Nunes (nonfiction)|1578: Mathematician, cosmographer, and academic [[Pedro Nunes (nonfiction)|Pedro Nunes]] dies. One of the greatest mathematicians of his time, he is best known for his mathematical approach to navigation and cartography.


||1673 – Richard Mead, English physician and astrologer (d. 1754)
||1673: Richard Mead, English physician and astrologer (d. 1754). Pic.


||Cato Maximilian Guldberg (b. 11 August 1836) was a Norwegian mathematician and chemist.
||1799: French geologist and paleontologist. He settled in Prague (1832), at first as an engineer. While surveying the proposed route for a horse-drawn railway, he became interested in the local fossil-bearing rocks there. From 1840, he turned to the study of these fossils in the strata of the central Bohemian basin. In his lifetime, he gathered some 3500 species of graptolites, brachiopoda, mollusca, trilobites and fishes, showing a wide variety of life forms in the Early Paleozoic era. (The Paleozoic era spanned 540-245 million years ago.) He meticulously recorded his findings in Système silurien du centre de la Bohême, which remains a fine reference work. The first volume was published in 1852, and was followed by 20 more in his lifetime. He opposed Darwin's theory of evolution, instead advocating the theory of catastrophes. Pic.


||1854 – Macedonio Melloni, Italian physicist and academic (b. 1798)
||Cato Maximilian Guldberg (b. 11 August 1836) was a Norwegian mathematician and chemist. Pic.


||1860 – Ottó Bláthy, Hungarian engineer and chess player (d. 1939)
||1854 – Macedonio Melloni, Italian physicist and academic (b. 1798). Pic.


||1885 – Stephen Butterworth, English physicist and engineer (d. 1958)
||1860 – Ottó Bláthy, Hungarian engineer and chess player (d. 1939). Pic.


||Egon Sharpe Pearson, CBE FRS (b. 11 August 1895) was one of three children and the son of Karl Pearson and, like his father, a leading British statistician.
||1885 – Stephen Butterworth, English physicist and engineer (d. 1958). No pic.


||1892 – Enrico Betti, Italian mathematician and academic (b. 1813) Enrico Betti (d. 11 August 1892) was an Italian mathematician, now remembered mostly for his 1871 paper on topology that led to the later naming after him of the Betti numbers.
||Egon Sharpe Pearson, CBE FRS (b. 11 August 1895) was one of three children and the son of Karl Pearson and, like his father, a leading British statistician. Pic not Wikipedia: http://apprendre-math.info/anglais/historyDetail.htm?id=Pearson_Egon
 
||1892: Enrico Betti dies Italian mathematician and academic ... now remembered mostly for his 1871 paper on topology that led to the later naming after him of the Betti numbers. Pic.


||1905: Erwin Chargaff born ... was an Austro-Hungarian biochemist who immigrated to the United States during the Nazi era and was a professor of biochemistry at Columbia University medical school. Through careful experimentation, Chargaff discovered two rules that helped lead to the discovery of the double helix structure of DNA. Pic.
||1905: Erwin Chargaff born ... was an Austro-Hungarian biochemist who immigrated to the United States during the Nazi era and was a professor of biochemistry at Columbia University medical school. Through careful experimentation, Chargaff discovered two rules that helped lead to the discovery of the double helix structure of DNA. Pic.
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||1942 – Actress Hedy Lamarr and composer George Antheil receive a patent for a Frequency-hopping spread spectrum communication system that later became the basis for modern technologies in wireless telephones and Wi-Fi.
||1942 – Actress Hedy Lamarr and composer George Antheil receive a patent for a Frequency-hopping spread spectrum communication system that later became the basis for modern technologies in wireless telephones and Wi-Fi.


||Robert Williams Wood (May 2, 1868 – August 11, 1955) was an American physicist and inventor. He is often cited as being a pivotal contributor to the field of optics and a pioneer of infrared and ultraviolet photography.  
||Robert Williams Wood (May 2, 1868 – August 11, 1955) was an American physicist and inventor. He is often cited as being a pivotal contributor to the field of optics and a pioneer of infrared and ultraviolet photography. Pic.


||1956 – Jackson Pollock, American painter (b. 1912)
||1956 – Jackson Pollock, American painter (b. 1912)

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  • 1578: Mathematician, cosmographer, and academic Pedro Nunes dies. One of the greatest mathematicians of his time, he is best known for his mathematical approach to navigation and cartography.

    1578: Mathematician, cosmographer, and academic Pedro Nunes dies. One of the greatest mathematicians of his time, he is best known for his mathematical approach to navigation and cartography.

  • 1921: Mathematician and computer scientist Tom Kilburn born. Over the course of a productive 30-year career, he will be involved in the development of five computers of great historical significance.

    1921: Mathematician and computer scientist Tom Kilburn born. Over the course of a productive 30-year career, he will be involved in the development of five computers of great historical significance.

  • 1974: Graphic designer and typographer Jan Tschichold dies. He was a leading advocate of Modernist design, but later condemn Modernist design in general as being authoritarian and inherently fascistic.

    1974: Graphic designer and typographer Jan Tschichold dies. He was a leading advocate of Modernist design, but later condemn Modernist design in general as being authoritarian and inherently fascistic.

  • 1995: Mathematician and logician Alonzo Church dies. He made major contributions to mathematical logic and the foundations of theoretical computer science.

    1995: Mathematician and logician Alonzo Church dies. He made major contributions to mathematical logic and the foundations of theoretical computer science.

  • 2003: Mathematician and academic Armand Borel dies. He worked in algebraic topology, in the theory of Lie groups, and was one of the creators of the contemporary theory of linear algebraic groups.

    2003: Mathematician and academic Armand Borel dies. He worked in algebraic topology, in the theory of Lie groups, and was one of the creators of the contemporary theory of linear algebraic groups.

  • 2017: Pin Man #1 is "a work in progress," says author Karl Jones. "I have characters sketches, and cover art, but I'm still thinking about the stories."

    2017: Pin Man #1 is "a work in progress," says author Karl Jones. "I have characters sketches, and cover art, but I'm still thinking about the stories."

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