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|File:Cornelius Drebbel.jpg|link=Cornelius Drebbel (nonfiction)|1601: Submarine inventor [[Cornelius Drebbel (nonfiction)|Cornelius Drebbel]] warns [[The Eel]] "stay out of Dutch waters."
File:Simon Marius.jpg|link=Simon Marius (nonfiction)|1625: Astronomer [[Simon Marius (nonfiction)|Simon Marius]] dies.  He discovered the four largest moons of Jupiter, independently of Galileo Galilei.
File:Simon Marius.jpg|link=Simon Marius (nonfiction)|1625: Astronomer [[Simon Marius (nonfiction)|Simon Marius]] dies.  He discovered the four largest moons of Jupiter, independently of Galileo Galilei.


||1713 – Jean Chardin, French explorer and author (b. 1643)
||1713: Jean Chardin dies ... explorer and author.


File:Nicole-Reine Lepaute.jpg|link=Nicole-Reine Lepaute (nonfiction)|1723: Astronomer and mathematician [[Nicole-Reine Lepaute (nonfiction)|Nicole-Reine Lepaute]] born. She will predict the return of Halley's Comet, calculate the timing of a solar eclipse, and construct a group of catalogs for the stars.
File:Nicole-Reine Lepaute.jpg|link=Nicole-Reine Lepaute (nonfiction)|1723: Astronomer and mathematician [[Nicole-Reine Lepaute (nonfiction)|Nicole-Reine Lepaute]] born. She will predict the return of Halley's Comet, calculate the timing of a solar eclipse, and construct a group of catalogs for the stars.
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File:A la mémoire de J.M. Jacquard.jpg|link=Joseph Marie Jacquard (nonfiction)|1812: [[Joseph Marie Jacquard (nonfiction)|Joseph Marie Jacquard]] has dream which inspires him to build a new type of [[scrying engine]].
File:A la mémoire de J.M. Jacquard.jpg|link=Joseph Marie Jacquard (nonfiction)|1812: [[Joseph Marie Jacquard (nonfiction)|Joseph Marie Jacquard]] has dream which inspires him to build a new type of [[scrying engine]].


||1834 – William John Wills, English surgeon and explorer (d. 1861)
||1834: William John Wills born ... surgeon and explorer.


||1838 – Camille Jordan, French mathematician and academic (d. 1922)
||1838: Camille Jordan born ... mathematician and academic.


||1865 – Julio Garavito Armero, Colombian astronomer, mathematician, and engineer (d. 1920)
||1865: Julio Garavito Armero born ... astronomer, mathematician, and engineer.


||Gino Fano (b. 5 January 1871) 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.
||1871: Gino Fano born ... mathematician, best known as the founder of the finite geometry. He was born in Mantua, in Italy and died in Verona, also in Italy.


||Federigo Enriques (b. 5 January 1871) was an Italian mathematician, now known principally as the first to give a classification of algebraic surfaces in birational geometry, and other contributions in algebraic geometry.
||1971: Federigo Enriques born ... mathematician, now known principally as the first to give a classification of algebraic surfaces in birational geometry, and other contributions in algebraic geometry.


||1886 – Markus Reiner, Israeli physicist and engineer (d. 1976)
||1886: Markus Reiner born ... physicist and engineer.


File:Alfred Dreyfus age 76.jpg|link=Alfred Dreyfus (nonfiction)|1895: French army officer [[Alfred Dreyfus (nonfiction)|Alfred Dreyfus]] is stripped of his rank and sentenced to life imprisonment on Devil's Island.
File:Alfred Dreyfus age 76.jpg|link=Alfred Dreyfus (nonfiction)|1895: French army officer [[Alfred Dreyfus (nonfiction)|Alfred Dreyfus]] is stripped of his rank and sentenced to life imprisonment on Devil's Island.


||1899 – Ezra Otis Kendall, American professor, astronomer and mathematician (b. 1818)
||1899: Ezra Otis Kendall dies ... professor, astronomer and mathematician.
 
||1904: Karl Alfred von Zittel dies ... paleontologist and geologist.


||1904 – Karl Alfred von Zittel, German paleontologist and geologist (b. 1839)
||1903: Harold Gatty born ... pilot and navigator.


||1903 – Harold Gatty, Australian pilot and navigator (d. 1957)
||1906: Kathleen Kenyon born ... archaeologist whose work at Jericho identified it as the oldest known continuously occupied human settlement by excavating to its Stone Age foundation. This evidence pushed back the era of occupation of the mound at Jericho from the Bronze Age and Neolithic to the Natufian culture at the end of the Ice Age (10,000 – 9,000 BC). She established that the city itself spanned more than 3,800 years. Over 100 tombs were discovered at Jericho during excavations (1952-58). Kenyon helped pioneer stratigraphic excavations as a more scientific approach to archaeological digs, a technique she learned while working with Sir Mortimer Wheeler at his major excavation of the Romano-British city of Verulamium (north of London). Pic.


||1909 – Stephen Cole Kleene, American mathematician and computer scientist (d. 1994)
||1909: Stephen Cole Kleene born ... mathematician and computer scientist.


||Maxwell or Max Erich (Eric) Reissner (b. January 5, 1913) was a German-American civil engineer and mathematician. He is remembered by the New York Times (1996) as the "mathematician whose work in applied mechanics helped broaden the theoretical understanding of how solid objects react under stress and led to advances in both civil and aerospace engineering." Pic.
||1913: Maxwell or Max Erich (Eric) Reissner born ... civil engineer and mathematician. He is remembered by the New York Times (1996) as the "mathematician whose work in applied mechanics helped broaden the theoretical understanding of how solid objects react under stress and led to advances in both civil and aerospace engineering." Pic.


||Alexander Dalgarno FRS (b. 5 January 1928) was a British physicist who was a Phillips Professor of Astronomy at Harvard University.
||1928: Alexander Dalgarno born ... physicist who was a Phillips Professor of Astronomy at Harvard University.


File:Umberto Eco 1984.jpg|link=Umberto Eco (nonfiction)|1932: Novelist, literary critic, and philosopher [[Umberto Eco (nonfiction)|Umberto Eco]] born. He will cite James Joyce and Jorge Luis Borges as the two modern authors who will have influenced his work the most.
File:Umberto Eco 1984.jpg|link=Umberto Eco (nonfiction)|1932: Novelist, literary critic, and philosopher [[Umberto Eco (nonfiction)|Umberto Eco]] born. He will cite James Joyce and Jorge Luis Borges as the two modern authors who will have influenced his work the most.


||1933 – Construction of the Golden Gate Bridge begins in San Francisco Bay.
||1933: Construction of the Golden Gate Bridge begins in San Francisco Bay.


||Mathematician Dmitry Semionovitch Mirimanoff (d. 5 January 1945) dies.
||1945: Mathematician Dmitry Semionovitch Mirimanoff dies.


||Joseph Fels Ritt (d. January 5, 1951) was an American mathematician
||1951: Joseph Fels Ritt dies ... mathematician.


||1970 – Max Born, German physicist and mathematician, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1882)
||1970: Max Born dies ... physicist and mathematician, Nobel Prize laureate.


File:Hexahedron.jpg|link=Cube (nonfiction)|1972: [[Cube (nonfiction)|Cube]] deliver lecture on [[Geometry (nonfiction)|geometry]].
File:Hexahedron.jpg|link=Cube (nonfiction)|1972: [[Cube (nonfiction)|Cube]] deliver lecture on [[Geometry (nonfiction)|geometry]].


||1972 – United States President Richard Nixon orders the development of a Space Shuttle program.
||1972: United States President Richard Nixon orders the development of a Space Shuttle program.


||1981 – Harold Urey, American chemist and astronomer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1893)
||1981: Harold Urey dies ... chemist and astronomer, Nobel Prize laureate.


||Nicholas Ulrich Mayall (d. January 5, 1993) was an American observational astronomer. After obtaining his doctorate from the University of California, Berkeley, Mayall worked at the Lick Observatory, where he remained from 1934 to 1960, except for a brief period at MIT's Radiation Laboratory during World War II. During his time at Lick, Mayall contributed to astronomical knowledge of nebulae, supernovae, spiral galaxy internal motions, the redshifts of galaxies, and the origin, age, and size of the Universe. He played a significant role in the planning and construction of Lick's 120-inch (3.0 m) reflector, which represented a major improvement over its earlier 36-inch (0.91 m) telescope. From 1960, Mayall spent 11 years as director of the Kitt Peak National Observatory until his retirement in 1971. Under his leadership KPNO, and the Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory, developed into two of the world's top research observatories, equipped with premier telescopes. Mayall was responsible for the construction of the 4-meter (160 in) Kitt Peak reflector, which was named after him.  Pic. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicholas_Mayall
||1993: Nicholas Ulrich Mayall dies ... observational astronomer. After obtaining his doctorate from the University of California, Berkeley, Mayall worked at the Lick Observatory, where he remained from 1934 to 1960, except for a brief period at MIT's Radiation Laboratory during World War II. During his time at Lick, Mayall contributed to astronomical knowledge of nebulae, supernovae, spiral galaxy internal motions, the redshifts of galaxies, and the origin, age, and size of the Universe. He played a significant role in the planning and construction of Lick's 120-inch (3.0 m) reflector, which represented a major improvement over its earlier 36-inch (0.91 m) telescope. From 1960, Mayall spent 11 years as director of the Kitt Peak National Observatory until his retirement in 1971. Under his leadership KPNO, and the Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory, developed into two of the world's top research observatories, equipped with premier telescopes. Mayall was responsible for the construction of the 4-meter (160 in) Kitt Peak reflector, which was named after him.  Pic. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicholas_Mayall


||2004 – Norman Heatley, English biologist and chemist, co-developed penicillin (b. 1911)
||2004: Norman Heatley dies ... biologist and chemist, co-developed penicillin.


||2005 – Eris, the most massive and second-largest known dwarf planet in the Solar System, is discovered by the team of Michael E. Brown, Chad Trujillo, and David L. Rabinowitz using images originally taken on October 21, 2003, at the Palomar Observatory.
||2005: Eris, the most massive and second-largest known dwarf planet in the Solar System, is discovered by the team of Michael E. Brown, Chad Trujillo, and David L. Rabinowitz using images originally taken on October 21, 2003, at the Palomar Observatory.


||2014 – A launch of the communication satellite GSAT-14 aboard the GSLV MK.II D5 marks the first successful flight of an Indian cryogenic engine.
||2014: A launch of the communication satellite GSAT-14 aboard the GSLV MK.II D5 marks the first successful flight of an Indian cryogenic engine.


||Rudolf Haag (d. 5 January 2016) was a German physicist. He was best known for his contributions to the algebraic formulation of axiomatic quantum field theory (QFT), namely the Haag–Kastler axioms, and a central no-go theorem in QFT, Haag's theorem, which demonstrates the nonexistence of a unitary time-evolution operator in the interaction picture. Pic.
||2016: Rudolf Haag dies ... physicist. He was best known for his contributions to the algebraic formulation of axiomatic quantum field theory (QFT), namely the Haag–Kastler axioms, and a central no-go theorem in QFT, Haag's theorem, which demonstrates the nonexistence of a unitary time-evolution operator in the interaction picture. Pic.


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  • 1625: Astronomer Simon Marius dies. He discovered the four largest moons of Jupiter, independently of Galileo Galilei.

    1625: Astronomer Simon Marius dies. He discovered the four largest moons of Jupiter, independently of Galileo Galilei.

  • 1723: Astronomer and mathematician Nicole-Reine Lepaute born. She will predict the return of Halley's Comet, calculate the timing of a solar eclipse, and construct a group of catalogs for the stars.

    1723: Astronomer and mathematician Nicole-Reine Lepaute born. She will predict the return of Halley's Comet, calculate the timing of a solar eclipse, and construct a group of catalogs for the stars.

  • 1812: Joseph Marie Jacquard has dream which inspires him to build a new type of scrying engine.

    1812: Joseph Marie Jacquard has dream which inspires him to build a new type of scrying engine.

  • 1895: French army officer Alfred Dreyfus is stripped of his rank and sentenced to life imprisonment on Devil's Island.

    1895: French army officer Alfred Dreyfus is stripped of his rank and sentenced to life imprisonment on Devil's Island.

  • 1932: Novelist, literary critic, and philosopher Umberto Eco born. He will cite James Joyce and Jorge Luis Borges as the two modern authors who will have influenced his work the most.

    1932: Novelist, literary critic, and philosopher Umberto Eco born. He will cite James Joyce and Jorge Luis Borges as the two modern authors who will have influenced his work the most.

  • 1972: Cube deliver lecture on geometry.

    1972: Cube deliver lecture on geometry.

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