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||1588 – Mimar Sinan, Ottoman architect and engineer, designed the Sokollu Mehmet Pasha Mosque and Süleymaniye Mosque (b. 1489)
||1588: Mimar Sinan dies ... architect and engineer, designed the Sokollu Mehmet Pasha Mosque and Süleymaniye Mosque.


||1698 – Pierre Louis Maupertuis, French mathematician and philosopher (d. 1759)
||1698: Pierre Louis Maupertuis born ... mathematician and philosopher.


||1791 – Members of the French National Guard under the command of General Lafayette open fire on a crowd of radical Jacobins at the Champ de Mars, Paris, during the French Revolution, killing scores of people.
||1791: Members of the French National Guard under the command of General Lafayette open fire on a crowd of radical Jacobins at the Champ de Mars, Paris, during the French Revolution, killing scores of people.


||1794 – John Roebuck, English chemist and businessman (b. 1718)
||1794: John Roebuck dies ... chemist and businessman.


||1839 – Ephraim Shay, American engineer, invented the Shay locomotive (d. 1916)
||1839: Ephraim Shay born ... engineer, invented the Shay locomotive.


File:Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey by Sir Thomas Lawrence copy.jpg|link=Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey (nonfiction)|1845: [[Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey (nonfiction)|Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey]] dies. His government saw the abolition of slavery in the British Empire.
File:Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey by Sir Thomas Lawrence copy.jpg|link=Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey (nonfiction)|1845: [[Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey (nonfiction)|Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey]] dies. His government saw the abolition of slavery in the British Empire.


|| Archibald Henderson (b. July 17, 1877) was an American professor of mathematics who wrote on a variety of subjects, including drama and history. He is well known for his friendship with George Bernard Shaw. Pic.
||1877: Archibald Henderson born ... professor of mathematics who wrote on a variety of subjects, including drama and history. He is well known for his friendship with George Bernard Shaw. Pic.


||1894 – Georges Lemaître, Belgian priest, astronomer, and cosmologist (d. 1966)
||1894: Georges Lemaître born ... priest, astronomer, and cosmologist.


||1910 – Frank Olson, American chemist and microbiologist (d. 1953)
||1910: Frank Olson born ... chemist and microbiologist.


File:Culvert Origenes.jpg|link=Culvert Origenes|1911: Writer and philosopher [[Culvert Origenes]] criticized for his unpatriotic opinions.
File:Culvert Origenes.jpg|link=Culvert Origenes|1911: Writer and philosopher [[Culvert Origenes]] criticized for his unpatriotic opinions.
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File:The Eel and Radium Jane Arm Wrestling.jpg|link=The Eel and Radium Jane Arm Wrestling|1913:  Signed first edition of ''[[The Eel and Radium Jane Arm Wrestling]]'' sells for eighty thousand dollars (US) at charity auction to benefit victims of [[crimes against mathematical constants]].
File:The Eel and Radium Jane Arm Wrestling.jpg|link=The Eel and Radium Jane Arm Wrestling|1913:  Signed first edition of ''[[The Eel and Radium Jane Arm Wrestling]]'' sells for eighty thousand dollars (US) at charity auction to benefit victims of [[crimes against mathematical constants]].


||Giuseppe Veronese (d. 17 July 1917) was an Italian mathematician. Pic.
||1917: Giuseppe Veronese dies ... mathematician. Pic.
 
||Patrick Alfred Pierce Moran (14 July 1917 – 19 September 1988), commonly known as Pat Moran was an Australian statistician who made significant contributions to probability theory and its application to population and evolutionary genetics. Pic.


File:Gordon Gould.jpg|link=Gordon Gould (nonfiction)|1920: Physicist and academic [[Gordon Gould (nonfiction)|Gordon Gould]] born. He will invent and name the laser.
File:Gordon Gould.jpg|link=Gordon Gould (nonfiction)|1920: Physicist and academic [[Gordon Gould (nonfiction)|Gordon Gould]] born. He will invent and name the laser.


||Heinrich Rubens (d. 17 July 1922) was a German physicist. He is known for his measurements of the energy of black-body radiation which led Max Planck to the discovery of his radiation law. This was the genesis of quantum theory. Pic.
||1922: Heinrich Rubens dies ... physicist. He is known for his measurements of the energy of black-body radiation which led Max Planck to the discovery of his radiation law. This was the genesis of quantum theory. Pic.


||María Josefa Wonenburger Planells (July 17, 1927) was a Galician mathematician who did research in the United States and Canada. She is known for her work on group theory. Pic.
||1927: Mathematician Maria Wonenburger born ... She will work on group theory, the theory of Lie algebras, and the orthogonal group and its corresponding projective group. Pic.


File:Nakaya Ukichiro in 1946.jpg|link=Ukichiro Nakaya (nonfiction)|1929: Physicist and academic [[Ukichiro Nakaya (nonfiction)|Ukichiro Nakaya]] uses [[Gnomon algorithm]] techniques to create artificial snowflakes which detect and prevent [[crimes against mathematical constants]].
File:Nakaya Ukichiro in 1946.jpg|link=Ukichiro Nakaya (nonfiction)|1929: Physicist and academic [[Ukichiro Nakaya (nonfiction)|Ukichiro Nakaya]] uses [[Gnomon algorithm]] techniques to create artificial snowflakes which detect and prevent [[crimes against mathematical constants]].
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File:William James Sidis 1914.jpg|link=William James Sidis (nonfiction)|1944: Mathematician and anthropologist [[William James Sidis (nonfiction)|William James Sidis]] dies. He became famous first for his precocity and later for his eccentricity and withdrawal from public life.  
File:William James Sidis 1914.jpg|link=William James Sidis (nonfiction)|1944: Mathematician and anthropologist [[William James Sidis (nonfiction)|William James Sidis]] dies. He became famous first for his precocity and later for his eccentricity and withdrawal from public life.  


||Henri Farman (26 May 1874 – 17 July 1958) was an Anglo-French aviator and aircraft designer and manufacturer with his brother Maurice Farman. Pic.
||1958: Henri Farman dies ... aviator and aircraft designer and manufacturer with his brother Maurice Farman. Pic.
 
||1962: Nuclear weapons testing: The "Small Boy" test shot Little Feller I becomes the last atmospheric test detonation at the Nevada National Security Site.


||1962 – Nuclear weapons testing: The "Small Boy" test shot Little Feller I becomes the last atmospheric test detonation at the Nevada National Security Site.
||1975: Donald Bruce Gillies dies ... mathematician and computer scientist, known for his work in game theory, computer design, and minicomputer programming environments. Pic.


||1975 – Apollo–Soyuz Test Project: An American Apollo and a Soviet Soyuz spacecraft dock with each other in orbit marking the first such link-up between spacecraft from the two nations.
||1975: Apollo–Soyuz Test Project: An American Apollo and a Soviet Soyuz spacecraft dock with each other in orbit marking the first such link-up between spacecraft from the two nations.


||1980 – Boris Delaunay, Russian mathematician and academic (b. 1890) Boris Nikolaevich Delaunay or Delone (b. March 15, 1890 – July 17, 1980) was one of the first Russian mountain climbers and a Soviet/Russian mathematician, and the father of physicist Nikolai Borisovich Delone. Pic.
||1980: Boris Delaunay dies ... mathematician and academic. Pic.


||Adolph-Andrei Pavlovich Yushkevich (d. 17 July 1993) was a Soviet historian of mathematics, leading expert in medieval mathematics of the East and the work of Leonhard Euler. Pic.
||1993: Adolph-Andrei Pavlovich Yushkevich dies ... historian of mathematics, leading expert in medieval mathematics of the East and the work of Leonhard Euler. Pic.


||Robert Alden Cornog (July 17, 1998), was a physicist and engineer who helped develop the atomic bomb and missile systems from the Snark to the Minuteman. Pic.
||1998: Robert Alden Cornog dies ... physicist and engineer who helped develop the atomic bomb and missile systems from the Snark to the Minuteman. Pic.


||2003 – Walter Zapp, Latvian-Swiss inventor, invented the Minox (b. 1905). Pic.
||2003: Walter Zapp dies ... inventor, invented the Minox. Pic.


||Isabella Grigoryevna Bashmakova (d. 2005) was a Russian historian of mathematics. Pic.
||2005: Isabella Grigoryevna Bashmakova dies ... historian of mathematics. Pic.


File:Bacteriophage Exterior.svg|link=Transdimensional corporation|2015: [[Transdimensional corporation]] spontaneously generates four-dimensional bacteriophage.
File:Bacteriophage Exterior.svg|link=Transdimensional corporation|2015: [[Transdimensional corporation]] spontaneously generates four-dimensional bacteriophage.


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