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||Wilhelm Maximilian Wundt (b. 31 August 1920) was a German physician, physiologist, philosopher, and professor, known today as one of the founding figures of modern psychology. Wundt, who noted psychology as a science apart from philosophy and biology, was the first person ever to call himself a psychologist. He is widely regarded as the "father of experimental psychology." Pic.
||Wilhelm Maximilian Wundt (b. 31 August 1920) was a German physician, physiologist, philosopher, and professor, known today as one of the founding figures of modern psychology. Wundt, who noted psychology as a science apart from philosophy and biology, was the first person ever to call himself a psychologist. He is widely regarded as the "father of experimental psychology." Pic.


||Albert Heim (d. 31 August 1937) was a Swiss geologist, noted for his three-volume Geologie der Schweiz. Pic.
||1937: Albert Heim dies ... geologist, noted for his three-volume Geologie der Schweiz. Pic.


||1939 – Nazi Germany mounts a false flag attack on the Gleiwitz radio station, creating an excuse to attack Poland the following day, thus starting World War II in Europe.
||1939: Nazi Germany mounts a false flag attack on the Gleiwitz radio station, creating an excuse to attack Poland the following day, thus starting World War II in Europe.


|Janet Beta Accepts Commission|1943: Mathematician and crime-fighter ''[[Janet Beta Accepts Commission|Janet Beta Accepts Commission]]''.
||1944: Roger Dean born ... illustrator and publisher.
 
||1944 – Roger Dean, English illustrator and publisher


File:Stefan Banach.jpg|link=Stefan Banach (nonfiction)|1945: Mathematician and academic [[Stefan Banach (nonfiction)|Stefan Banach]] dies. He was one of the founders of modern functional analysis.
File:Stefan Banach.jpg|link=Stefan Banach (nonfiction)|1945: Mathematician and academic [[Stefan Banach (nonfiction)|Stefan Banach]] dies. He was one of the founders of modern functional analysis.


||1965 – E. E. Smith, American engineer and author (b. 1890)
File:Kurt Gödel.jpg|link=Kurt Gödel (nonfiction)|1950: Mathematician and philosopher [[Kurt Gödel (nonfiction)|Kurt Gödel]] addresses the International Congress of Mathematicians, in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on his work in relativity theory.  


||File:Hello, world in C.svg|link="Hello World!" program (nonfiction)|1974: [["Hello World!" program (nonfiction)|"Hello World" computer program]] from 1974 warns about the coming of [[crimes against mathematical constants]].  
||1965: E. E. Smith dies ... engineer and author.


||Arthur Sard (d. 31 August 1980) was an American mathematician, famous for his work in differential topology and in spline interpolation. His fame stems primarily from Sard's theorem, which says that the set of critical values of a differential function which has sufficiently many derivatives has measure zero.
||1980: Arthur Sard dies ... mathematician, famous for his work in differential topology and in spline interpolation. His fame stems primarily from Sard's theorem, which says that the set of critical values of a differential function which has sufficiently many derivatives has measure zero.


||John Alexander Simpson (d. August 31, 2000) worked as an experimental nuclear, and cosmic ray physicist who was deeply committed to educating the public and political leaders about science and its implications. Pic.
||2000: John Alexander Simpson dies ... worked as an experimental nuclear, and cosmic ray physicist who was deeply committed to educating the public and political leaders about science and its implications. Pic.


||2005 – Joseph Rotblat, Polish-English physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1908)
||2005: Joseph Rotblat dies ... physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1908)


||2006 – Edvard Munch's famous painting The Scream, stolen on August 22, 2004, is recovered in a raid by Norwegian police.
||2006: Edvard Munch's famous painting The Scream, stolen on August 22, 2004, is recovered in a raid by Norwegian police.


||2013 – Jan Camiel Willems, Belgian mathematician and theorist (b. 1939)
||2013: Jan Camiel Willems dies ... mathematician and theorist.


File:The Eel Discovers Time Travel.jpg|link=The Eel Discovers Time Travel|2017: Signed first edition of ''[[The Eel Discovers Time Travel]]'' sells for two and a half million dollars."
File:The Eel Discovers Time Travel.jpg|link=The Eel Discovers Time Travel|2017: Signed first edition of ''[[The Eel Discovers Time Travel]]'' sells for two and a half million dollars."


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