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||AD 51 – Nero, later to become Roman emperor, is given the title ''princeps iuventutis'' (head of the youth).
||AD 51: Nero, later to become Roman emperor, is given the title ''princeps iuventutis'' (head of the youth).


File:Abd al-Rahman al-Sufi.jpg|link=Abd al-Rahman al-Sufi (nonfiction)|928: Astronomer [[Abd al-Rahman al-Sufi (nonfiction)|Abd al-Rahman al-Sufi]] uses [[Gnomon algorithm]] to solve [[crimes against mathematical constants]].
File:Abd al-Rahman al-Sufi.jpg|link=Abd al-Rahman al-Sufi (nonfiction)|928: Astronomer [[Abd al-Rahman al-Sufi (nonfiction)|Abd al-Rahman al-Sufi]] uses [[Gnomon algorithm]] to solve [[crimes against mathematical constants]].


||1394 – Prince Henry the Navigator, Portuguese patron of exploration (d. 1460)
||1394: Prince Henry the Navigator born ... patron of exploration.


||1519 – Hernán Cortés arrives in Mexico in search of the Aztec civilization and its wealth.
||1519: Hernán Cortés arrives in Mexico in search of the Aztec civilization and its wealth.


||1634 – Kazimierz Łyszczyński, Polish philosopher (d. 1689) Executed for writing "De non existentia Dei" (On the non-existence of God)
||1634 – Kazimierz Łyszczyński, Polish philosopher (d. 1689) Executed for writing "De non existentia Dei" (On the non-existence of God)
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||1954 – Mark Chorvinsky, American magician and author (d. 2005)
||1954 – Mark Chorvinsky, American magician and author (d. 2005)


||1970 – French submarine Eurydice explodes underwater, resulting in the loss of the entire 57-man crew.
||1967: Michel Plancherel dies ... mathematician. He worked in the areas of mathematical analysis, mathematical physics and algebra, and is known for the Plancherel theorem in harmonic analysis. Pic.


||1976 – Walter H. Schottky, Swiss-German physicist and engineer (b. 1886)
||1970: French submarine Eurydice explodes underwater, resulting in the loss of the entire 57-man crew.


||1986 – The Soviet Vega 1 begins returning images of Halley's Comet and the first images of its nucleus.
||1976: Walter H. Schottky dies ... physicist and engineer.


||1986 – Albert L. Lehninger, American biochemist and academic (b. 1917)
||1986: The Soviet Vega 1 begins returning images of Halley's Comet and the first images of its nucleus.


||1993 – Izaak Kolthoff, Dutch chemist and academic (b. 1894)
||1986: Albert L. Lehninger dies ... biochemist and academic.


||1997 – Robert H. Dicke, American physicist and astronomer (b. 1916) Robert Henry Dicke (/ˈdɪki/; May 6, 1916 – March 4, 1997) was an American physicist who made important contributions to the fields of astrophysics, atomic physics, cosmology and gravity.
||1993: Izaak Kolthoff dies ... chemist and academic.


||2000 – Hermann Brück, German-Scottish physicist and astronomer (b. 1905)
||1997: Robert H. Dicke dies ... physicist and astronomer ... made important contributions to the fields of astrophysics, atomic physics, cosmology and gravity.


||2000 – Ta-You Wu, Chinese physicist and academic (b. 1907)
||2000: Hermann Brück dies ... physicist and astronomer.


||2001 – Gerardo Barbero, Argentinian chess player (b. 1961)
||2000: Ta-You Wu dies ... physicist and academic.


||2001 – Fred Lasswell, American cartoonist (b. 1916)
||2001: Gerardo Barbero dies ... chess player.


||2006 – John Reynolds Gardiner, American author and engineer (b. 1944)
||2001: Fred Lasswell dies ... cartoonist.
 
||2006: John Reynolds Gardiner dies ... author and engineer.


File:Hing Tong.jpg|link=Hing Tong (nonfiction)|2007: Mathematician [[Hing Tong (nonfiction)|Hing Tong]] dies. He provided the original proof of the Katetov–Tong insertion theorem.
File:Hing Tong.jpg|link=Hing Tong (nonfiction)|2007: Mathematician [[Hing Tong (nonfiction)|Hing Tong]] dies. He provided the original proof of the Katetov–Tong insertion theorem.
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File:Gary Gygax Gen Con 2007.jpg|link=Gary Gygax (nonfiction)|2008: Game designer [[Gary Gygax (nonfiction)|Gary Gygax]] dies. He co-created the pioneering role-playing game [[Dungeons & Dragons (nonfiction)|Dungeons & Dragons]] (D&D) with Dave Arneson.
File:Gary Gygax Gen Con 2007.jpg|link=Gary Gygax (nonfiction)|2008: Game designer [[Gary Gygax (nonfiction)|Gary Gygax]] dies. He co-created the pioneering role-playing game [[Dungeons & Dragons (nonfiction)|Dungeons & Dragons]] (D&D) with Dave Arneson.


||2011 – Alenush Terian, Iranian astronomer and physicist (b. 1920)
||2011: Alenush Terian dies ... astronomer and physicist.


||2011 – Simon van der Meer, Dutch-Swiss physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1925)
||2011: Simon van der Meer dies ... physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate.


||2014 – Jack Kinzler, American engineer (b. 1920)
||2014: Jack Kinzler dies ... engineer.


File:Cantor Parabola and Gnotilus at Athens.jpg|link=Cantor Parabola and Gnotilus at Athens|2016: ''[[Cantor Parabola and Gnotilus at Athens]]'' hailed as "a triumph of art and crime-fighting." [[Cantor Parabola|Parabola]]'s work will influence a generation of [[Mathematician|mathematicians]].
File:Cantor Parabola and Gnotilus at Athens.jpg|link=Cantor Parabola and Gnotilus at Athens|2016: ''[[Cantor Parabola and Gnotilus at Athens]]'' hailed as "a triumph of art and crime-fighting." [[Cantor Parabola|Parabola]]'s work will influence a generation of [[Mathematician|mathematicians]].
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