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File:Johannes Trithemius.jpg|link=Johannes Trithemius (nonfiction)|1499: Polymath [[Johannes Trithemius (nonfiction)|Johannes Trithemius]] uses [[Gnomon algorithm functions]] to generate new class of [[cryptographic numen]].
File:Johannes Trithemius.jpg|link=Johannes Trithemius (nonfiction)|1499: Polymath [[Johannes Trithemius (nonfiction)|Johannes Trithemius]] uses [[Gnomon algorithm functions]] to generate new class of [[cryptographic numen]].


||1512 – Gerardus Mercator, Flemish mathematician, cartographer, and philosopher (d. 1594)
||1512: Gerardus Mercator born ... mathematician, cartographer, and philosopher.


File:William Oughtred.jpg|link=William Oughtred (nonfiction)|1574: Mathematician [[William Oughtred (nonfiction)|William Oughtred]] born. He will invent the slide rule in 1622.
File:William Oughtred.jpg|link=William Oughtred (nonfiction)|1574: Mathematician [[William Oughtred (nonfiction)|William Oughtred]] born. He will invent the slide rule in 1622.
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File:Didacus automaton profile.jpg|link=Didacus automaton (nonfiction)|1640: [[Didacus automaton (nonfiction)|Didacus automaton]] attends and records lecture by [[William Oughtred (nonfiction)|William Oughtred]], which it will later use to detect and prevent [[crimes against mathematical constants]].
File:Didacus automaton profile.jpg|link=Didacus automaton (nonfiction)|1640: [[Didacus automaton (nonfiction)|Didacus automaton]] attends and records lecture by [[William Oughtred (nonfiction)|William Oughtred]], which it will later use to detect and prevent [[crimes against mathematical constants]].


||1779 – Benjamin Gompertz, English mathematician and statistician (d. 1865)
||1779: Benjamin Gompertz born ... mathematician and statistician.


||1794 – Jacques Babinet, French physicist, mathematician, and astronomer (d. 1872)
||1794: Jacques Babinet born ... physicist, mathematician, and astronomer.


||1815 – Franz Mesmer, German physician and astrologist (b. 1734)
||1815: Franz Mesmer dies ... physician and astrologist.


File:Pierre-Simon, marquis de Laplace by Guérin.jpg|link=Pierre-Simon Laplace (nonfiction)|1827: Mathematician and astronomer [[Pierre-Simon Laplace (nonfiction)|Pierre-Simon Laplace]] dies. He made important contributions to mathematics, statistics, physics and astronomy.
File:Pierre-Simon, marquis de Laplace by Guérin.jpg|link=Pierre-Simon Laplace (nonfiction)|1827: Mathematician and astronomer [[Pierre-Simon Laplace (nonfiction)|Pierre-Simon Laplace]] dies. He made important contributions to mathematics, statistics, physics and astronomy.


||Alessandro Giuseppe Antonio Anastasio Volta (d. 5 March 1827) was an Italian physicist, chemist, and a pioneer of electricity and power, who is credited as the inventor of the electrical battery and the discoverer of methane.  
||1827: Alessandro Giuseppe Antonio Anastasio Volta dies ... physicist, chemist, and a pioneer of electricity and power, who is credited as the inventor of the electrical battery and the discoverer of methane.  


||1829 – John Adams, English sailor and mutineer (b. 1766)
||1829: John Adams dies ... sailor and mutineer.


File:Samuel Colt.jpg|link=Samuel Colt (nonfiction)|1836: Inventor [[Samuel Colt (nonfiction)|Samuel Colt]] patents the first production-model revolver, the .34-caliber.
File:Samuel Colt.jpg|link=Samuel Colt (nonfiction)|1836: Inventor [[Samuel Colt (nonfiction)|Samuel Colt]] patents the first production-model revolver, the .34-caliber.


||1862 – Siegbert Tarrasch, German chess player and theoretician (d. 1934)
||1862: Siegbert Tarrasch born ... chess player and theoretician.


||Karl Eugen Guthe (b. 5 March 1866) was a German-born American academic and physicist, notable for being the first Dean of the Graduate Department at the University of Michigan. Pic.
||1866: Karl Eugen Guthe born ... academic and physicist, notable for being the first Dean of the Graduate Department at the University of Michigan. Pic.


||1872 – George Westinghouse patents the air brake.
||1872: George Westinghouse patents the air brake.


||Sergei Natanovich Bernstein (b. 5 March 1880) was a Russian and Soviet mathematician of Jewish origin known for contributions to partial differential equations, differential geometry, probability theory, and approximation theory. Pic.
||1880: Sergei Natanovich Bernstein born ... mathematician of Jewish origin known for contributions to partial differential equations, differential geometry, probability theory, and approximation theory. Pic.


||Pauline Sperry (b. March 5, 1885) was an American mathematician. Sperry was an active Quaker and involved in various humanitarian and political causes. At the height of McCarthyism, the Board of Regents required university employees to sign a loyalty oath. Sperry, Hans Lewy, and others who refused were barred from teaching without pay in 1950. In the case Tolman v. Underhill, the California Supreme Court ruled in 1952 the loyalty oath unconstitutional and reinstated those who refused to sign. Sperry was reinstated with back pay and the title emeritus associate professor. Pic.
||1885: Pauline Sperry born ... mathematician. Sperry was an active Quaker and involved in various humanitarian and political causes. At the height of McCarthyism, the Board of Regents required university employees to sign a loyalty oath. Sperry, Hans Lewy, and others who refused were barred from teaching without pay in 1950. In the case Tolman v. Underhill, the California Supreme Court ruled in 1952 the loyalty oath unconstitutional and reinstated those who refused to sign. Sperry was reinstated with back pay and the title emeritus associate professor. Pic.


||Otto Haupt (born 5 March 1887) was a German Mathematician. Pic.
||1887: Otto Haupt born ... Mathematician. Pic.


||1900 – Johanna Langefeld, German guard and supervisor of three Nazi concentration camps (d. 1974)
||1900: Johanna Langefeld born ... guard and supervisor of three Nazi concentration camps.


||Eugène-Anatole Demarçay (d. 5 March 1903) was a French chemist. He studied under Jean-Baptiste Dumas. During an experiment, an explosion destroyed the sight in one of his eyes. He isolated the element europium in 1896; in 1898 he used his skills of spectroscopy to help Marie Curie confirm that she had discovered the element radium. Pic.
||1903: Eugène-Anatole Demarçay dies ... chemist. He studied under Jean-Baptiste Dumas. During an experiment, an explosion destroyed the sight in one of his eyes. He isolated the element europium in 1896; in 1898 he used his skills of spectroscopy to help Marie Curie confirm that she had discovered the element radium. Pic.


||Charles Eryl Wynn-Williams (b. 5 March 1903), was a Welsh physicist, noted for his research on electronic instrumentation for use in nuclear physics. His work on the scale-of-two counter contributed to the development of the modern computer.
||1903: Charles Eryl Wynn-Williams born ... physicist, noted for his research on electronic instrumentation for use in nuclear physics. His work on the scale-of-two counter contributed to the development of the modern computer.


||1912 – Italo-Turkish War: Italian forces are the first to use airships for military purposes, employing them for reconnaissance behind Turkish lines.
||1912: Italo-Turkish War: Italian forces are the first to use airships for military purposes, employing them for reconnaissance behind Turkish lines.


||Professor He Zehui (b. March 5, 1914) was a Chinese nuclear physicist who worked to develop and exploit nuclear physics in Germany and China. Pic.
||1914: Professor He Zehui born ... nuclear physicist who worked to develop and exploit nuclear physics in Germany and China. Pic.


||Laurent-Moïse Schwartz (b. 5 March 1915) was a French mathematician. He pioneered the theory of distributions, which gives a well-defined meaning to objects such as the Dirac delta function. He was awarded the Fields Medal in 1950 for his work on the theory of distributions.  
||1915: Laurent-Moïse Schwartz born ... mathematician. He pioneered the theory of distributions, which gives a well-defined meaning to objects such as the Dirac delta function. He was awarded the Fields Medal in 1950 for his work on the theory of distributions.  


||1925 – Johan Jensen, Danish mathematician and engineer (b. 1859)
||1925: Johan Jensen dies ... mathematician and engineer.


File:Lev Schnirelmann.jpg|link=Lev Schnirelmann (nonfiction)|1926: Mathematician [[Lev Schnirelmann (nonfiction)|Lev Schnirelmann]] reverse-engineers [[Didacus automaton (nonfiction)|Didacus automaton]], retrieves complete copy of lecture by [[William Oughtred (nonfiction)|William Oughtred]].
File:Lev Schnirelmann.jpg|link=Lev Schnirelmann (nonfiction)|1926: Mathematician [[Lev Schnirelmann (nonfiction)|Lev Schnirelmann]] reverse-engineers [[Didacus automaton (nonfiction)|Didacus automaton]], retrieves complete copy of lecture by [[William Oughtred (nonfiction)|William Oughtred]].
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||1990: Edgar Raymond Lorch dies ... mathematician. Described by The New York Times as "a leader in the development of modern mathematics theory" Pic: http://www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/PictDisplay/Lorch_Ray.html
||1990: Edgar Raymond Lorch dies ... mathematician. Described by The New York Times as "a leader in the development of modern mathematics theory" Pic: http://www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/PictDisplay/Lorch_Ray.html
||1993: James Wallace Givens, Jr. dies ... mathematician and a pioneer in computer science. He is the eponym of the well-known Givens rotations.  Pic: https://www.siam.org/About-SIAM/Leadership


File:Joseph Weizenbaum.jpg|link=Joseph Weizenbaum (nonfiction)|2008:  Computer scientist [[Joseph Weizenbaum (nonfiction)|Joseph Weizenbaum]] dies. He is considered one of the fathers of modern artificial intelligence.
File:Joseph Weizenbaum.jpg|link=Joseph Weizenbaum (nonfiction)|2008:  Computer scientist [[Joseph Weizenbaum (nonfiction)|Joseph Weizenbaum]] dies. He is considered one of the fathers of modern artificial intelligence.

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