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File:Julius_Caesar_-_Tusculum_portrait.jpg|link=Julius Caesar (nonfiction)|44 BC: [[Julius Caesar (nonfiction)|Julius Caesar]], Dictator of the Roman Republic, is stabbed to death by Marcus Junius Brutus, Gaius Cassius Longinus, Decimus Junius Brutus, and several other Roman senators on the Ides of March.
File:Julius_Caesar_-_Tusculum_portrait.jpg|link=Julius Caesar (nonfiction)|44 BC: [[Julius Caesar (nonfiction)|Julius Caesar]], Dictator of the Roman Republic, is stabbed to death by Marcus Junius Brutus, Gaius Cassius Longinus, Decimus Junius Brutus, and several other Roman senators on the Ides of March.


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||1860: Waldemar Haffkine born ... bacteriologist and microbiologist. Pic.
||1860: Waldemar Haffkine born ... bacteriologist and microbiologist. Pic.


||1866: Johan Vaaler born ... inventor, invented the Paper clip.
||1866: Johan Vaaler born ... inventor, invented the paper clip. Pic.


||1868: Mathematician Grace Chisholm Young born. She will contribute measurable functions to the Denjoy–Young–Saks theorem, which gives some possibilities for the Dini derivatives of a function that hold almost everywhere. Pic.
||1868: Mathematician Grace Chisholm Young born. She will contribute measurable functions to the Denjoy–Young–Saks theorem, which gives some possibilities for the Dini derivatives of a function that hold almost everywhere. Pic.
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File:James Joseph Sylvester.jpg|link=James Joseph Sylvester (nonfiction)|1897: Mathematician and academic [[James Joseph Sylvester (nonfiction)|James Joseph Sylvester]] dies. He made fundamental contributions to matrix theory, invariant theory, number theory, partition theory, and combinatorics.
File:James Joseph Sylvester.jpg|link=James Joseph Sylvester (nonfiction)|1897: Mathematician and academic [[James Joseph Sylvester (nonfiction)|James Joseph Sylvester]] dies. He made fundamental contributions to matrix theory, invariant theory, number theory, partition theory, and combinatorics.


||1898: Henry Bessemer dies ... engineer and businessman.
||1898: Henry Bessemer dies ... engineer and businessman ... his steel-making process would become the most important technique for making steel in the nineteenth century for almost one hundred years. Pic.


File:Elwin_Bruno_Christoffel.jpg|link=Elwin Bruno Christoffel (nonfiction)|1900: Mathematician and physicist [[Elwin Bruno Christoffel (nonfiction)|Elwin Bruno Christoffel]] dies. He introduced fundamental concepts of differential geometry, opening the way for the development of tensor calculus, later providing the mathematical basis for general relativity.
File:Elwin_Bruno_Christoffel.jpg|link=Elwin Bruno Christoffel (nonfiction)|1900: Mathematician and physicist [[Elwin Bruno Christoffel (nonfiction)|Elwin Bruno Christoffel]] dies. He introduced fundamental concepts of differential geometry, opening the way for the development of tensor calculus, later providing the mathematical basis for general relativity.
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||1924: Aldo Andreotti born ... mathematician who worked on algebraic geometry, on the theory of functions of several complex variables and on partial differential operators. Notably he proved the Andreotti–Frankel theorem, the Andreotti–Grauert theorem, the Andreotti–Vesentini theorem and introduced, jointly with François Norguet, the Andreotti–Norguet integral representation for functions of several complex variables. Pic.
||1924: Aldo Andreotti born ... mathematician who worked on algebraic geometry, on the theory of functions of several complex variables and on partial differential operators. Notably he proved the Andreotti–Frankel theorem, the Andreotti–Grauert theorem, the Andreotti–Vesentini theorem and introduced, jointly with François Norguet, the Andreotti–Norguet integral representation for functions of several complex variables. Pic.


||1930: Zhores Alferov, Belarusian-Russian physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (alive August 2018).
||1930: Zhores Alferov, Belarusian-Russian physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (alive August 2018). Pic.


||1930: Martin Karplus born ... chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (alive August 2018).
||1930: Martin Karplus born ... chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (alive August 2018). Pic.


||1951: John S. Paraskevopoulos dies ... astronomer and academic.
||1951: John S. Paraskevopoulos dies ... astronomer and academic. His goal -- building a large telescope in Greece -- was never realized, due to the war between Greece and Turkey. Pic.


||1960: Eduard Čech dies ... mathematician born in Stračov (then Bohemia, Austria-Hungary, now Czech Republic). His research interests included projective differential geometry and topology. He is especially known for the technique known as Stone–Čech compactification (in topology) and the notion of Čech cohomology. Pic.
||1960: Eduard Čech dies ... mathematician born in Stračov (then Bohemia, Austria-Hungary, now Czech Republic). His research interests included projective differential geometry and topology. He is especially known for the technique known as Stone–Čech compactification (in topology) and the notion of Čech cohomology. Pic.
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||1985: The first Internet domain name is registered (symbolics.com).
||1985: The first Internet domain name is registered (symbolics.com).


||1988: Dmitri Polyakov dies ... general and spy.
||1988: Dmitri Polyakov dies ... general and spy. Polyakov revealed Soviet secrets to the FBI and the Central Intelligence Agency. Pic search good: https://www.google.com/search?q=dmitri+polyakov


||1993: Gustav Hedlund dies ... mathematician, was one of the founders of symbolic and topological dynamics. Pic.
||1993: Gustav Hedlund dies ... mathematician, was one of the founders of symbolic and topological dynamics. Pic.
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||2004: Bill Pickering dies ... scientist and engineer ... headed the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) for 22 years. Pickering was a senior NASA luminary who pioneered the exploration of space. Pic.
||2004: Bill Pickering dies ... scientist and engineer ... headed the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) for 22 years. Pickering was a senior NASA luminary who pioneered the exploration of space. Pic.


||2004: John Pople dies ... chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate.
||2004: John Pople dies ... chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic.


||2006: George Whitelaw Mackey dies ... mathematician. Mackey was one of the pioneer workers in the intersection of quantum logic, the theory of infinite-dimensional unitary representations of groups, the theory of operator algebras and noncommutative geometry. Pic.
||2006: George Whitelaw Mackey dies ... mathematician. Mackey was one of the pioneer workers in the intersection of quantum logic, the theory of infinite-dimensional unitary representations of groups, the theory of operator algebras and noncommutative geometry. Pic.


||2013: James Bonk dies ... chemist and academic.
||2013: James Bonk dies ... chemist and academic. Bonk taught chemistry courses for over 50 years, primarily at Duke University; he also wrote his own textbooks and laboratory manuals. Pic search good: https://www.google.com/search?q=james+bonk


||2015: Valentine Joseph dies ... mathematician, noted for his contributions to education. Pic.
||2015: Valentine Joseph dies ... mathematician, noted for his contributions to education. Pic.

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