1975 Birthday Danica McKellar, born in LaJolla, California, actress, author, mathematician, appeared on 'The Wonder Years' television show, wrote, 'Math Doesn't Suck' and 'Kiss My Math' 1970 Event Bomb kills 1 at University of Wisconsin's Army Math Research Center in Madison 1920 Death Srinivasa Ramanujan, Indian math genius (Notebooks), dies at 32 1914 Birthday Martin Gardner, Scientific American math and puzzles columnist 1899 Birthday Otto E Neugebauer, Austrian/US math historian 1864 Death Charles-Julien Brianchon, math (Brianchon's theorem), dies at 80 1829 Birthday Moritz B Cantor, German math historian 1798 Birthday Karl von Staudt, German math professor, projective geometrician 1581 Event Leiden University names Snellius math professor
