2015 Event Nobel prize winning mathematician John Forbes Nash, Jr., 86, and his wife Alicia, 82, die after an accident in New Jersey in which their taxi lost control 2005 Death Serge Lang, Mathematician 1997 Death Alexander Oppenheim, mathematician, dies at 94 1996 Death Paul Erdos, mathematician, dies of heart attack at 83 1996 Death Michael Gerzon, mathematician, dies at 50 1996 Death Piet Hein, architect/poet/mathematician/inventor, dies at 80 1996 Death Gustave Solomon, mathematician, dies at 65 1995 Death Alonzo Church, American Mathematician 1994 Death Brian Hartley, mathematician, dies at 55 1994 Death Charlotte Auerbach, computer pioneer/mathematician, dies at 84 1994 Death John Britton, English Mathematician 1994 Death Stephen Cole Kleene, mathematician (Regular Expressions), dies at 85 1993 Event English mathematician Andrew Wiles proves last theorem of Fermat 1993 Death Max A. Zorn, American Mathematician 1992 Death Leech, mathematician, dies 1990 Death Hans Freudenthal, mathematician/director OW&OC (F Institution), dies 1989 Death Frank Adams, British Mathematician 1984 Death Stanislaw Ulam, Polish Mathematician 1983 Death Mirsky, mathematician, dies 1977 Death Marston Morse, American Mathematician 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' 1974 Death Jacob Bronowsky, British mathematician/cultural historian, dies at 66 1974 Death Abraham Robinson, German Mathematician 1972 Death Richard Courant, German/US mathematician, dies at 84 1970 Death Rudolph Carnap, German philosopher/mathematician, dies at 79 1966 Death Luitzen [Bertus] Brouwers, Dutch mathematician, dies at 85 1965 Death Eduard J Dijksterhuis, mathematician (Archimedes), dies at 72 1965 Death William H Kilpatrick, U.S. mathematician/philosopher, dies at 93 1964 Death Norbert Wiener, U.S. mathematician (cybernetics), dies at 69 1963 Death Jacques Hadamard, French mathematician (Prime Numbers), dies at 97 1962 Death Ronald Fisher, English Mathematician 1960 Death Oswald Veblin, mathematician 1959 Death Renato Caccioppoli, Italian mathematician/pianist, suicide at 55 1957 Death Leo Perutz, writer, wrote 11 novels, mathematician, emigrated to Palestine during Nazi Anschluss, 1938, dies in Bad Ischi, Austria 1956 Death Gerrit Mannoury, mathematician/philosopher, dies at 88 1955 Death Hermann Weyl, German Mathematician 1955 Birthday John Nunn, born in London, England, champion chess player, chess writer, publisher, mathematician, once ranked among the world's top ten, two-time champion in chess problem solving 1954 Death Alan M Turing, British mathematician (Turing), commits suicide at 41 1954 Death Julian Lowell Coolidge, mathematician (Study-Segre school), dies at 80 1951 Birthday Edward Witten, American Mathematician 1947 Death Alfred North Whitehead, English Mathematician 1947 Death Hardy, mathematician, dies 1947 Death G. H. Hardy, British Mathematician 1947 Death Godfrey Harold Hardy, British Mathematician 1946 Death James Jeans, English physicist/mathematician/astronomer, dies at 69 1945 Birthday Michael Gerzon, mathematician 1945 Death Stefan Banach, Polish Mathematician 1944 Death George D Birkhoff, U.S. mathematician (Aesthetic measure), dies at 60 1943 Death David Hilbert, German mathematician (Hilbert Space), dies at 81 1941 Death Friedrich Angel, German mathematician (group theory), dies at 79 1939 Death Dickstein, mathematician, dies 1939 Birthday Brian Hartley, mathematician 1939 Death [Carl L] Ferdinand von Lindemann, German mathematician, dies at 86 1936 Death Karl Pearson, mathematician, dies 1935 Birthday Ronald Graham, American Mathematician 1935 Birthday Hugo Brandt Corstius, Dutch essayist/mathematician 1933 Death Paul, Prudent, Painleve, French mathematician/minister/premier, dies 1933 Death Alfred Her, Hungarian mathematician, dies at 47 1932 Death Giuseppe Peano, mathematician, dies 1931 Birthday Peter Swinnereton-Dyer, mathematician 1931 Death William Ernst Johnson, British mathematician, dies 1930 Birthday Frank Adams, British Mathematician 1929 Death ... Shatunovsky, mathematician, dies 1928 Death Steinitz, mathematician, dies 1928 Birthday John Forbes Nash, American Mathematician 1927 Birthday John Britton, English Mathematician 1927 Birthday Peter Swinnereton-Dyer, mathematician 1927 Birthday Serge Lang, Mathematician 1925 Death Felix Klein, German mathematician (Riemannsche Flachen), dies at 76 1925 Death Carl G Neumann, German mathematician/physicist, dies at 92 1924 Birthday Benoit Mandelbrot, Warsaw Poland, mathematician, proved Zipf's law 1924 Death Pavel S "Paul" Urysohn, Russian mathematician, drowns at 26 1922 Birthday Iannis Xenakis, Braila Romania, composer/architect/mathematician 1920 Birthday Georges Papy, Belgian mathematician, Numbers Game 1920 Death Moritz B Cantor, German mathematician, dies at 90 1918 Birthday Abraham Robinson, German Mathematician 1918 Death Georg F L P Cantor, German mathematician: collection, dies at 72 1916 Birthday Milton Babbitt, U.S. mathematician/composer, Widow's Lament 1916 Death J. W. Richard Dedekind, German mathematician, dies 1913 Death Robert S Ball, Irish mathematician/astronomer (Ball Screw), dies 1913 Birthday Paul Erdos, mathematician 1912 Death J-Henri Poincare, French mine engineer/mathematician, dies at 58 1912 Birthday Alan Turing, mathematician/pioneer in computer theory, Turing Machine 1910 Birthday Charlotte Auerbach, computer Pioneer/Mathematician 1909 Birthday Stanislaw Ulam, Polish Mathematician 1909 Birthday Stephen Cole Kleene, mathematician, Regular Expressions 1908 Birthday Evert W. Beth, Dutch mathematician/philosopher 1908 Birthday Jacob Bronowsky, British mathematician/cultural historian 1906 Birthday Thomas G. Cowling, British mathematician/astronomer 1906 Birthday Max Zorn, German mathematician, lemma of Zorn 1906 Birthday Max A. Zorn, American Mathematician 1906 Birthday Andre Weil, Bourbaki, French/U.S. mathematician 1906 Birthday Kurt Godel, Austria, mathematician, Incompleteness Theorem 1905 Birthday Hans Freudenthal, Dutch mathematician/director, OW&OC 1905 Birthday Laszlo Kalmar, born in Hungary, mathematician, discovered mathematical logic, founder, theoretical computer science in Hungary 1904 Birthday Renato Caccioppoli, Italian mathematician/grandson of Bakunin 1903 Birthday John von Neumann, mathematician and astronomer, Bocher Award 1938 1903 Birthday Alonzo Church, American Mathematician 1903 Death Luigi Cremona, Italian mathematician (grafostatica), dies 1903 Birthday Alexander Oppenheim, mathematician 1902 Birthday Eugene Paul Wigner, mathematician/physicist, A Bomb, Nobel 1963 1902 Birthday Karl Menger, Austria/US mathematician, theory of dimension 1902 Birthday Alfred Tarski, Warsaw, mathematician/logician 1902 Death Cato M Guldberg, Norwegian mathematician, dies at 65 1901 Birthday Friedrichs, mathematician 1901 Death Charles Hermite, French mathematician (e is transcendent), dies at 78 1899 Death M Sophus Lie, Norwegian mathematician, dies at 56 1898 Birthday Paul Urysohn, Russian mathematician 1897 Death James Joseph Sylvester, English Mathematician 1897 Death Karl T Weierstrass, German mathematician, dies at 81 1895 Death Arthur Cayley, mathematician, dies 1894 Death Thomas J Stieltjes, mathematician (Stieltjes-integral), dies at 38 1894 Birthday Norbert Wiener, U.S., mathematician/discovered cybernetics 1894 Birthday Dirk J Bush, Dutch/US mathematician, Concise History of Mathematics 1893 Death Earnest E Kummer, German mathematician (surface of Kummer), dies at 83 1892 Birthday Eduard J Dijksterhuis, Dutch mathematician/historian, Fall and Throw 1892 Birthday Stefan Banach, Polish Mathematician 1892 Birthday Marston Morse, American Mathematician 1891 Death Leopold Kronecker, German mathematician, dies at 68 1891 Death Sofia Kovalevskaya, Russian Mathematician 1890 Birthday Ferdinand Gonseth, Swiss mathematician/philosopher 1890 Birthday Ronald Fisher, English Mathematician 1888 Death Charles Cros, French mathematician/chemist/poet, dies at 45 1888 Birthday Richard Courant, German/U.S. mathematician, What is mathematics? 1887 Birthday Srinivasa Ramanujan, Indies mathematician 1886 Birthday Stanislaw Lesniewski, Poland, logician and mathematician 1885 Birthday Hermann Weyl, German Mathematician 1885 Birthday Alfred Haar, Hungary, mathematician 1884 Birthday George D. Birkhoff, U.S. mathematician, Aesthetic measure 1882 Birthday Arthur Eddington, born in England, astrophysicist, cosmologist, and mathematician 1882 Birthday Leo Perutz, born in Prague, Czechoslovakia, writer, wrote 11 novels, mathematician, emigrated to Palestine during Nazi Anschluss, 1938 1882 Death Joseph Liouville, French mathematician (surface of Liouville), dies 1881 Birthday Luitzen Brouwers, Dutch mathematician 1880 Death Michel Chasles, French mathematician (geometry), dies at 83 1880 Death Benjamin Pierce, U.S. mathematician/astronomer, dies 1879 Death James C. Maxwell, Scottish Mathematician 1879 Death William Kingdon Clifford, English Mathematician 1877 Birthday James Jeans, England, physicist/mathematician/astronomer 1877 Death Antoine A Cournot, French mathematician (rule of C), dies at 75 1877 Birthday G. H. Hardy, British Mathematician 1877 Birthday Godfrey Harold Hardy, British Mathematician 1873 Birthday Julian Lowell Coolidge, Massachusetts, mathematician, Study-Segre school 1872 Death Jacques Babinet, French physicist/mathematician/astronomer, dies at 78 1872 Birthday Bertrand Russell, England, mathematician/philosopher, Nobel 1950 1871 Birthday William H Kilpatrick, U.S. mathematician/philosopher/educator 1871 Death Charles Babbage, English mathematician (calculator), dies at 78 1871 Death Augustus de Morgan, Indian Mathematician 1869 Death Libri, mathematician, dies 1868 Death Julius Plucker, German mathematician/physicist (formula of P), dies 1867 Death Jean-Victor Poncelet, French mathematician (kinematics), dies at 79 1867 Birthday Gerrit Mannoury, Dutch mathematician/philosopher 1866 Birthday Charles-Jean Vallee-Poussin, mathematician, d'analyse 1866 Death G F Berhard Riemann, German mathematician (zeta-function), dies 1865 Birthday Jacques Hadamard, French mathematician, Taylor series 1865 Death William Rowan Hamilton, Irish Mathematician 1864 Death George Boole, Irish Mathematician 1864 Birthday Hermann Minkowski, German mathematician 1863 Birthday Paul [Prudent] Painleve, French mathematician/minister/premier 1863 Birthday Paul P Painleve, French PM, 1917, 1925, mathematician 1862 Birthday David Hilbert, Konigsberg East Prussia, mathematician 1861 Birthday Friedrich Engel, German mathematician, group theory 1861 Birthday Alfred North Whitehead, English mathematician/philosopher, Adv of Ideas 1860 Death Jano Bolyai, Hungarian mathematician (parallel), dies at 57 1859 Death Louis Poinsot, French mathematician/instrument maker, dies at 82 1859 Death Peter G L Dirichlet, German mathematician, dies at 53 1858 Birthday Giuseppe Peano, Italian mathematician, founder of symbolic logic 1858 Birthday Giuseppe Peanoin Cuneo, Piemonte Italy, mathematician 1858 Birthday William Ernst Johnson, born in Cambridge, England, mathematician 1857 Birthday Henry Ernest Dudeney, mathematician and puzzle maker 1857 Birthday Karl Pearson, born in London, England, mathematician 1857 Birthday Pearson, mathematician 1856 Birthday Thomas J Stieltjes, mathematician, Stieltjes integral 1856 Death Farkas/Wolfgang Bolyai, Hungarian mathematician, dies at 81 1856 Birthday Andrey Markov, born in Russia, mathematician, Markov Chain 1855 Death August L Crelle, inventor/mathematician (Rechentafeln), dies at 75 1855 Death Carl Friedrich Gauss, mathematician, dies 1854 Birthday Henri Poincare, France, mathematician, astronomer, and philosopher 1853 Birthday Gregorio Ricci-Curbastro, Italian mathematician, tensor analysis 1852 Birthday Gustav Enestrom, Swedish mathematician 1852 Birthday [Carl L] Ferdinand von Lindemann, German mathematician 1850 Birthday Sofia Kovalevskaya, Russian Mathematician 1849 Birthday Felix Klein, German mathematician, Evanston Colloquium 1849 Death Pierre F Verhulst, Belgian mathematician (logistic curve), dies at 44 1848 Birthday Gottlob Frege, Germany, mathematician/logician, Begriffsschrift 1845 Birthday William Kingdon Clifford, English Mathematician 1845 Birthday Georg Cantor, German mathematician, discover transfinite numbers 1844 Death Francis Baily, English astronomer/mathematician (Baily's Beads), dies 1843 Death William Wallace, Scottish mathematician (rights of Wallace), dies 1842 Birthday Marius Sophus Lie, Norwegian mathematician, continous groups 1842 Birthday Charles Cros, French mathematician/chemist/poet, Le Hareng Saur 1840 Birthday Robert S. Ball, Irish mathematician and astronomer 1840 Death Simeon-Denis Poisson, French mathematician (Poisson verdeling), dies 1840 Death Simeon Poisson, French Mathematician 1840 Death Simon-Antoine-Jean Lhuillier, Swiss mathematician, dies at 89 1836 Birthday Cato M Guldberg, Norwegian mathematician 1836 Death Andre M Ampere, French mathematician/physicist (Amp), dies 1835 Birthday Simon Newcomb, U.S., scientist, mathematician and astronomer 1834 Death Karl W. Feuerbach, mathematician (circle of Feuerbach), dies at 33 1832 Death Evariste Galois, French revolutionary/mathematician, dies at 20 1832 Birthday Carl G Neumann, German mathematician/physicist, Neumann-functions 1832 Birthday Jose Echegaray y Eizaguirre, mathematician/dramatist, Nobel 1904 1831 Birthday J. W. Richard Dedekind, Germany mathematician, Nature and Meaning of Numbers 1831 Birthday James C. Maxwell, Scottish Mathematician 1830 Birthday Luigi Cremona, Italian mathematician/minister of Education 1830 Death Jean Baptiste Joseph Fourier, mathematician, dies 1829 Death Niels H Able, Norwegian mathematician (infinite series), dies at 26 1827 Death Pierre Laplace, French Mathematician 1826 Birthday G F Berhard Riemann, German mathematician, zeta-function 1826 Death Giuseppe Piazzi, monk, mathematician and discoverer, found 1st asteroid, dies at 80 1823 Birthday Leopold Kronecker, German mathematician, Tensor of Kronecker 1822 Birthday Charles Hermite, French mathematician, E is Transcendent 1819 Birthday George Gabriel Stokes, physicist/mathematician, spectroscope 1819 Death John Playfair, Scottish geologist/mathematician, dies 1815 Birthday George Boole, mathematician, Boolean algebra 1815 Birthday Karl Weierstrass, Germany, mathematician, theory of functions 1814 Birthday James Joseph Sylvester, English Mathematician 1814 Birthday Ludwig Schlafli, Swiss vicar/mathematician 1812 Birthday Gopel, mathematician 1811 Birthday Evariste Galois, French revolutionary/mathematician, Theory of G 1810 Birthday Earnest E Kummer, German mathematician 1809 Birthday Hermann Gunther Grassmann, mathematician 1809 Birthday Benjamin Pierce, U.S. mathematician and astronomer 1807 Death Johann N Tetens, German/Danish philosopher/mathematician, dies at 70 1806 Death Benjamin Banneker, astronomer/mathematician, dies at 74 1806 Birthday Augustus de Morgan, Indian Mathematician 1805 Birthday William Rowan Hamilton, Irish Mathematician 1804 Birthday Pierre F Verhulst, Belgium, mathematician, logistic curve 1803 Birthday Charles-Francois Sturm, French mathematician, Sturm's Theorem 1803 Birthday Gugliemo Libri, della Somaia, Italian/French mathematician/book collector 1802 Birthday Janos Bolyai, Romania, mathematician, non-Euclidean geometry 1802 Birthday Niels H Abel, Norwegian mathematician, Abel's Comparisons 1801 Birthday Antoine A. Cournot, French philosopher/mathematician, rule of Cournot 1801 Birthday Julius Plucker, German mathematician/physicist, Plucker formulas 1800 Birthday Karl W. Feuerbach, German mathematician, Position of Feuerbach 1799 Death Maria G Agnesi, Italian mathematician (xy=a(a-y)), dies at 80 1798 Birthday Franz E Neumann, German mineralogist/mathematician/physicist 1796 Birthday Adolphe Quetelet, born in Belgium, mathematician, astronomer, and statistician 1794 Birthday Germinal P Dandelin, Belgian mathematician, geometry 1794 Death Marquis de Condorcet (Marie Jean Antoine Nicholas de Caritat, marquis de Condorcet) , philosopher, mathematician, early political scientist and inventor of the Condorcet method, dies 1794 Birthday Jacques Babinet, French physicist, mathematician and astronomer 1793 Birthday Michel Chasles, French mathematician, geometry 1792 Birthday ... Lobachevsky, mathematician 1790 Birthday August Ferdinand Mobius, mathematician, inventor, Mobius strip 1789 Birthday Augustin-Louis, Baron Cauchy, French mathematician 1788 Birthday Jean-Victor Poncelet, mathematician, founded projective geometry 1783 Birthday Charles-Julien Brianchon, France, mathematician, Brianchon's theorem 1783 Death Jean-Baptiste Le Rond d'Alembert, philosopher/mathematician, die at 66 1783 Death Leonhard Euler, mathematician, dies 1783 Death Leonhard Euler, Swiss mathematician, dies 1782 Death William Emerson, English Mathematician 1782 Death Daniel Bernoulli, Dutch Mathematician 1781 Birthday Simeon-Denis Poisson, French mathematician, Poisson verdeling 1781 Birthday Simeon Poisson, French Mathematician 1780 Birthday August L Crelle, German inventor/mathematician, 1st Prussian Railway 1777 Death Johann Heinrich Lambert, mathematician, dies at 49 1777 Birthday Carl Friedrich Gauss, world's great mathematician 1775 Birthday Farkas/Wolfgang Bolyai, Hungary, mathematician, parallel axiom 1773 Death Cornelis Douwes, Dutch mathematician/astronomer, dies at 60 1773 Birthday Nathaniel Bowditch, mathematician, astronomer and author, Marine Sextant 1770 Death James Stirling, Scottish mathematician (Formula of Stirling), dies at 78 1768 Death Robert Simson, Scotland mathematician, dies at 80 1768 Birthday William Wallace, Scottish mathematician, Rights of Wallace 1768 Birthday Jean-Baptiste-Joseph Fourier, mathematician/Egyptologist 1764 Death Christian Goldbach, German mathematician, dies 1761 Birthday Budan de Boislaurent, mathematician 1761 Death Thomas Simpson, English mathematician (rule of Simpson), dies at 50 1758 Death Pierre Bouguer, French mathematician (fotometrie), dies at 60 1752 Birthday Adrien-Marie Lagendre, mathematician, worked on elliptic integrals 1752 Death Gabriel Cramer, Swiss mathematician (paradox of Cramer), dies at 47 1750 Death Doppelmayr, mathematician 1750 Birthday Simon-Antoine-Jean Lhuillier, Swiss mathematician 1749 Birthday Pierre Laplace, French Mathematician 1748 Birthday John Playfair, born in Scotland, clergyman, geologist and mathematician 1746 Birthday Giuseppe Piazzi, Italian monk, mathematician, and discoverer, discovers 1st asteroid, Ceres 1743 Birthday Jean-Marie Caritat, France, mathematician 1739 Death Nicholas Saunderson, mathematician, dies 1737 Birthday Charles Hutton, mathematician 1736 Birthday Johann N Tetens, German/Danish philosopher/mathematician 1736 Birthday Joseph-Louis, comte de Lagrange, Turin, French mathematician 1735 Death John Arbuthnot, physician/mathematician, dies 1731 Death J Brook Taylor, English mathematician, dies at 46 1731 Birthday Benjamin Banneker, Ellicott, Maryland, black mathematician/surveyor, Washington D.C. 1727 Death Isaac Newton, English Mathematician 1718 Birthday Maria G Agnesi, Italy mathematician curves= xy=a, a-y 1717 Birthday Jean-Baptiste Le Rond d'Alembert, French philosopher/mathematician 1712 Birthday Cornelis Douwes, Dutch mathematician and astronomer 1710 Birthday Thomas Simpson, English mathematician, rules of Simpson 1707 Birthday Leonhard Euler, Bassle Sweden, mathematician, Euler's Constant 1705 Death Jean/Jacobus Bernouilli, Swiss mathematician, dies at 50 1704 Birthday Gabriel Cramer, Swiss mathematician, paradox of Cramer 1704 Death Guillaume F A de l'Hospital, French mathematician, dies at about 62 1703 Death John Wallis, English mathematician/cryptographer (wig of W), dies 1701 Birthday William Emerson, English Mathematician 1700 Birthday Daniel Bernoulli, Dutch Mathematician 1700 Birthday Daniel Bernoulli, born in Basel, Switzerland, mathematician, 10 time French award 1698 Birthday Pierre-Louis Moreau de Maupertuis, born in France, mathematician and astronomer 1698 Birthday Pierre Bouguer, French mathematician, heliometer 1694 Death Mouton, mathematician, dies 1690 Birthday Christian Goldbach, German mathematician, Goldbach position 1687 Birthday Robert Simson, Scotland, mathematician 1685 Birthday Brook Taylor, England, mathematician, discoverer of Taylor's Theorem 1682 Death Rupert, prince of Palts/Admiral/chemist/engraver/mathematician, dies at 62 1682 Birthday John Hadley, mathematician/inventor, 1st reflecting telescope 1679 Death Pieter van Schooten, Dutch mathematician/fort architect, dies at 45 1671 Birthday ... Keill, mathematician 1667 Death Jacobus Golius, mathematician/founder (Leidse observ), dies at 71 1667 Birthday Jean Bernoulli, mathematician 1667 Birthday Abraham De Moivre, French mathematician, De Moivre's theorem 1665 Death Pierre de Fermat, French mathematician (Fermat therorem), dies at 63 1665 Birthday Pierre de Fermat, French lawyer/mathematician 1665 Death Pierre de Fermat, French lawyer/mathematician (principle of F), dies at 63 1655 Birthday Jan Luyts, Netherlands, scholar/physicist/mathematician/astronomer 1654 Birthday Jean/Jacobus Bernouilli, Swiss mathematician 1653 Birthday Joseph Sauveur, French physicist/mathematician 1648 Death Marin Mersenne, French mathematician (Number of Mersenne), dies at 59 1642 Birthday Isaac Newton, born in Grantham, England, physicist, mathematician, and astronomer 1638 Death Claude G Bachet de Meziriac, French mathematician/poet, dies at 56 1637 Death Pierre Vernier [Peter Werner], French mathematician, dies 1635 Death Adrian A Metius, mathematician/fort architect, dies at 63 1626 Death Edmund Gunter, English Mathematician 1626 Death Willebord van Roijen, dutch mathematician, dies at 35 1626 Death Willebrord Snellius, astronomer/mathematician, dies at about 46 1623 Birthday Blaise Pascal, mathematician/physicist/religious writer, Pascal 1619 Birthday Ruprecht, prince of Palts/admiral/chemist/engraver/mathematician 1618 Birthday Francesco M. Grimaldi, mathematician and physicist, light defraction 1617 Death John Napier, Scottish mathematician/inventor (logarithms), dies 1617 Death Franciscus Aguilon, physicist/theologist/mathematician, dies at 50 1616 Birthday John Wallis, English mathematician/cryptographer, product of Wallis 1612 Death Jodocus Hondius, Flemish cartoonist/mathematician, dies at 48 1608 Birthday Giovanni Alfonso Borelli, Naples, mathematician/astronomer 1605 Birthday Boulliau, mathematician 1603 Death Franciscus Vieta, mathematician, dies in Paris at 63 1589 Birthday Jacob de Witt, Dutch mayor, Dordrecht, mathematician 1588 Birthday Marin Mersenne, France, mathematician/musician/philosopher, Cartesian 1581 Birthday Claude G Bachet de Meziriac, French mathematician/theologist 1578 Death Pedro Nunes, Nonius, Port mathematician/astronomer (nonius), dies 1576 Death Rheticus, mathematician, dies 1576 Death Girolamo Cardano, Italian mathematician, dies at 74 1574 Birthday William Oughtred, England, mathematician/inventor, slide rule 1571 Birthday Adrian A. Metius, Dutch mathematician/fort architect 1567 Death Michael Stifel, German theologist/mathematician, dies at about 79 1567 Birthday Franciscus Aguilon, physicist/mathematician/jesuit/architect 1563 Birthday Jodocus Hondius, Flemish mathematician/cartographer 1561 Birthday Roomen, mathematician 1561 Birthday Bartholomeus Pitiscus, German mathematician, Trigonometry 1557 Death Niccolo Tartaglia, Italian mathematician, dies 1553 Death Erasmus Reinhold, German mathematician, dies at 41 1552 Birthday Jobst Burgi, Justus Byrgius, Swiss/German mathematician 1527 Birthday John Dee, London, alchemist/astrologer/mathematician 1514 Birthday Rhaticus, Rheticus, Austrian astronomer/mathematician 1511 Birthday Erasmus Reinhold, Germany, mathematician, calculated planetary table 1501 Birthday Girolamo Cardano, born in Italy, mathematician and astrologer, Ars Magna-1545 1464 Death Nikolaus von Cusa, German theologist/mathematician/philosopher, dies 1131 Death Omar Khayyam, poet, mathematician, physicist, astronomer, wrote, Treatise on Demonstration of Problems of Algebra, dies 1048 Birthday Omar Khayyam, born in Nayshapur, Iran, poet, mathematician, physicist, astronomer, wrote, Treatise on Demonstration of Problems of Algebra 427 Birthday Plato, born in Athens, Greece, writer, philosopher, mathematician, laid foundations of natural philosophy, science, Western philosophy
