2005 Serge Lang, Mathematician
1997 Alexander Oppenheim, mathematician, dies at 94
1996 Paul Erdos, mathematician, dies of heart attack at 83
1996 Michael Gerzon, mathematician, dies at 50
1996 Piet Hein, architect/poet/mathematician/inventor, dies at 80
1996 Gustave Solomon, mathematician, dies at 65
1995 Alonzo Church, American Mathematician
1994 Brian Hartley, mathematician, dies at 55
1994 Charlotte Auerbach, computer pioneer/mathematician, dies at 84
1994 John Britton, English Mathematician
1994 Stephen Cole Kleene, mathematician (Regular Expressions), dies at 85
1993 English mathematician Andrew Wiles proves last theorem of Fermat
1993 Max A. Zorn, American Mathematician
1992 Leech, mathematician, dies
1990 Hans Freudenthal, mathematician/director OW&OC (F Institution), dies
1989 Frank Adams, British Mathematician
1984 Stanislaw Ulam, Polish Mathematician
1983 Mirsky, mathematician, dies
1977 Marston Morse, American Mathematician
1974 Jacob Bronowsky, British mathematician/cultural historian, dies at 66
1974 Abraham Robinson, German Mathematician
1972 Richard Courant, German/US mathematician, dies at 84
1970 Rudolph Carnap, German philosopher/mathematician, dies at 79
1966 Luitzen [Bertus] Brouwers, Dutch mathematician, dies at 85
1965 Eduard J Dijksterhuis, mathematician (Archimedes), dies at 72
1965 William H Kilpatrick, U.S. mathematician/philosopher, dies at 93
1964 Norbert Wiener, U.S. mathematician (cybernetics), dies at 69
1963 Jacques Hadamard, French mathematician (Prime Numbers), dies at 97
1962 Ronald Fisher, English Mathematician
1960 Oswald Veblin, mathematician
1959 Renato Caccioppoli, Italian mathematician/pianist, suicide at 55
1956 Gerrit Mannoury, mathematician/philosopher, dies at 88
1955 Hermann Weyl, German Mathematician
1954 Alan M Turing, British mathematician (Turing), commits suicide at 41
1954 Julian Lowell Coolidge, mathematician (Study-Segre school), dies at 80
1951 Edward Witten, American Mathematician
1947 Alfred North Whitehead, English Mathematician
1947 Hardy, mathematician, dies
1947 G. H. Hardy, British Mathematician
1947 Godfrey Harold Hardy, British Mathematician
1946 James Jeans, English physicist/mathematician/astronomer, dies at 69
1945 Michael Gerzon, mathematician
1945 Stefan Banach, Polish Mathematician
1944 George D Birkhoff, U.S. mathematician (Aesthetic measure), dies at 60
1943 David Hilbert, German mathematician (Hilbert Space), dies at 81
1941 Friedrich Angel, German mathematician (group theory), dies at 79
1939 Dickstein, mathematician, dies
1939 Brian Hartley, mathematician
1939 [Carl L] Ferdinand von Lindemann, German mathematician, dies at 86
1936 Karl Pearson, mathematician, dies
1935 Hugo Brandt Corstius, Dutch essayist/mathematician
1935 Ronald Graham, American Mathematician
1933 Paul, [Prudent] Painleve, French mathematician/minister/premier, dies
1933 Alfred Her, Hungarian mathematician, dies at 47
1932 Giuseppe Peano, mathematician, dies
1931 Peter Swinnereton-Dyer, mathematician
1931 William Ernst Johnson, British mathematician, dies
1930 Frank Adams, British Mathematician
1929 ... Shatunovsky, mathematician, dies
1928 Steinitz, mathematician, dies
1928 John Forbes Nash, American Mathematician
1927 Peter Swinnereton-Dyer, mathematician
1927 Serge Lang, Mathematician
1927 John Britton, English Mathematician
1925 Felix Klein, German mathematician (Riemannsche Flachen), dies at 76
1925 Carl G Neumann, German mathematician/physicist, dies at 92
1924 Benoit Mandelbrot, Warsaw Poland, mathematician, proved Zipf's law
1924 Pavel S "Paul" Urysohn, Russian mathematician, drowns at 26
1922 Iannis Xenakis, Braila Romania, composer/architect/mathematician
1920 Georges Papy, Belgian mathematician, Numbers Game
1920 Moritz B Cantor, German mathematician, dies at 90
1918 Georg F L P Cantor, German mathematician: collection, dies at 72
1918 Abraham Robinson, German Mathematician
1916 Milton Babbitt, U.S. mathematician/composer, Widow's Lament
1916 J. W. Richard Dedekind, German mathematician, dies
1913 Robert S Ball, Irish mathematician/astronomer (Ball Screw), dies
1913 Paul Erdos, mathematician
1912 J-Henri Poincare, French mine engineer/mathematician, dies at 58
1912 Alan Turing, mathematician/pioneer in computer theory, Turing Machine
1910 Charlotte Auerbach, computer Pioneer/Mathematician
1909 Stanislaw Ulam, Polish Mathematician
1909 Stephen Cole Kleene, mathematician, Regular Expressions
1908 Evert W. Beth, Dutch mathematician/philosopher
1908 Jacob Bronowsky, British mathematician/cultural historian
1906 Thomas G. Cowling, British mathematician/astronomer
1906 Max Zorn, German mathematician, lemma of Zorn
1906 Max A. Zorn, American Mathematician
1906 Andre Weil, [Bourbaki], French/US mathematician
1906 Kurt Godel, Austria, mathematician, Incompleteness Theorem
1905 Hans Freudenthal, Dutch mathematician/director, OW&OC
1904 Renato Caccioppoli, Italian mathematician/grandson of Bakunin
1903 John von Neumann, mathematician/astronomer, Bocher Award 1938
1903 Alonzo Church, American Mathematician
1903 Luigi Cremona, Italian mathematician (grafostatica), dies
1903 Alexander Oppenheim, mathematician
1902 Eugene Paul Wigner, mathematician/physicist, A Bomb, Nobel 1963
1902 Karl Menger, Austria/US mathematician, theory of dimension
1902 Alfred Tarski, Warsaw, mathematician/logician
1902 Cato M Guldberg, Norwegian mathematician, dies at 65
1901 Friedrichs, mathematician
1901 Charles Hermite, French mathematician (e is transcendent), dies at 78
1899 M Sophus Lie, Norwegian mathematician, dies at 56
1898 Paul Urysohn, Russian mathematician
1897 James Joseph Sylvester, English Mathematician
1897 Karl T Weierstrass, German mathematician, dies at 81
1895 Arthur Cayley, mathematician, dies
1894 Thomas J Stieltjes, mathematician (Stieltjes-integral), dies at 38
1894 Norbert Wiener, U.S., mathematician/discovered cybernetics
1894 Dirk J Bush, Dutch/US mathematician, Concise History of Mathematics
1893 Earnest E Kummer, German mathematician (surface of Kummer), dies at 83
1892 Eduard J Dijksterhuis, Dutch mathematician/historian, Fall and Throw
1892 Stefan Banach, Polish Mathematician
1892 Marston Morse, American Mathematician
1891 Leopold Kronecker, German mathematician, dies at 68
1891 Sofia Kovalevskaya, Russian Mathematician
1890 Ferdinand Gonseth, Swiss mathematician/philosopher
1890 Ronald Fisher, English Mathematician
1888 Charles Cros, French mathematician/chemist/poet, dies at 45
1888 Richard Courant, German/U.S. mathematician, What is mathematics?
1887 Srinivasa Ramanujan, Indies mathematician, ã/Notebooks
1886 Stanislaw Lesniewski, Poland, logician and mathematician
1885 Hermann Weyl, German Mathematician
1885 Alfred Haar, Hungary, mathematician
1884 George D. Birkhoff, U.S. mathematician, Aesthetic measure
1882 Arthur Eddington, England, astrophysicist/cosmologist/mathematician
1882 Joseph Liouville, French mathematician (surface of Liouville), dies
1881 Luitzen [Bertus] Brouwers, Dutch mathematician
1880 Michel Chasles, French mathematician (geometry), dies at 83
1880 Benjamin Pierce, U.S. mathematician/astronomer, dies
1879 William Kingdon Clifford, English Mathematician
1879 James C. Maxwell, Scottish Mathematician
1877 James Jeans, England, physicist/mathematician/astronomer
1877 Antoine A Cournot, French mathematician (rule of C), dies at 75
1877 G. H. Hardy, British Mathematician
1877 Godfrey Harold Hardy, British Mathematician
1873 Julian Lowell Coolidge, Massachusetts, mathematician, Study-Segre school
1872 Jacques Babinet, French physicist/mathematician/astronomer, dies at 78
1872 Bertrand Russell, England, mathematician/philosopher, Nobel 1950
1871 William H Kilpatrick, U.S. mathematician/philosopher/educator
1871 Charles Babbage, English mathematician (calculator), dies at 78
1871 Augustus de Morgan, Indian Mathematician
1869 Libri, mathematician, dies
1868 Julius Plucker, German mathematician/physicist (formula of P), dies
1867 Jean-Victor Poncelet, French mathematician (kinematics), dies at 79
1867 Gerrit Mannoury, Dutch mathematician/philosopher
1866 Charles-Jean Vallee-Poussin, mathematician, d'analyse
1866 G F Berhard Riemann, German mathematician (zeta-function), dies
1865 Jacques Hadamard, French mathematician, Taylor series
1865 William Rowan Hamilton, Irish Mathematician
1864 George Boole, Irish Mathematician
1864 Hermann Minkowski, German mathematician
1863 Paul [Prudent] Painleve, French mathematician/minister/premier
1863 Paul P Painleve, French PM, 1917, 1925, mathematician
1862 David Hilbert, Konigsberg East Prussia, mathematician
1861 Friedrich Engel, German mathematician, group theory
1861 Alfred North Whitehead, Engl mathematician/philosopher, Adv of Ideas
1860 Jano Bolyai, Hungarian mathematician (parallel), dies at 57
1859 Louis Poinsot, French mathematician/instrument maker, dies at 82
1859 Peter G L Dirichlet, German mathematician, dies at 53
1858 Giuseppe Peano, Italian mathematician, founder of symbolic logic
1858 Giuseppe Peanoin Cuneo, Piemonte Italy, mathematician
1858 William Ernst Johnson, born in Cambridge, England, mathematician
1857 Henry Ernest Dudeney, mathematician and puzzle maker
1857 Karl Pearson, born in London, England, mathematician
1857 Pearson, mathematician
1856 Thomas J Stieltjes, mathematician, Stieltjes integral
1856 Farkas/Wolfgang Bolyai, Hungarian mathematician, dies at 81
1856 Andrey Markov, born in Russia, mathematician, Markov Chain
1855 August L Crelle, inventor/mathematician (Rechentafeln), dies at 75
1855 Carl Friedrich Gauss, mathematician, dies
1854 Henri Poincare, France, mathematician/astronomer/philosopher
1853 Gregorio Ricci-Curbastro, Italian mathematician, tensor analysis
1852 Gustav Enestrom, Swedish mathematician
1852 [Carl L] Ferdinand von Lindemann, German mathematician
1850 Sofia Kovalevskaya, Russian Mathematician
1849 Felix Klein, German mathematician, Evanston Colloquium
1849 Pierre F Verhulst, Belgian mathematician (logistic curve), dies at 44
1848 Gottlob Frege, Germany, mathematician/logician, Begriffsschrift
1845 William Kingdon Clifford, English Mathematician
1845 Georg Cantor, German mathematician, discover transfinite numbers
1844 Francis Baily, English astronomer/mathematician (Baily's Beads), dies
1843 William Wallace, Scottish mathematician (rights of Wallace), dies
1842 Marius Sophus Lie, Norwegian mathematician, continous groups
1842 Charles Cros, French mathematician/chemist/poet, Le Hareng Saur
1840 Robert S. Ball, Irish mathematician/astronomer
1840 Simeon-Denis Poisson, French mathematician (Poisson verdeling), dies
1840 Simeon Poisson, French Mathematician
1840 Simon-Antoine-Jean Lhuillier, Swiss mathematician, dies at 89
1836 Cato M Guldberg, Norwegian mathematician
1836 Andre M Ampere, French mathematician/physicist (Amp), dies
1835 Simon Newcomb, U.S., scientist, mathematician and astronomer
1834 Karl W. Feuerbach, mathematician (circle of Feuerbach), dies at 33
1832 Evariste Galois, French revolutionary/mathematician, dies at 20
1832 Carl G Neumann, German mathematician/physicist, Neumann-functions
1832 Jose Echegaray y Eizaguirre, mathematician/dramatist, Nobel 1904
1831 J. W. Richard Dedekind, Ger mathematician, Nature and Meaning of Numbers
1831 James C. Maxwell, Scottish Mathematician
1830 Luigi Cremona, Italian mathematician/minister of Education
1830 Jean Baptiste Joseph Fourier, mathematician, dies
1829 Niels H Able, Norwegian mathematician (infinite series), dies at 26
1827 Pierre Laplace, French Mathematician
1826 G F Berhard Riemann, German mathematician, zeta-function
1826 Giuseppe Piazzi, monk/mathematician (found 1st asteroid), dies at 80
1823 Leopold Kronecker, German mathematician, Tensor of Kronecker
1822 Charles Hermite, French mathematician, E is Transcendent
1819 George Gabriel Stokes, physicist/mathematician, spectroscope
1819 John Playfair, Scottish geologist/mathematician, dies
1815 George Boole, mathematician, Boolean algebra
1815 Karl Weierstrass, Germany, mathematician, theory of functions
1814 James Joseph Sylvester, English Mathematician
1814 Ludwig Schlafli, Swiss vicar/mathematician
1812 Gopel, mathematician
1811 Evariste Galois, French revolutionary/mathematician, Theory of G
1810 Earnest E Kummer, German mathematician
1809 Hermann Gunther Grassmann, mathematician
1809 Benjamin Pierce, U.S. mathematician and astronomer
1807 Johann N Tetens, German/Danish philosopher/mathematician, dies at 70
1806 Benjamin Banneker, astronomer/mathematician, dies at 74
1806 Augustus de Morgan, Indian Mathematician
1805 William Rowan Hamilton, Irish Mathematician
1804 Pierre F Verhulst, Belgium, mathematician, logistic curve
1803 Charles-Francois Sturm, French mathematician, Sturm's Theorem
1803 Gugliemo Libri, [della Somaia], Ital/Fren mathematician/book collector
1802 Janos Bolyai, Romania, mathematician, non-Euclidean geometry
1802 Niels H Abel, Norwegian mathematician, Abel's Comparisons
1801 Antoine A. Cournot, French philosopher/mathematician, rule of Cournot
1801 Julius Plucker, German mathematician/physicist, Plucker formulas
1800 Karl W. Feuerbach, German mathematician, Position of Feuerbach
1799 Maria G Agnesi, Italian mathematician (xy=a(a-y)), dies at 80
1798 Franz E Neumann, German mineralogist/mathematician/physicist
1796 Adolphe Quetelet, Belgium, mathematician/astronomer/statistician
1794 Germinal P Dandelin, Belgian mathematician, geometry
1794 Marie-Jean-Antoine-Nicholas-Caritat, mathematician dies
1794 Marie-J-A-N C Condorcet, mathematician (Theory of Comets), dies at 50
1794 Jacques Babinet, French physicist, mathematician and astronomer
1793 Michel Chasles, French mathematician, geometry
1792 ... Lobachevsky, mathematician
1790 August Ferdinand Mobius, mathematician, inventor, Mobius strip
1789 Augustin-Louis, Baron Cauchy, French mathematician
1788 Jean-Victor Poncelet, mathematician, founded projective geometry
1783 Charles-Julien Brianchon, France, mathematician, Brianchon's theorem
1783 Jean-Baptiste Le Rond d'Alembert, philosopher/mathematician, die at 66
1783 Leonhard Euler, mathematician, dies
1783 Leonhard Euler, Swiss mathematician, dies
1782 William Emerson, English Mathematician
1782 Daniel Bernoulli, Dutch Mathematician
1781 Simeon-Denis Poisson, French mathematician, Poisson verdeling
1781 Simeon Poisson, French Mathematician
1780 August L Crelle, German inventor/mathematician, 1st Prussian Railway
1777 Johann Heinrich Lambert, mathematician, dies at 49
1777 Carl Friedrich Gauss, world's great mathematician
1775 Farkas/Wolfgang Bolyai, Hungary, mathematician, parallel axiom
1773 Cornelis Douwes, Dutch mathematician/astronomer, dies at 60
1773 Nathaniel Bowditch, mathematician, astronomer and author, Marine Sextant
1770 James Stirling, Scot mathematician (Formula of Stirling), dies at 78
1768 Robert Simson, Scotland mathematician, dies at 80
1768 William Wallace, Scottish mathematician, Rights of Wallace
1768 Jean-Baptiste-Joseph Fourier, mathematician/Egyptologist
1764 Christian Goldbach, German mathematician, dies
1761 Budan de Boislaurent, mathematician
1761 Thomas Simpson, English mathematician (rule of Simpson), dies at 50
1758 Pierre Bouguer, French mathematician (fotometrie), dies at 60
1752 Adrien-Marie Lagendre, mathematician, worked on elliptic integrals
1752 Gabriel Cramer, Swiss mathematician (paradox of Cramer), dies at 47
1750 Doppelmayr, mathematician
1750 Simon-Antoine-Jean Lhuillier, Swiss mathematician
1749 Pierre-Simon Laplace, mathematician/astronomer/physicist
1749 Pierre Laplace, French Mathematician
1748 John Playfair, born in Scotland, clergyman, geologist and mathematician
1743 Jean-Marie Caritat, France, mathematician
1739 Nicholas Saunderson, mathematician, dies
1737 Charles Hutton, mathematician
1736 Johann N Tetens, German/Danish philosopher/mathematician
1736 Joseph-Louis, comte de Lagrange, Turin, French mathematician
1735 John Arbuthnot, physician/mathematician, dies
1731 J Brook Taylor, English mathematician, dies at 46
1731 Benjamin Banneker, Ellicott, Maryland, black mathematician/surveyor, Washington D.C.
1728 Johann Lambert, Switzerland, mathematician, proved ã is irrational
1727 Isaac Newton, English Mathematician
1718 Maria G Agnesi, Italy mathematician curves= xy=a, a-y
1717 Jean-Baptiste Le Rond d'Alembert, French philosopher/mathematician
1712 Cornelis Douwes, Dutch mathematician/astronomer
1710 Thomas Simpson, English mathematician, rules of Simpson
1707 Leonhard Euler, Bassle Sweden, mathematician, Euler's Constant
1705 Jean/Jacobus Bernouilli, Swiss mathematician, dies at 50
1704 Gabriel Cramer, Swiss mathematician, paradox of Cramer
1704 Guillaume F A de l'Hospital, French mathematician, dies at about 62
1703 John Wallis, English mathematician/cryptographer (wig of W), dies
1701 William Emerson, English Mathematician
1700 Daniel Bernoulli, Dutch Mathematician
1700 Daniel Bernoulli, Basel Switz, mathematician, 10 time French award
1698 Pierre-Louis Moreau de Maupertuis, France, mathematician/astronomer
1698 Pierre Bouguer, French mathematician, heliometer
1694 Mouton, mathematician, dies
1690 Christian Goldbach, German mathematician, Goldbach position
1687 Robert Simson, Scotland, mathematician
1685 Brook Taylor, England, mathematician, discoverer of Taylor's Theorem
1682 Rupert, prince of Palts/adm/chemist/engraver/mathematician, dies at 62
1682 John Hadley, mathematician/inventor, 1st reflecting telescope
1679 Pieter van Schooten, Dutch mathematician/fort architect, dies at 45
1671 ... Keill, mathematician
1667 Jacobus Golius, mathematician/founder (Leidse observ), dies at 71
1667 Jean Bernoulli, mathematician
1667 Abraham De Moivre, French mathematician, De Moivre's theorem
1665 Pierre de Fermat, French mathematician (Fermat therorem), dies at 63
1665 Pierre de Fermat, French lawyer/mathematician
1665 Pierre de Fermat, Fr lawyer/mathematician (principle of F), dies at 63
1655 Jan Luyts, Netherlands, scholar/physicist/mathematician/astronomer
1654 Jean/Jacobus Bernouilli, Swiss mathematician
1653 Joseph Sauveur, French physicist/mathematician
1648 Marin Mersenne, French mathematician (Number of Mersenne), dies at 59
1642 Isaac Newton, Grantham England, physicist/mathematician/astronomer
1638 Claude G Bachet de Meziriac, French mathematician/poet, dies at 56
1637 Pierre Vernier [Peter Werner], French mathematician, dies
1635 Adrian A Metius, mathematician/fort architect, dies at 63
1626 Willebord van Roijen, dutch mathematician, dies at 35
1626 Willebrord Snellius, astronomer/mathematician, dies at about 46
1626 Edmund Gunter, English Mathematician
1623 Blaise Pascal, mathematician/physicist/religious writer, Pascal
1619 Ruprecht, prince of Palts/admiral/chemist/engraver/mathematician
1618 Francesco M. Grimaldi, mathematician and physicist, light defraction
1617 John Napier, Scottish mathematician/inventor (logarithms), dies
1617 Franciscus Aguilon, physicist/theologist/mathematician, dies at 50
1616 John Wallis, English mathematician/cryptographer, product of Wallis
1612 Jodocus Hondius, Flemish cartoonist/mathematician, dies at 48
1608 Giovanni Alfonso Borelli, Naples, mathematician/astronomer
1605 Boulliau, mathematician
1603 Franciscus Vieta, mathematician, dies in Paris at 63
1589 Jacob de Witt, Dutch mayor, Dordrecht, /mathematician
1588 Marin Mersenne, France, mathematician/musician/philosopher, Cartesian
1581 Claude G Bachet de Meziriac, French mathematician/theologist
1578 Pedro Nunes, [Nonius], Port mathematician/astronomer (nonius), dies
1576 Rheticus, mathematician, dies
1576 Girolamo Cardano, Italian mathematician, dies at 74
1574 William Oughtred, England, mathematician/inventor, slide rule
1571 Adrian A. Metius, Dutch mathematician/fort architect
1567 Michael Stifel, German theologist/mathematician, dies at about 79
1567 Franciscus Aguilon, physicist/mathematician/jesuit/architect
1563 Jodocus Hondius, Flemish mathematician/cartographer
1561 Roomen, mathematician
1561 Bartholomeus Pitiscus, German mathematician, Trigonometry
1557 Niccolo Tartaglia, Italian mathematician, dies
1553 Erasmus Reinhold, German mathematician, dies at 41
1552 Jobst Burgi, [Justus Byrgius], Swiss/German mathematician
1527 John Dee, London, alchemist/astrologer/mathematician
1514 Rhaticus, [Rheticus], Austrian astronomer/mathematician
1511 Erasmus Reinhold, Germany, mathematician, calculated planetary table
1501 Girolamo Cardano, Italy, mathematician/astrologer, Ars Magna-1545
1464 Nikolaus von Cusa, German theologist/mathematician/philosopher, dies
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