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Michael Friendly
York University
Milestones Calendar Events for 2024
This page lists birthdays, death days and the days of significant events associated with individuals in the history of data visualization. A few events are recorded only as a month & year.
Names link to a search in the milestones database for their contributions.
Principal anniversaries in the current year (modulo 25 years) are highlighted.
Candles indicate centuries 
and quarter centuries 
.
January
| 1 |  |
died: Grace Hopper 1992 (Arlington, Virginia, USA) |
| 3 |  |
event: Francis Galton 1889 --- Galton's Natural Inheritance published |
| 4 |  |
born: Isaac Newton 1643 (Lincolnshire, England) |
| 5 | |
died: Francis Amasa Walker 1897 (Boston, MA, USA) |
| 8 | |
born: Jean Talon 1626 (Chalons-en-Champagne, France) |
| 8 | |
died: Galileo Galilei 1642 (Arcetri, Italy) |
| 10 | |
died: Adrien Marie Legendre 1833 (Paris, France) |
| 12 | |
died: Pierre de Fermat 1665 (Castres, France) |
| 14 | |
died: Edmond Halley 1742 (Greenwich, England) |
| 15 | |
died: Roger M. Goldwyn 1994 |
| 17 | |
died: Francis Galton 1911 (Haslemere, Surrey, England) |
| 18 | |
died: Baron Pierre Charles Dupin 1873 (Paris, France) |
| 19 | |
born: James Watt 1736 (Greenock, Scotland) |
| 19 | |
died: George Julius Poulett Scrope 1876 (Cobham, Surrey, England) |
| 21 | |
died: Arthur L. Bowley 1957 (Surrey, England) |
| 23 | |
died: Howard Taylor Fisher 1979 (Boston, MA, USA) |
| 24 | |
event: Edmond Halley 1684 --- Shows that Kepler's third law implied the inverse square law of attraction and presented the results at a meeting of the Royal Society [http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/history/Biographies/Halley.html] |
| 27 | |
died: Phillippe Buache 1773 (Paris, France) |
| 29 | |
born: Joseph B. Kruskal 1928 (New York, USA) |
February
| 1 | |
died: Charles Lallemand 1839 (Bussy, Haute-Marne, France) |
| 2 | |
born: Mark Monmonier 1943 (Baltimore, Maryland, USA) |
| 2 | |
died: Dmitri Mendeleev 1907 (Saint Petersburg, Russia) |
| 2 | |
event: Johann Carl Friedrich Gauss 1823 --- Gauss completes "Gauss-Markov Theorem" |
| 3 | |
died: Johann Gutenberg 1468 (Mainz, Germany) |
| 5 | |
died: Nicolaus Samuel Cruquius 1754 (Spaarndam, Netherlands) |
| 5 | |
died: Pierre-Simon, Marquis de Laplace 1827 (Paris, France) |
| 5 | |
event: John Graunt 1662 --- "Natural and Political Observations.." was published in London; it is considered the founding text of both statistics and demography [Graunt:1662; http://www.encyclopedia.com/topic/John_Graunt.aspx] |
| 5 | |
event: Pierre Simon Laplace 1772 --- Laplace presents his first probability memoir to the Académie des Sciences |
| 6 | |
born: Charles Wheatstone 1802 (Gloucester, England) |
| 6 | |
died: Joseph Priestley 1804 (Pennsylvania, USA) |
| 7 | |
born: Phillippe Buache 1700 (Paris, France) |
| 8 | |
born: Dmitri Mendeleev 1834 (Tobolsk, Russia) |
| 8 | |
born: Francis Ysidro Edgeworth 1845 (Edgeworthstown, County Longford, Ireland) |
| 9 | |
event: Francis Galton 1877 --- Galton presents idea of 'reversion' based on breeding experiments with sweet peas [Stigler:1986, p.281] |
| 10 | |
died: Émile Cheysson 1910 (Leysin, Switzerland) |
| 10 | |
died: Henry Drury Harness 1883 (Headington, Oxfordshire, England) |
| 10 | |
died: Lawrence Joseph Henderson 1942 (Cambridge, MA, USA) |
| 11 | |
born: Josiah Willard Gibbs 1839 (New Haven, Connecticut, USA) |
| 11 | |
born: James Cowles Pritchard 1786 (Herefordshire, England) |
| 11 | |
died: René Descartes 1650 (Stockholm, Sweden) |
| 11 | |
died: William Playfair 1823 (London, England) |
| 12 | |
born: Jacques Barbeu-Dubourg 1709 (Mayenne, France) |
| 12 | |
born: Georg von Mayr 1841 (Wuerzburg, Germany) |
| 13 | |
died: Rogerius Josephus Boscovich 1787 (Milan, Italy) |
| 14 | |
died: Alphonse Bertillon 1914 (Paris, France) |
| 14 | |
died: Francis Ysidro Edgeworth 1926 (Oxford, Oxfordshire, England) |
| 14 | |
event: Pierre Simon Laplace 1814 --- Laplace presents Essai philosophique sur les probabilités to the Académie des Sciences |
| 15 | |
born: Galileo Galilei 1564 (Pisa, Italy) |
| 15 | |
died: Pierre-François Verhulst 1849 (Brussels, Belgium) 175th anniversary |
| 15 | |
event: Johann Carl Friedrich Guass 1821 --- Gauss reads part I of "Gauss-Markov Theorem" |
| 16 | |
born: Francis Galton 1822 (Sparkbrook, Birmingham, England) |
| 16 | |
born: Georg Joachim Rheticus 1514 (Feldkirch, Austria) |
| 17 | |
born: Ronald Aylmer Fisher 1890 (London, England) |
| 17 | |
born: Johanes Tobias Mayer 1723 (Marbach, Germany) |
| 17 | |
born: Martin I. Krzywinski 1971 (Warsaw, Poland) |
| 17 | |
died: Heinrich Berghaus 1884 (Stettin, Poland) |
| 17 | |
died: Adolphe Quetelet 1874 (Brussels, Belgium) 150th anniversary |
| 17 | |
event: Dmitri Mendeleev 1889 --- Mendeleev discovers the systematic periodicity in chemical elements, when arranged in what he called the periodic table [Mendeleev:1889] |
| 18 | |
died: Henry Norris Russell 1957 (Princeton, NJ, USA) |
| 20 | |
died: Johanes Tobias Mayer 1762 (Gottingen, Germany) |
| 22 | |
born: Adolphe Quetelet 1796 (Ghent, Flanders, Belgium) |
| 23 | |
died: Johann Carl Friedrich Gauss 1855 (Göttingen, Germany) |
| 23 | |
born: W.E.B. Du Bois 1863 (Great Barrington, MA, USA) |
| 25 | |
died: Christopher Wren 1723 (London, England) |
| 26 | |
died: Aloys Senefelder 1834 (Munich, Germany) |
| 27 | |
born: John Bailey Peddle 1868 (Terre Haute, Indiana, USA) |
| 27 | |
died: John Arbuthnot 1735 (London, England) |
| 27 | |
event: Francis Galton 1874 150th anniversary --- Galton demonstrates the quincunx at a meeting of the Royal Institution [Stigler:1986, p.276] |
| 29 | |
born: Herman Hollerith 1860 (Buffalo, NY, USA) |
March
| 3 | |
died: Sewall Wright 1988 (Madison, Wisconsin, USA) |
| 4 | |
died: Alban William Housego Phillips 1975 (Auckland, New Zealand) |
| 5 | |
born: Benjamin Gompertz 1779 (London, England) |
| 5 | |
born: Etienne-Jules Marey 1830 (Beaune, France) |
| 5 | |
born: Gerardus Mercator 1512 (Rupelmonde, Flanders, Belgium) |
| 5 | |
born: William Oughtred 1574 (Eton, England) 450th anniversary |
| 6 | |
event: Adrien Marie Legendre 1805 --- Legendre introduces least squares in his Nouvelles Méthodes pour la Détermination des Orbites des Comètes |
| 7 | |
born: John Frederick W. Herschel 1792 (Slough, Buckinghamshire, England) |
| 7 | |
born: Charles Lallemand 1857 (Saint-Aubin-sur-Aire, France) |
| 7 | |
born: Joseph Nicephore Niepce 1765 (Chalon-sur-Saone, France) |
| 7 | |
died: Alexandre Jean Baptiste Parent-Duchatelet 1836 (Paris, France) |
| 9 | |
born: Howard H. Aiken 1900 (Hoboken, NJ, USA) |
| 10 | |
born: George Julius Poulett Scrope 1797 (Waverley Abbey, Surrey, England) |
| 10 | |
event: Pierre Simon Laplace 1733 --- Laplace introduces inverse probability, arguably the most influential paper in mathematical statistics before 1800 [https://doi.org/10.1214/ss/1177013620] |
| 11 | |
born: Vannevar Bush 1890 (Everett, USA) |
| 11 | |
died: Walter A. Shewhart 1967 (Troy Hills, New Jersey, USA) |
| 12 | |
died: Charles Xavier Thomas de Colmar 1870 (Paris, France) |
| 13 | |
born: Joseph Priestley 1733 (Leeds, England) |
| 13 | |
died: Henry Pickering Bowditch 1911 (Boston, USA) |
| 13 | |
died: Léon Lalanne 1892 (Paris, France) |
| 13 | |
event: Galileo Galilei 1610 --- Published Sidereus Nuncius; containing the first astronomical pictures ever published using a telescope [Galilei:1610; Tufte] |
| 14 | |
died: Howard H. Aiken 1973 (St Louis, MO, USA) |
| 14 | |
died: Adriano Balbi 1884 (Padua, Italy) |
| 15 | |
died: James Joseph Sylvester 1897 (London, England) |
| 16 | |
born: John Snow 1813 (Yorkshire, England) |
| 16 | |
died: Richard A. Becker 1955 (Bad Schwalbach, Germany) |
| 17 | |
died: John Backus 2007 (Ashland, OR, USA) |
| 18 | |
born: Walter A. Shewhart 1891 (New Canton Illinois, USA) |
| 18 | |
born: Frank Julian Warne 1874 (Parkersburg, WV, USA) 150th anniversary |
| 21 | |
born: Jean Baptiste Joseph Fourier 1768 (Auxerre, Bourgogne, France) |
| 21 | |
died: Luke Howard 1864 (Tottenham, England) |
| 21 | |
died: Edward Walter Maunder 1928 (London, England) |
| 22 | |
died: Johann Peter Süssmilch 1767 (Berlin, Germany) |
| 23 | |
born: William Smith 1769 (Churchill, Oxfordshire, England) |
| 23 | |
born: Pierre-Simon, Marquis de Laplace 1749 (Beaumont-en-Auge, Normandy, France) 275th anniversary |
| 25 | |
born: Maurice d'Ocagne 1862 (Paris, France) |
| 27 | |
born: Charles Joseph Minard 1781 (Dijon, France) |
| 27 | |
born: Karl Pearson 1857 (London, England) |
| 28 | |
event: Johann Carl Friedrich Gauss 1809 --- Gauss finishes Theoria Motus, among the most perfect books on observational astronomy |
| 30 | |
born: Charles Booth 1840 (Liverpool, England) |
| 31 | |
born: René Descartes 1596 (La Haye-Descartes, France) |
| 31 | |
died: Isaac Newton 1727 (Kensington, London, England) |
| NA | |
event: Michael Florent van Langren 1628 --- van Langren presents the first statistical graph, in a letter to Isabella of Spain [Friendly-etal:2010] |
April
| 1 | |
born: John Arbuthnot 1667 (Inverbervie, Kincardine, Scotland) |
| 1 | |
born: Emmanuel de Martonne 1873 (Chabris, France) |
| 2 | |
born: Abraham Ortelius 1527 (Antwerp, France) |
| 2 | |
born: Valentine Seaman 1770 (Queens Country, NY, USA) |
| 3 | |
died: Ernest Florens Friedrich Chladni 1827 (Wrocław, Poland) |
| 4 | |
born: Henry Pickering Bowditch 1840 (Boston, USA) |
| 4 | |
died: John Napier 1617 (Edinburgh, Scotland) |
| 4 | |
died: John Venn 1923 (Cambridge, England) |
| 6 | |
born: Louis-Léger Vauthier 1815 (Bergerac, France) |
| 9 | |
born: Eadweard Muybridge 1830 (Kingston upon Thames, England) |
| 9 | |
died: André Michel Guerry 1866 (Paris, France) |
| 9 | |
event: Pierre Simon Laplace 1810 --- Laplace presents the central limit theorem [Stigler:1986, p.136] |
| 10 | |
born: Forrest Young 1940 (Los Angeles, CA, USA) |
| 10 | |
died: Auguste Lumière 1954 (Lyon, France) |
| 10 | |
event: Thomas Simpson 1755 --- Simpson introduces error distributions, the first formulation of a continuous distribution |
| 12 | |
born: Edward Walter Maunder 1851 (London, England) |
| 14 | |
born: Howard Gray Funkhouser 1898 (Winchester,. Virginia, USA) |
| 14 | |
born: Christiaan Huygens 1629 (The Hague, Netherlands) |
| 15 | |
born: Leonhard Euler 1707 (Basel, Switzerland) |
| 15 | |
born: Moses Harris 1730 (England) |
| 15 | |
born: Leonardo da Vinci 1452 (Vinci, Italy) |
| 17 | |
died: Thomas Bayes 1761 (Tunbridge Wells, Kent, England) |
| 17 | |
died: Patrick Geddes 1932 (College des Ecossais, Montpellier, France) |
| 18 | |
died: John Graunt 1674 (London, England) 350th anniversary |
| 19 | |
born: Gustav Theodor Fechner 1801 (Groß Särchen, Germany) |
| 22 | |
born: Wilhelm Schickard 1592 (Herrenberg, Germany) |
| 24 | |
born: Alphonse Bertillon 1853 (Paris, France) |
| 24 | |
born: John Graunt 1620 (London, England) |
| 25 | |
born: Adriano Balbi 1782 (Venice, Italy) |
| 27 | |
born: Michael F. van Langren 1598 (Amsterdam, Netherlands) |
| 27 | |
died: Karl Pearson 1936 (Coldharbour, Surrey, England) |
| 27 | |
event: Christiaan Huygens 1657 --- Published De ratiociniis in ludi aleae; first printed work on probablity theory [Huygens:1657] |
| 28 | |
died: Josiah Willard Gibbs 1903 (New Haven, Connecticut, USA) |
| 30 | |
born: Johann Carl Friedrich Gauss 1777 (Braunschweig, Germany) |
May
| 1 | |
born: Andrew S. C. Ehrenberg 1926 (Bochum, Germany) |
| 1 | |
died: Gottfried Achenwall 1772 (Göttingen, Germany) |
| 2 | |
born: Athanasius Kirscher 1602 (Geisa, Imperial Abbey of Fulda, Germany) |
| 2 | |
died: Leonardo da Vinci 1519 (Cloux, Amboise, France) |
| 3 | |
born: Heinrich Berghaus 1797 (Kleve, Germany) |
| 3 | |
died: Jacques Bertin 2010 (Paris, France) |
| 5 | |
born: Roger M. Goldwyn 1936 |
| 5 | |
born: Charles Xavier Thomas de Colmar 1785 (Colmar, France) |
| 6 | |
died: Alexander von Humboldt 1859 (Berlin, Germany) |
| 7 | |
born: Michael Friendly 1945 (New York City, NY, USA) |
| 8 | |
died: Eadweard Muybridge 1904 (Kingston upon Thames, England) |
| 9 | |
born: Gaspard Monge 1746 (Golden Hillside, France) |
| 10 | |
born: Mordecai J. B. Ezekial 1899 (Richmond, Virginia, USA) 125th anniversary |
| 11 | |
died: John Frederick W. Herschel 1871 (Hawkhurst, Kent, England) |
| 11 | |
event: Edmond Halley 1676 --- Important observations were recorded at Oxford about the occultation of Mars by the moon [http://www-history.mcs.st-and.ac.uk/Biographies/Halley.html] |
| 11 | |
event: Francis Ysidro Edgeworth 1892 --- Edgeworth's first Newmarch Lecture |
| 12 | |
born: Florence Nightingale 1820 (Florence, Italy) |
| 12 | |
born: Johann Heinrich Schulze 1687 (Germany) |
| 14 | |
born: Niels Keiding 1944 (Copenhagen, Denmark) |
| 14 | |
died: Thomas Simpson 1761 (Market Bosworth, Leicestershire, England) |
| 14 | |
event: Lt. Serjev 1854 --- The first graphic train schedule, portraying routes from St. Petersbourg to Moscow. It was previously believed that this method was designed by Marey. [Wainer-Harik:2013] |
| 15 | |
born: Andreas Buja 1951 (Zurich, Switzerland) |
| 15 | |
died: Jacob Cristoph Le Blon 1741 (Paris, France) |
| 15 | |
died: Etienne-Jules Marey 1904 (Paris, France) |
| 16 | |
died: Jean Baptiste Joseph Fourier 1830 (Paris, France) |
| 18 | |
born: Rogerius Josephus Boscovich 1711 (Ragusa, Dubrovnik, Croatia) |
| 18 | |
born: Émile Cheysson 1836 (Nimes, France) |
| 20 | |
born: Adolphe d'Angeville 1796 (Lompnes, France) |
| 20 | |
event: Abraham Ortelius 1570 --- Theatrum Orbis Terrarum (Theatre of the world), the first modern atlas published. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theatrum_Orbis_Terrarum] |
| 21 | |
born: Hans Berger 1873 (Neuses, Germany) |
| 23 | |
born: Jacob Cristoph Le Blon 1667 (Frankfurt am Main, Germany) |
| 25 | |
died: Kuno Ruben Gabriel 2003 (Rochester, NY, USA) |
| 25 | |
died: Regnier Gemma-Frisius 1555 (Louvain, Brabant, Belgium) |
| 26 | |
born: William Petty 1623 (Romsey, England) |
| 26 | |
born: Abraham de Moivre 1667 (Vitry le Francois, Champagne, France) |
| 26 | |
died: Adolphe d'Angeville 1856 (Lompnes, France) |
| 29 | |
born: Louis Leon Thurstone 1887 (Chicago, Illnois, USA) |
| NA | |
event: John Snow 1855 --- A dot map (2nd ed) that shows the concentration of deaths caused by Cholera in a part of England. [Gilbert:1958; Snow:1855] |
| NA | |
event: Charles Joseph Minard 1864 --- A chart of the quantities of French wine exported by sea in 1864 was designed by Minard [Minard:1865b] |
June
| 1 | |
died: Hans Berger 1941 (Jena, Germany) |
| 3 | |
born: Lawrence Joseph Henderson 1878 (Lynn, MA, USA) |
| 4 | |
born: Henry C. Beck 1902 (London, England) |
| 5 | |
born: Harry Harmon 1913 (Poland) |
| 6 | |
died: Louis Lumière 1948 (Bandol, France) |
| 7 | |
event: William Playfair 1786 --- Playfair, an inventor of modern graphical designs, published a chart showing the imports and exports of Scotland. [Tufte:1983] |
| 8 | |
born: August Friedrich Wilhelm Crome 1753 (Sengwarden, Germany) |
| 8 | |
died: Harry Harmon 1976 (Princeton, NJ, USA) |
| 11 | |
died: August Friedrich Wilhelm Crome 1833 (Rödelheim, Germany) |
| 13 | |
born: James Clerk Maxwell 1831 (Edinburgh, Scotland) |
| 13 | |
born: Willebrord van Roijen Snell 1580 (Leiden, Netherlands) |
| 16 | |
born: John W. Tukey 1915 (New Bedford, Massachusetts, USA) |
| 16 | |
died: Albert D. Biderman 2003 (McLean, Virginia, USA) |
| 16 | |
died: John Snow 1858 (London, England) |
| 18 | |
died: Edgar Anderson 1969 (St. Louis, Missouri, USA) |
| 19 | |
born: Blaise Pascal 1623 (Clermont-Ferrand, Auvergne, France) |
| 24 | |
born: Johann Friedrich von Charpentier 1738 (Dresden, Germany) |
| 28 | |
died: Vannevar Bush 1974 (Belmont, USA) 50th anniversary |
| 28 | |
died: Abraham Ortelius 1598 (Antwerp, France) |
| 30 | |
died: William Oughtred 1660 (Albury, Surrey, England) |
| 30 | |
event: Pierre Simon Laplace 1821 --- Laplace presents Théorie analytique des probabilités to the Académie des Sciences |
July
| 1 | |
born: Herman Chernoff 1923 (New York, USA) |
| 1 | |
born: U.S. Bureau of the Census 1903 (USA) |
| 1 | |
died: Max Otto Lorenz 1959 (Sunnyvale, California, USA) |
| 2 | |
born: John Hartigan 1937 (Sydney, Australia) |
| 2 | |
born: Francis Amasa Walker 1840 (Boston, MA, USA) |
| 2 | |
event: André-Michel Guerry 1832 --- André-Michel Guerry submits Essai sur la Statistique Morale de la France to Academie Francais des Sciences [Friendly:2007:guerry] |
| 3 | |
born: Léon Lalanne 1811 (Paris, France) |
| 3 | |
died: Valentine Seaman 1817 (Beekman Street, NY, USA) |
| 4 | |
born: Edward Wegman 1943 (Terra Haute, Indiana, USA) |
| 5 | |
died: Joseph Nicephore Niepce 1833 (Saint-Loup-de-Varennes, France) |
| 7 | |
died: Jacques Bertillon 1922 (Valmondois, France) |
| 8 | |
died: Christiaan Huygens 1695 (The Hague, Netherlands) |
| 9 | |
died: Alexander Keith Johnston 1871 (Ben Rhydding, Yorkshire, England) |
| 9 | |
event: Adolphe Quetelet 1831 --- Quetelet names the Average Man |
| 10 | |
born: Albert D. Biderman 1923 (NJ, USA) |
| 10 | |
died: Louis Jacques Mandé Daguerre 1851 (Bry-sur-Marne, France) |
| 10 | |
died: Émile Levasseur 1911 (Paris, France) |
| 11 | |
born: Robert Spence 1933 (Birthplace Hull, Yorkshire, England) |
| 11 | |
died: Nicole Oresme 1382 (Lisieux, France) |
| 14 | |
died: Benjamin Gompertz 1865 (London, England) |
| 17 | |
born: Wilhelm Lexis 1837 (Eschweilier, Germany) |
| 18 | |
died: Christopher Scheiner 1650 (Niesse, Poland) |
| 20 | |
born: Vladimir Kosma Zworykin 1889 (Murom, Russia) |
| 24 | |
died: Emmanuel de Martonne 1955 (Sceaux, France) |
| 25 | |
born: Christopher Scheiner 1575 (Wald, Swabia, Germany) |
| 26 | |
died: John W. Tukey 2000 (New Brunswick, New Jersey, USA) |
| 27 | |
born: Jacques Bertin 1918 (Maisons-Laffitte, France) |
| 27 | |
born: Hans Rosling 1948 (Uppsala, Sweden) |
| 27 | |
died: Johann Friedrich von Charpentier 1805 (Freiberg, Germany) |
| 28 | |
died: Gaspard Monge 1818 (Paris, France) |
| 29 | |
died: Ronald Aylmer Fisher 1962 (Adelaide, Australia) |
| 29 | |
died: Vladimir Kosma Zworykin 1982 (Princeton, NJ, USA) |
| 30 | |
event: William Playfair 1801 --- Playfair introduces the pie chart in his book The Statistical Breviary |
August
| 4 | |
born: John Venn 1834 (Hull, England) |
| 9 | |
died: George Barnard 2002 (Ontario, Canada) |
| 10 | |
died: Henry Gwyn Jeffreys Moseley 1915 (Gallipoli, Turkey) |
| 11 | |
born: Nicolas of Cusa 1401 (Kus, Trier, Germany) |
| 11 | |
died: Nicolas of Cusa 1464 (Todi, Papal States, Italy) |
| 13 | |
died: William Stanley Jevons 1882 (Hastings, England) |
| 13 | |
died: Florence Nightingale 1910 (East Wellow, England) |
| 16 | |
died: Jacob Bernoulli 1715 (Basel, Switzerland) |
| 17 | |
born: Pierre de Fermat 1601 (Beaumont-de-Lomagne, France) |
| 19 | |
died: Blaise Pascal 1662 (Paris, France) |
| 19 | |
died: James Watt 1819 (Handsworth, England) |
| 20 | |
born: Thomas Simpson 1710 (Market Bosworth, Leicestershire, England) --- His 1755 paper, "On the advantages of taking the mean of a number of observations" was the earliest attempt to demonstrate the law of large numbers |
| 20 | |
died: Jan de Witt 1672 (The Hague, Netherlands) |
| 21 | |
born: Ben Shneiderman 1947 (New York, NY, USA) |
| 24 | |
died: Gregorio Fontana 1803 (Milan, Italy) |
| 25 | |
died: Andrew S. C. Ehrenberg 2010 (London, England) |
| 25 | |
died: Michael Faraday 1867 (Hampton Court, Middlesex, England) |
| 26 | |
born: Johann Heinrich Lambert 1728 (Mulhausen, Alsace, France) |
| 27 | |
died: W.E.B. Du Bois 1963 (Acra, Ghana) |
| 28 | |
died: William Smith 1839 (Northampton, England) |
| 31 | |
born: Herman Helmholtz 1821 (Potsdam, Germany) |
| 31 | |
event: John Snow 1854 --- Cholera outbreak in London leads to John Snow's famous dot-map graphic of those who died [Tufte] |
September
| 1 | |
born: William Stanley Jevons 1835 (Liverpool, England) |
| 3 | |
born: Johann Peter Süssmilch 1707 (Zehlendorf, Brandebourg, Germany) |
| 3 | |
born: James Joseph Sylvester 1814 (London, England) |
| 6 | |
died: Georg von Mayr 1925 (Tutzing, Germany) |
| 8 | |
died: Herman Helmholtz 1894 (Charlottenburg, Germany) |
| 9 | |
died: Joseph B. Kruskal 2010 (Maplewood, NJ, USA) |
| 10 | |
event: Francis Galton 1885 --- Galton introduces regression |
| 14 | |
born: Alexander von Humboldt 1769 (Berlin, Germany) |
| 15 | |
born: Leonard Porter Ayres 1879 (Niantic, Connecticut, USA) |
| 18 | |
born: Adrien Marie Legendre 1752 (Paris, France) |
| 18 | |
died: Henry C. Beck 1974 (Southampton, England) 50th anniversary |
| 18 | |
died: Leonhard Euler 1783 (Saint Petersburg, Russia) |
| 19 | |
born: Max Otto Lorenz 1876 (Burlington, Iowa, USA) |
| 21 | |
died: Gerolamo Cardano 1576 (Rome, Italy) |
| 22 | |
born: Michael Faraday 1791 (Newington Butts, Surrey, England) |
| 22 | |
born: William Playfair 1759 (Dundee, Scotland) |
| 23 | |
born: George Barnard 1915 (Walthamstow, London, England) |
| 23 | |
died: Maurice d'Ocagne 1938 (Havre, France) |
| 23 | |
event: Herman Hollerith 1884 --- Herman Hollerith files his first patent application, titled "Art of Compiling Statistics" [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hollerith] |
| 24 | |
born: Gerolamo Cardano 1501 (Pavia, Italy) |
| 24 | |
born: Jan de Witt 1625 (Dordrecht, Netherlands) |
| 25 | |
died: Johann Heinrich Lambert 1777 (Berlin, Germany) |
| 26 | |
born: Vincent P. Barabba 1934 (Chicago, IL, USA) |
| 29 | |
born: Michael George Mulhall 1829 (Dublin, Ireland) |
| 29 | |
born: Alexandre Jean Baptiste Parent-Duchatelet 1790 (Paris, France) |
| 30 | |
died: Louis Leon Thurstone 1955 (Chapel Hill, NC, USA) |
October
| 2 | |
born: Patrick Geddes 1854 (Ballatar, Scotland) |
| 2 | |
died: Heinz Von Foerster 2002 (Pescadero, California, USA) |
| 2 | |
event: Hans Lippershey 1608 --- First known telescrope appeared in the Netherlands [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_telescope#The_first_known_telescopes] |
| 5 | |
born: Louis Lumière 1864 (Besancon, France) |
| 6 | |
born: Baron Pierre Charles Dupin 1784 (Varzy, Nievre, France) |
| 8 | |
born: Ejnar Hertzsprung 1873 (Copenhagen, Denmark) |
| 10 | |
died: Johann Heinrich Schulze 1687 (Germany) |
| 12 | |
died: Edwin A. Abbott 1926 (London, England) |
| 17 | |
died: Herman P. Friedman 2010 (New York, USA) |
| 17 | |
died: Gustav Zeuner 1907 (Dresden, Germany) |
| 18 | |
died: Charles Babbage 1871 (London, England) |
| 19 | |
born: Auguste Lumière 1862 (Besancon, France) |
| 19 | |
died: Charles Wheatstone 1875 (Paris, France) |
| 20 | |
born: Gottfried Achenwall 1719 (Elbing, Germany) |
| 20 | |
born: Christopher Wren 1632 (East Knoyle, Wiltshire, England) |
| 21 | |
died: Ejnar Hertzsprung 1967 (Roskilde, Denmark) |
| 22 | |
born: Alfred Inselberg 1936 (Athens, Greece) |
| 22 | |
event: Gustav Fechner 1850 --- Fechner's Law comes to Fechner in a dream [Stigler:1986,p.243] |
| 24 | |
died: Tycho Brahe 1601 (Prague, Czech Republic) |
| 24 | |
died: Charles Joseph Minard 1870 (Bordeaux, France) |
| 24 | |
died: Wilhelm Schickard 1635 (Tübingen, Germany) |
| 24 | |
event: Charles Joseph Minard 1854 --- Visual explanation: Minard's before/after diagram of the collapse of a bridge on the Rhone [Tufte:1983,p.24] |
| 25 | |
born: Henry Norris Russell 1877 (Osyter Bay, NY, USA) |
| 25 | |
died: Wilhelm Lexis 1914 (Gottingen, Germany) |
| 26 | |
born: Luke Tierney 1954 (New York City, NY, USA) |
| 26 | |
born: Howard Wainer 1943 (New York, NY, USA) |
| 26 | |
event: Karl Pearson 1893 --- Karl Pearson's first statistical publication, a letter to Nature [Stigler:1986, p.331] |
| 27 | |
event: Blaise Pascal 1654 --- Last letter to Pierre de Fermat detailing the beginning of the modern theory of probability. [Ball:1908] |
| 28 | |
born: Pierre-François Verhulst 1804 (Brussels, Belgium) |
| 29 | |
died: Leonard Porter Ayres 1946 (Cleveland, Ohio, USA) |
| 30 | |
born: Howard Taylor Fisher 1903 (Chicago, Illinois, USA) |
| 30 | |
died: Willebrord van Roijen Snell 1626 (Leiden, Netherlands) |
| 31 | |
born: Di Cook 1960 (Penrith, NSW, Australia) |
| 31 | |
died: Mordecai J. B. Ezekial 1974 (Washington, D.C, USA) 50th anniversary |
November
| 5 | |
died: James Clerk Maxwell 1879 (Cambridge, England) |
| 6 | |
born: Aloys Senefelder 1771 (Prague, Czech Republic) |
| 6 | |
born: Arthur L. Bowley 1869 (Bristol, England) |
| 8 | |
born: Edmond Halley 1656 (Haggerston, Shoreditch, England) |
| 9 | |
born: Edgar Anderson 1897 (Forestville, NY, USA) |
| 10 | |
event: John Backus 1954 --- Backus published the first formal proposal for the FORTRAN; first high level language for computing |
| 11 | |
born: Jacques Bertillon 1851 (Paris, France) |
| 12 | |
event: Abraham De Moivre 1733 --- De Moivre's limit to the binomial |
| 13 | |
born: Heinz Von Foerster 1911 (Vienna, Italy) |
| 17 | |
died: Herman Hollerith 1929 (Washington, D.C., USA) |
| 17 | |
event: Ronald Alymer Fisher 1921 --- Fisher reads to the Royal Society his paper "On the mathematical foundations of theoretical statistics" introducing key ideas of consistency, efficiency and sufficiency |
| 18 | |
born: Louis Jacques Mandé Daguerre 1787 (Cormeilles-en-Parisis, France) |
| 18 | |
born: Alban William Housego Phillips 1914 (Te Rehunga, New Zealand) |
| 18 | |
died: Gustav Theodor Fechner 1887 (Leipzig, Germany) |
| 18 | |
event: Thomas de Colmar 1832 --- Thomas de Colmar patents the Arithmometer [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arithmometer] |
| 20 | |
event: Charles J. Minard 1812 --- Minard portrays the horrors of Napolean's Russain campaign, and is one of the first graphs to incorporate space and time. [Tufte:1983; Minard:1869a] |
| 20 | |
event: Charles Joseph Minard 1869 --- Minard's flow map graphic of Napoleon's March on Moscow (called "the best graphic ever produced") [Palsky:1996] |
| 23 | |
born: Henry Gwyn Jeffreys Moseley 1887 (Weymouth, England) |
| 23 | |
died: Charles Booth 1916 (Thringstone, Leicestershire, England) |
| 23 | |
died: Henry Laurence Gantt 1919 (Pine Island, NY, USA) |
| 23 | |
died: Jean Talon 1694 (Chalons-en-Champagne, France) |
| 26 | |
died: Roberto Bachi 1995 (Jerusalem, Israel) |
| 27 | |
born: Stephen E. Fienberg 1942 (Toronto, ON, Canada) |
| 27 | |
died: Abraham de Moivre 1754 (London, England) |
| 27 | |
died: Willard Cope Brinton 1959 |
| 28 | |
born: Luke Howard 1772 (London, England) |
| 28 | |
died: Athanasius Kirscher 1680 (Rome) |
| 30 | |
born: Ernest Florens Friedrich Chladni 1756 (Wittenberg, Germany) |
| 30 | |
born: Gustav Zeuner 1828 (Chemnitz, Germany) |
| 30 | |
event: Charles Dupin 1826 --- Charles Dupin presents first choropleth map, showing rates of literacy in France [Wainer] |
December
| 2 | |
born: Nicolaus Samuel Cruquius 1678 (Vlieland, Netherlands) |
| 2 | |
died: Gerardus Mercator 1594 (Duisburg, Duchy of Cleves, Germany) |
| 3 | |
born: John Backus 1924 (Philadelphia, PA, USA) 100th anniversary |
| 3 | |
born: Richard A. Becker 1887 (Hamburg, Germany) |
| 4 | |
died: Georg Joachim Rheticus 1574 (Kassa, Hungary) 450th anniversary |
| 7 | |
born: Gregorio Fontana 1735 (Villa di Nogaredo, Italy) |
| 8 | |
born: Regnier Gemma-Frisius 1508 (Dokkum, Friesland, Netherlands) |
| 8 | |
born: Émile Levasseur 1828 (Paris, France) |
| 9 | |
born: Grace Hopper 1906 (New York, USA) |
| 10 | |
born: Otto Neurath 1882 (Vienna, Austria) |
| 10 | |
died: Edmund Gunter 1626 (London, England) |
| 11 | |
event: William Petty 1654 --- 1st econometric survey |
| 12 | |
event: John Snow 1854 --- John Snow reports on the cholera outbreak that occurred in England in 1854 to the Cholera Inquiry Committee [Gilbert:1958; Snow:1855] |
| 13 | |
died: Michael George Mulhall 1900 (Dublin, Ireland) |
| 13 | |
died: Niccolo Fontana Tartaglia 1557 (Venice, Italy) |
| 14 | |
died: Stephen E. Fienberg 2016 (Pittsburgh, PA, USA) |
| 14 | |
born: Tycho Brahe 1546 (Knutstorp Castle, Denmark) |
| 14 | |
died: Jacques Barbeu-Dubourg 1779 (Paris, France) |
| 16 | |
died: Guillaume Le Nautonier 1620 (Castelfranc, France) |
| 16 | |
died: William Petty 1687 (London, England) |
| 19 | |
event: Karl Pearson 1894 --- Karl Pearson introduces the Pearson family of densities |
| 20 | |
born: Edwin A. Abbott 1838 (Marylebone, Middlesex, England) |
| 20 | |
event: Francis Galton 1888 --- Galton paper on correlation presented to the Royal Society of London [Stigler:1986,p297] |
| 21 | |
born: Sewall Wright 1889 (Melrose, MA, USA) |
| 22 | |
born: Willard Cope Brinton 1880 (West Chester, PA, USA) |
| 22 | |
died: Otto Neurath 1945 (Oxford, England) |
| 23 | |
died: James Cowles Pritchard 1848 (London, England) |
| 23 | |
event: Thomas Bayes 1763 --- Richard Price reads Bayes's essay to the Royal Society |
| 24 | |
born: André Michel Guerry 1802 (Tours, France) |
| 25 | |
event: Edmond Halley 1758 --- Halley accurately predicts that a comet of 1682 (now called Halley's comet) would reappear in 1758, 15 years after his death. It is the only short period comet that is visible from earth to the naked eye. [http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/history/Biographies/Halley.html] |
| 26 | |
born: Charles Babbage 1791 (London, England) |
| 27 | |
born: Jacob Bernoulli 1654 (Basel, Switzerland) |
| 28 | |
born: Alexander Keith Johnston 1804 (Kirkhill, Scotland) |