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1879
- Albert Einstein, born (Mar 14)
- Gottlob Frege, Begriffsschrift
1882
- James Joyce, born (Feb 2)
1883
- Franz Kafka, born (Jul 3)
1885
- Niels Bohr, born (Oct 7)
- Velimir Khlebnikov, born (Oct 28)
1890
- Arthur Rimbaud, gone (Nov 10)
1892
- Burroughs Adding Machine, born
- Pierre Drieu la Rochelle, born (Jan 3)
1894
- Louis-Ferdinand Céline, born (May 27)
1896
- André Breton, born (Feb 18)
- Samuel Rosenstock (Tristan Tzara), born (Apr 16)
- Antonin Artaud, born (Sep 4)
1899
- David Hilbert, Grundlagen der Geometrie
1900
- Bertrand Russell, The Philosophy of Leibniz
1901
- Michel Leiris, born (Apr 20)
- Werner Heisenberg, born
- Louis Couturat, La logique de Leibniz
- Maurice Maeterlinck, La vie des abeilles
1903
- Janos (John von) Neumann, born (Dec 28)
1904
- Robert Oppenheimer, born (Apr 22)
1905
1906
- Kurt Gödel, born (Apr 28)
- Samuel Beckett, born (May 13)
- Roberto Bonola, La Geometria non-Euclidea
1909
- Robert Brasillach, born (Mar 31)
- Marinetti, Le Futurisme (Le Figaro, Feb 20)
1910
- Jean Genet, born (Dec 12)
- Paul Bowles, born (Dec 30)
- Raymond Roussel, Impressions d'Afrique
- Whitehead & Russell, Principia mathematica ( -1913)
- Alexandr Skryabin (Scriabin), Prometheus
1913
- Paul Linebarger (Cordwainer Smith), born (Jul 11)
- Paul Scheerbart, Lesabéndio : Ein Asteroidenroman
1914
- William S. Burroughs, born (Feb 5)
- Raymond Roussel, Locus Solus
1915
- Alice Hastings Bradley (James Tiptree Jr.), born (Aug 24)
- Scheerbart, gone (Oct 15)
1918
- Edward Hamilton Waldo (Theodore Sturgeon), born (Feb 26)
1920
- Paul Antschel (Paul Celan), born (Nov 23)
- NSDAP (NAtionalsoZIalistische Deutsche Arbeitpartei = so-called "NAZI"), born
1922
- Khlebnikov, gone (Jun 28)
- Joyce, Ulysses
1923
- Diane Arbus, born (Mar 14)
- Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Sämtliche Schriften und Briefe (so-called "Akademie" collection)
1924
1926
- Amazing Stories, born (the 1st science fiction magazine)
1928
- Philip K. Dick, born (Dec 16)
1930
- James G. Ballard, born (Nov 15)
- Alfred Rosenberg, Der Mythos des 20. Jahrhunderts
1931
- Gödel, Über formal unentscheidbare Sätze der Principia Mathematica und verwandter System I
1932
- Céline, Voyage au bout de la nuit
1933
1935
- Olaf Stapledon, Star Maker
1936
- Alan Turing, On computable numbers, with an application to the Entscheidungsproblem (Turing Machine, born)
1938
- Lise Meitner and Otto Frisch, theory of nuclear fission (Dec 24)
1939
- Joyce, Finnegans Wake
- Flann O'Brien, At Swim-Two-Birds
- Robert Brasillach, Les sept couleurs
- A. E. van Vogt, Black Destroyer (Astounding, Jul)
1940
- Pierre Guyotat, born (Jan 9)
- Francis (Frank) Vincent Zappa, born (Dec 21)
- Walter Benjamin, killed himself (Sep 27)
- Captain Future ( -1944, quarterly)
1941
1942
- Brian Jones, born (Feb 28)
- Samuel R. Delany, born (Apr 1)
1943
- Reinaldo Arenas, born (Jul 16)
- Nikola Tesla, gone (Jan 7)
- Simone Weil, gone (Aug 24)
1945
- Robert Wyatt Ellidge, born (Jan 28)
- Brasillach, executed (Feb 6)
- Drieu la Rochelle, killed himself (Mar 16)
- Trinity (the first nuclear bomb. Alamogordo, New Mexico, USA, 5:30 am, Jul 16)
1946
1947
- CIA (Central Intelligence Agency), born
(1941-46, Office of Strategic Services / 1946-47, Central Intelligence Group)
1950
- Theodore Sturgeon, The Dreaming Jewels
- Cordwainer Smith, Scanners Live in Vain (Fantasy Book, vol. 6)
1952
- Mike, exploded (the first hydrogen bomb. Enewatak Atoll, Marshall Islands, Pacific Ocean, 7:15 am, Nov 1)
- Paul Celan, Mohn und Gedächtnis
1953
- Dylan Thomas, gone (Nov 9)
- Alfred Bester, The Demolished Man
- Sturgeon, More Than Human
1955
- Einstein, gone (Apr 18)
- Glenn Gould, Goldberg Variations
1956
1957
- von Neumann, gone (Feb 8)
1959
- Blixa Bargeld, born (Jan 12)
- Burroughs, The Naked Lunch
1960
- LISP, born (by John MaCarthy)
- Claude Simon, La Route des Flandres
1962
- Roger Nimier, gone by crash (Sep)
1963
- Paul J. Cohen, The independence of the continuum hypothesis I
1965
- Albert Ayler Trio, Spiritual Unity
1966
- Cordwainer Smith, gone (Aug 6)
- Thomas Pynchon, The Crying of Lot 49
- Frances A. Yates, The Art of Memory
1967
- Flann O'Brien, The Third Policeman (written in 1940)
1968
- Delany, Nova
- Dick, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
- Thomas M. Disch, Camp Concentration
- Tiptree, Birth of a Salesman (Analog, March, debut)
- Dictionary of the History of Ideas, born ( -1974)
1969
- ARPAnet, born
- UNIX, born (by Ken Thompson)
- Pascal, born (by Niklaus Wirth)
- Apollo 11 on the moon
- Beckett, Nobel Prize
- Céline, Rigodon
- Georges Perec, La Disparition (a novel with no "e"s)
- Can, Monster Movie
- King Crimson, The Court of Crimson King
1970
- Paul Celan, gone (Apr)
- PARC (The Xerox Palo Alto Research Center), born
- Guyotat, Eden, Eden, Eden
1971
- Henri Corbin, En islam iranien ( -1972)
1972
- Altair (the first commercial Personal Computer)
- C, born (by Dennis Ritchie)
- Klaus Schulze, Irlicht
- Faust, Faust, So Far
1973
- Thomas Pynchon, Gravity's Rainbow
- Fripp & Eno, No Pussyfooting
- Henry Cow, Leg End
- King Crimson, Lark's Tongues in Aspic
- Mike Oldfield, Tubular Bells
- Pink Floyd, The Dark Side of the Moon
- Lou Reed, Berlin
1974
- Alfred Bester, Computer Connection
- Kraftwerk, Autobahn
- Slapp Happy, Slapp Happy
- Robert Wyatt, Rock Bottom
1975
- Hiroshima Toyo Carp, won the Central-League pennant of Japanese professional baseball
1976
- Apple Computer Inc., founded (Apr 1)
- Emacs, born (by Richard M. Stallman)
- Viking 1 and 2 on Mars
1977
- Apple ][, born (Apr)
- Bruce Chatwin, In Patagonia
- Ultravox, Ultravox !
1978
- Gödel, gone (Jan 14)
- RSA (Rabin, Shamir and Adelman) cryptosystem (First public-key cryptosystem)
- Georges Perec, La Vie mode d'emploi
1979
- Jef Raskin, imagines original Macintosh
- Joy Division, Unknown Pleasures
- This Heat, This Heat
- The Pop Group, Y
- Public Image Limited, Metal Box
- Douglas R. Hofstadter, GÖDEL, ESCHER, BACH
1980
- Ian Curtis, killed himself (May 18)
1982
- Dick, gone (Mar 2)
- Perec, gone (Mar 3)
- Rudy Rucker, Infinity and the Mind
- David Marr, Vision
- Ridley Scott, Bladerunner
1983
- Family Computer (Nintendo Entertainment System), born
1984
- Macintosh 128K, debut (Jan)
1985
- Italo Calvino, gone (Sep 18)
- Steve Jobbs, left Apple (Sep 17)
1986
- Genet, gone (Apr 15)
- Perl, born (by Larry Wall)
- Genet, Un Captif amoureux
1987
- Andy Wahol, gone (Feb 22)
- Tiptree, killed his husband and himself (May 19)
- Bester, gone (Sep 30)
1988
- NeXT Computer, first presentation (Oct 12)
1989
- NEXTSTEP 1.0, brought to market (Sep 18)
1990
- Michel Leiris, gone
- Reinaldo Arenas, killed himself (Dec 7)
1991
- Linux, born (around Linus Torvalds)
1992
- Bruce Sterling, The Hacker Crackdown
1995
- Andrew Wiles, solved Fermat's last theorem
1997
- Burroughs, gone by heart attack (Aug 2)
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