Portal:History of science/Selected anniversaries/April 19

April 19:

 * 1567 - Death of Michael Stifel, German mathematician (b. 1487)


 * 1739 - Death of Nicholas Saunderson, English mathematician


 * 1770 - Captain James Cook sights Australia


 * 1831 - Death of Johann Gottlieb Friedrich von Bohnenberger, German mathematician (b. 1765)


 * 1854 - Death of Robert Jameson, Scottish naturalist (b. 1774)


 * 1874 - Birth of Ernst Rüdin, Swiss psychiatrist, geneticist, and eugenicist (d. 1952)


 * 1882 - Death of Charles Darwin, English biologist (b. 1809)


 * 1883 - Birth of Richard von Mises, Austrian-born mathematician (d. 1953)


 * 1892 - Charles Duryea claims to have driven the first automobile in the United States, in Springfield, Massachusetts


 * 1906 - Death of Pierre Curie, French physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1859)


 * 1912 - Birth of Glenn Seaborg, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1999)


 * 1914 - Death of Charles Sanders Peirce, American philosopher and mathematician (b. 1839)


 * 2004 - Death of John Maynard Smith, English biologist (b. 1920)