Portal:History of science/Selected anniversaries/August 17

August 17:

 * 1601 - Birth of Pierre de Fermat, French mathematician (d. 1665)


 * 1673 - Death of Regnier de Graaf, Dutch physician and anatomist (b. 1641)


 * 1863 - Birth of Gene Stratton-Porter, American author and naturalist (d. 1924)


 * 1969 - Death of Otto Stern, German physicist, Nobel laureate (b. 1888)


 * 1970 - Venera Program: Venera 7 launched. It will later become the first spacecraft to successfully transmit data from the surface of another planet (Venus)


 * 1993 - Death of Feng Kang, Chinese mathematician (b. 1920)


 * 2004 - MD5 collision found by Chinese researchers


 * 2005 - Death of John Bahcall, American astrophysicist (b. 1934)