Portal:History of science/Selected anniversaries/August 19

August 19:

 * 1646 - Birth of John Flamsteed, English astronomer (d. 1719)


 * 1662 - Death of Blaise Pascal, French mathematician, physicist, and philosopher (b. 1623)


 * 1822 - Death of Jean Baptiste Joseph Delambre, French mathematician (b. 1749)


 * 1913 - Birth of John Argyris, Greek aeronautical engineer, one of the creators of the Finite Element Method (d. 2004)


 * 1950 - Death of Giovanni Giorgi, Italian physicist (b. 1871)


 * 1968 - Death of George Gamow, Ukrainian-born physicist (b. 1904)


 * 1994 - Death of Linus Pauling, American chemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry and Peace (b. 1901)