Portal:History of science/Selected anniversaries/December 13

December 13:

 * 1048 - Death of Al-Biruni, Persian mathematician (b. 973)


 * 1516 - Death of Johannes Trithemius, German cryptographer (b. 1462)


 * 1557 - Death of Niccolo Fontana Tartaglia, Italian mathematician


 * 1565 - Death of Conrad Gessner, Swiss naturalist (b. 1516)


 * 1603 - Death of François Viète, French mathematician (b. 1540)


 * 1640 - Birth of Robert Plot, English naturalist (d. 1696)


 * 1662 - Birth of Francesco Bianchini, Italian philosopher and scientist (d. 1729)


 * 1724 - Birth of Franz Aepinus, German scientist (d. 1802)


 * 1783 - Death of Pehr Wilhelm Wargentin, Swedish astronomer (b. 1717)


 * 1816 - Birth of Ernst Werner von Siemens, German engineer, inventor, and industrialist (d. 1892)


 * 1867 - Birth of Kristian Birkeland, Norwegian explorer and scientist (d. 1917)


 * 1868 - Death of Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius, German botanist (b. 1794)


 * 1887 - Birth of George Pólya, Hungarian-born mathematician (d. 1985)


 * 1895 - Death of Ányos Jedlik, Hungarian physicist (b. 1800)


 * 1919 - Death of Woldemar Voigt, German physicist (b. 1850)


 * 1923 - Birth of Philip Warren Anderson, American physicist, Nobel laureate


 * 1930 - Death of Fritz Pregl, Slovenian/Austrian chemist, Nobel laureate (b. 1869)


 * 1935 - Death of Victor Grignard, French chemist, Nobel laureate (b. 1871)


 * 1940 - Death of Jacques-Arsène d'Arsonval, French physicist (b. 1851)


 * 1950 - Death of Abraham Wald, Hungarian mathematician (b. 1902)


 * 1962 - NASA "Relay 1" launch, first active repeater communications satellite in orbit