Portal:History of science/Selected anniversaries/December 29

December 29:

 * 1689 - Death of Thomas Sydenham, English physician (b. 1624)


 * 1731 - Death of Brook Taylor, English mathematician (b. 1685)


 * 1737 - Death of Joseph Saurin, French mathematician (b. 1659)


 * 1796 - Birth of Johann Christian Poggendorff, German physicist (d. 1877)


 * 1800 - Birth of Charles Goodyear, American inventor (d. 1860)


 * 1856 - Birth of Thomas Joannes Stieltjes, Dutch mathematician (d. 1894)


 * 1891 - Death of Leopold Kronecker, German mathematician (b. 1823)


 * 2004 - Death of Julius Axelrod, American biochemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1912)