Portal:History of science/Selected anniversaries/December 31

December 31:

 * 1514 – Birth of Andreas Vesalius, Flemish anatomist (d. 1564)


 * 1610 – Death of Ludolph van Ceulen, German mathematician (b. 1540)


 * 1679 – Death of Giovanni Alfonso Borelli, Italian physiologist and physicist (b. 1608)


 * 1719 – Death of John Flamsteed, English astronomer (b. 1646)


 * 1879 – Thomas Edison demonstrates incandescent lighting to the public for the first time


 * 1894 – Death of Thomas Joannes Stieltjes, Dutch mathematician (b. 1856)


 * 1905 – Death of Alexander Popov, Russian physicist (b. 1859)


 * 1937 – Birth of Avram Hershko, Israeli biologist, Nobel laureate


 * 2003 – Death of Arthur R. von Hippel German-born physicist (b. 1898)