Portal:History of science/Selected anniversaries/February 10

February 10:
 * 1499 - Birth of Thomas Platter, Swiss humanist (d. 1582)
 * 1785 - Birth of Claude-Louis Navier, French physicist (d. 1936)
 * 1846 - Birth of Ira Remsen, American chemist (d. 1927)
 * 1865 - Death of Heinrich Lenz, German physicist (b. 1804)
 * 1891 - Death of Sofia Kovalevskaya, Russian mathematician (b. 1850)
 * 1923 - Death of Wilhelm Röntgen, German physicist, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1845)
 * 1944 - Death of Eugène Michel Antoniadi, Greek astronomer, a crater on Mars and the Antoniadi crater on the Moon were named in his honor (b. 1870)
 * 1996 - The IBM supercomputer Deep Blue defeats Garry Kasparov for the first time