Portal:History of science/Selected anniversaries/July 13

July 13:

 * 1527 - Birth of John Dee, English scientist (d. 1609)


 * 1762 - Death of James Bradley, English Astronomer Royal (b. 1693)


 * 1896 - Death of Friedrich August Kekulé von Stradonitz, German chemist (b. 1829)


 * 1921 - Death of Gabriel Lippmann, Luxembourg scientist (b. 1845)


 * 1932 - Birth of Hubert Reeves, Canadian astrophysicist


 * 1974 - Death of Patrick Blackett, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1897)