Portal:History of science/Selected anniversaries/July 26

July 26:

 * 1684 - Death of Elena Cornaro Piscopia, Italian mathematician (b. 1646)


 * 1925 - Death of Gottlob Frege, German mathematician and logician (b. 1848)


 * 1941 - Death of Henri Lebesgue, French mathematician (b. 1875


 * 1960 - Death of Maud Menten, Canadian biochemist (b. 1879)


 * 1963 - Syncom 2, the world's first geosynchronous satellite, is launched from Cape Canaveral on a Delta B booster