Portal:History of science/Selected anniversaries/June 14

June 14
 * 1444 (O.S.) - Birth of Nilakantha Somayaji, Indian mathematician (d. 1544)
 * 1726 - Birth of James Hutton, Scottish geologist (d. 1797)
 * 1736 - Birth of Charles Augustin de Coulomb, French physicist (d. 1806)
 * 1746 - Death of Colin Maclaurin, Scottish mathematician (b. 1698)
 * 1856 - Birth of Andrey Markov, Russian mathematician (d. 1922)
 * 1868 - Birth of Karl Landsteiner, Austrian biologist, physician, and Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1943)
 * 1903 - Birth of Alonzo Church, American mathematician and logician (d. 1995)
 * 1917 - Birth of Atle Selberg, Norwegian mathematician
 * 1920 - Death of Max Weber, German sociologist (b. 1864)
 * 1962 - The European Space Research Organisation is established in Paris&mdash;later becoming the European Space Agency.
 * 1967 - Mariner 5 is launched toward Venus.
 * 1967 - The People's Republic of China tests its first hydrogen bomb.