Portal:History of science/Selected anniversaries/March 29

March 29:

 * 1772 - Death of Emanuel Swedenborg, Swedish philosopher and mathematician (b. 1688)


 * 1873 - Birth of Tullio Levi-Civita, Italian mathematician (d. 1941)


 * 1873  - Death of Francesco Zantedeschi, Italian physicist (b. 1797)


 * 1912 - Death of Edward Adrian Wilson, English physician and naturalist - member of the Scott Expedition to the South Pole (b. 1872)


 * 1927 - Birth of John Robert Vane, English pharmacologist, Nobel laureate (d. 2004)


 * 1929 - Birth of Richard Lewontin, American biologist


 * 1941 - Birth of Joseph Hooton Taylor, Jr., American astrophysicist, Nobel laureate


 * 1965 - Birth of Emilios T. Harlaftis, Greek astrophysicist (d. 2005)


 * 1974 - NASA's Mariner 10 becomes the first spaceprobe to fly by Mercury. It was launched on November 3, 1973