Portal:History of science/Selected anniversaries/November 4

November 4:

 * 1652 – Death of Jean-Charles de la Faille, Flemish mathematician (b. 1597)


 * 1698 – Death of Rasmus Bartholin, Danish physician and mathematician (b. 1625)


 * 1765 – Birth of Pierre Girard, French mathematician (d. 1836)


 * 1890 – City & South London Railway: London's first deep-level tube railway opens between King William Street and Stockwell


 * 1908 – Birth of Józef Rotblat, Polish physicist, Nobel laureate (d. 2005)


 * 1984 – Dell Computers is founded as PC's Limited


 * 1986 – Death of Kurt Hirsch, German mathematician (b. 1906)