Portal:History of science/Selected anniversaries/October 10

October 10:

 * 1708 – Death of David Gregory, Scottish astronomer (b. 1659)


 * 1731 – Birth of Henry Cavendish, British scientist (d. 1810)


 * 1876 – Death of Charles Joseph Sainte-Claire Deville, French geologist (b. 1814)


 * 1930 – Birth of Yves Chauvin, French chemist, Nobel laureate


 * 1930  – Death of Adolf Engler, German botanist (b. 1844)


 * 1936 – Birth of Gerhard Ertl, German surface chemist, Nobel laureate, 2007


 * 1967 – The Outer Space Treaty, signed on January 27 by more than sixty nations, comes into force


 * 1986 – Death of Gleb Wataghin, Ukrainian-Italian physicist (b. 1899)