Portal:History of science/Selected anniversaries/September 18

September 18:

 * 1752 - Birth of Adrien-Marie Legendre, French mathematician (d. 1833)


 * 1783 - Death of Leonhard Euler, Swiss mathematician (b. 1707)


 * 1819 - Birth of Léon Foucault, French physicist (d. 1868)


 * 1891 - Death of William Ferrel, American mathematician (b. 1817)


 * 1896 - Death of Hippolyte Fizeau, French physicist (b. 1819)


 * 1907 - Birth of Edwin McMillan, Nobel laureate (d. 1991)


 * 1959 - Vanguard 3 is launched into Earth orbit


 * 1967 - Death of John Cockcroft, British physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1897)


 * 1977 - Death of Paul Bernays, Swiss mathematician (b. 1888)


 * 1984 - Joe Kittinger completes the first solo balloon crossing of the Atlantic