Portal:History of science/Selected anniversaries/September 19

September 19:

 * 1693 - Death of Janez Vajkard Valvasor, Slovenian polymath (b. 1641)


 * 1710 - Death of Ole Rømer, Danish astronomer (b. 1644)


 * 1749 - Birth of Jean Baptiste Joseph Delambre, French mathematician (d. 1822)


 * 1843 - Death of Gaspard-Gustave Coriolis, French scientist (b. 1792)


 * 1888 - Birth of J. W. Alexander, American mathematician (d. 1971)


 * 1926 - Birth of Masatoshi Koshiba, Japanese physicist, Nobel Prize laureate


 * 1957 - First American underground nuclear bomb test


 * 1995 - Death of Orville Redenbacher, American botanist and businessman (b. 1907)