Portal:History of science/Selected anniversaries/July 14

July 14:

• 1671 - Birth of Jacques D'Allonville, French astronomer and mathematician (d. 1732)

• 1696 - Birth of William Oldys, English antiquarian and bibliographer (d. 1761)

• 1827 - Death of Augustin-Jean Fresnel, French physicist (b. 1788)

• 1891 - Birth of Alexander M. Volkov, Russian novelist and mathematician (d. 1977)

• 1907 - Death of William Henry Perkin, English chemist and inventor (b. 1838)

• 1924 - Birth of James W. Black, Scottish pharmacologist, Nobel laureate

• 1965 - The Mariner 4 flyby of Mars takes the first close-up photos of another planet