Portal:History of science/Selected anniversaries/June 12
- 1577 - Birth of Paul Guldin, Swiss astronomer and mathematician (d. 1643)
- 1812 - Birth of Edmond Hébert, French geologist (d. 1890)
- 1843 - Birth of David Gill, Scottish astronomer (d. 1914)
- 1885 - Death of Fleeming Jenkin, British engineer (b. 1833)
- 1899 - Birth of Fritz Albert Lipmann, American biochemist and Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1986)
- 1942 - Birth of Bert Sakmann, German physiologist and Nobel Prize laureate
- 1982 - Death of Karl von Frisch, Austrian zoologist and Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1886)
- 2003 - The Science Council, the umbrella body for scientific professional institutes and learned societies in the UK, is granted a royal charter.