Portal:History of science/Selected anniversaries/November 14

November 14:

• 1716 – Death of Gottfried Leibniz, German philosopher and mathematician (b. 1646)

• 1746 – Death of Georg Steller, German naturalist (b. 1709)

• 1771 – Birth of Marie François Xavier Bichat, French anatomist and physiologist (d. 1802)

• 1797 – Birth of Charles Lyell, British geologist (d. 1875)

• 1863 – Birth of Leo Hendrik Baekeland, Flemish-American chemist and inventor of the first synthetic plastic, Bakelite (d. 1944)

• 1896 – The Glasgow Subway, the third-oldest underground metro system in the world, opened

• 1916 – Birth of Roger Apéry, Greek-French mathematician (d. 1994)

• 1932 – Birth of Gunter Sachs, German mathematician

• 2007 – The last direct-current electrical distribution system in the United States is shut down in New York City by Con Edison.