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