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)