Portal:History of science/Selected anniversaries/April 16
- 1495 - Birth of Petrus Apianus, German mathematician (d. 1557)
- 1728 - Birth of Joseph Black, Scottish chemist (d. 1799)
- 1783 - Death of Christian Mayer, Czech astronomer (b. 1719)
- 1788 - Death of Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon, French naturalist (b. 1707)
- 1823 - Birth of Ferdinand Eisenstein, German mathematician (d. 1852)
- 1858 - The Wernerian Natural History Society, a former Scottish learned society, is wound up
- 1888 - Death of Zygmunt Florenty Wróblewski, Polish physicist (b. 1845)
- 1899 - Birth of Osman Achmatowicz, Polish chemist (d. 1988)
- 1919 - Birth of Tom Willmore, English geometer (d. 2005)
- 1958 - Death of Rosalind Franklin, British chemist (b. 1920)
- 1998 - Death of Alberto Calderón, Argentine mathematician (b. 1920)
- 2007 - Death of Frank Bateson, New Zealand astronomer (b. 1909)
- 2008 - Death of Edward Lorenz, American mathematician and meteorologist (b. 1917)