Portal:History of science/Selected anniversaries/August 11
- 1464 - Death of Nicholas of Cusa, German philosopher and mathematician (b. 1401)
- 1578 - Death of Pedro Nunes, Portuguese mathematician (b. 1502)
- 1851 - Death of Lorenz Oken, German naturalist (b. 1779)
- 1854 - Death of Macedonio Melloni, Italian physicist (b. 1798)
- 1905 - Birth of Erwin Chargaff, Austrian biochemist (d. 2002)
- 1912 - Birth of Eva Ahnert-Rohlfs, German astronomer (d. 1954)
- 1926 - Birth of Aaron Klug, Lithuanian-born chemist, Nobel Prize Laureate
- 1938 - Birth of Branko Stanovnik, Slovenian chemist
- 1956 - Birth of Pierre-Louis Lions, French mathematician
- 2003 - Death of Armand Borel, Swiss mathematician (b. 1923)