Portal:History of science/Selected anniversaries/August 26
- 1723 - Death of Anton van Leeuwenhoek, Dutch scientist (b. 1632)
- 1728 - Birth of Johann Heinrich Lambert, German scientist (d. 1777)
- 1736 - Birth of Jean-Baptiste L. Romé de l'Isle, French chemist (d. 1790)
- 1743 - Birth of Antoine Lavoisier, French chemist (d. 1794)
- 1865 - Death of Johann Franz Encke, German astronomer (b. 1791)
- 1987 - Death of Georg Wittig, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1897)
- 1998 - Death of Frederick Reines, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1918)
- 2000 - Death of Akbar Adibi, Iranian scientist (b. 1939)