Portal:History of science/Selected anniversaries/August 6
- 1694 - Death of Antoine Arnauld, French philosopher and mathematician (b. 1612)
- 1753 - Death of Georg Wilhelm Richmann, Russian physicist (struck by lightning) (b. 1711)
- 1766 - Birth of William Hyde Wollaston, English chemist (d. 1828)
- 1845 - The Russian Geographical Society is founded in Saint Petersburg
- 1881 - Birth of Alexander Fleming, Scottish scientist, Nobel laureate (d. 1955)
- 1900 - Birth of Cecil H. Green, American geophysicist (d. 2003)
- 1979 - Feodor Felix Konrad Lynen, German biochemist, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1911)
- 1991 - Tim Berners-Lee releases files describing his idea for the World Wide Web. WWW debuts as a publicly available service on the Internet
- 1998 - Death of André Weil, French mathematician (b. 1906)