Portal:History of science/Selected anniversaries/August 8
- 1518 - Birth of Conrad Lycosthenes, French-born German humanist and encyclopedist (d. 1561)
- 1555 - Death of Oronce Finé, French mathematician (b. 1494)
- 1828 - Death of Carl Peter Thunberg, Swedish naturalist (b. 1743)
- 1876 - Thomas Edison receives a patent for his mimeograph
- 1901 - Birth of Ernest O. Lawrence, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1958)
- 1902 - Birth of Paul Dirac, English physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1984)
- 1911 - The millionth patent is filed in the United States Patent Office by Francis Holton for a tubeless vehicle tire
- 1921 - Birth of John Herbert Chapman, British physicist (d. 1979)
- 1931 - Birth of Sir Roger Penrose, British physicist
- 1968 - Jurō Wada successfully performs Japan's first heart transplant
- 1987 - Death of Danilo Blanuša, Croatian mathematician (b. 1903)
- 1996 - Death of Nevill Mott, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1905)