Portal:History of science/Selected anniversaries/January 16
- 1477 - Birth of Johannes Schöner, German astronomer and cartographer (d. 1547)
- 1547 - Death of Johannes Schöner, German astronomer and cartographer (b. 1477)
- 1554 - Death of Christiern Pedersen, Danish humanist (b. 1480)
- 1834 - Death of Jean Nicolas Pierre Hachette, French mathematician (b. 1769)
- 1856 - Death of Thaddeus William Harris, American naturalist (b. 1795)
- 1875 - Birth of Leonor Michaelis, German enzyme kinetic theorist (d. 1947)
- 1909 - Ernest Shackleton's expedition finds the magnetic South Pole
- 1932 - Birth of Dian Fossey, American zoologist (d. 1985)
- 1967 - Death of Robert J. Van de Graaff, American nuclear physicist (b. 1901)
- 2002 - Death of Robert Hanbury Brown, British-Australian astronomer and physicist (b. 1916)