Portal:History of science/Selected anniversaries/November 23
- 1553 – Birth of Prospero Alpini, Italian physician and botanist (d. 1617)
- 1616 – Birth of John Wallis, English mathematician (d. 1703)
- 1644 – Areopagitica, a pamphlet decrying censorship, and written by John Milton is published
- 1783 – Death of Yoriyuki Arima, Japanese mathematician (b. 1714)
- 1820 – Birth of Isaac Todhunter, British mathematician (d. 1884)
- 1837 – Birth of Johannes Diderik van der Waals, Dutch physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1923)
- 1887 – Birth of Henry Moseley, English physicist (d. 1915)
- 1889 – The first jukebox goes into operation at the Palais Royale Saloon in San Francisco
- 1902 – Death of Walter Reed, American bacteriologist (b. 1851)
- 1937 – Death of Jagdish Chandra Bose, Indian physicist (b. 1858)
- 1937 – Death of George Albert Boulenger, Belgian naturalist (b. 1858)