Portal:History of science/Selected anniversaries/November 8
- 1602 – The Bodleian Library at Oxford University is opened to the public
- 1656 – Birth of Edmond Halley, British astronomer and mathematician (d. 1742)
- 1719 – Death of Michel Rolle, French mathematician (b. 1652)
- 1848 – Birth of Gottlob Frege, German mathematician and logician (d. 1925)
- 1854 – Birth of Johannes Rydberg, Swedish physicist (d. 1919)
- 1868 – Birth of Felix Hausdorff, German mathematician (d. 1942)
- 1885 – Birth of Hans Cloos, German geologist (d. 1951)
- 1895 – While experimenting with electricity, Wilhelm Röntgen discovers the X-ray