Portal:History of science/Selected anniversaries/October 10
- 1708 – Death of David Gregory, Scottish astronomer (b. 1659)
- 1731 – Birth of Henry Cavendish, British scientist (d. 1810)
- 1876 – Death of Charles Joseph Sainte-Claire Deville, French geologist (b. 1814)
- 1930 – Birth of Yves Chauvin, French chemist, Nobel laureate
- 1930 – Death of Adolf Engler, German botanist (b. 1844)
- 1936 – Birth of Gerhard Ertl, German surface chemist, Nobel laureate, 2007
- 1967 – The Outer Space Treaty, signed on January 27 by more than sixty nations, comes into force
- 1986 – Death of Gleb Wataghin, Ukrainian-Italian physicist (b. 1899)