Portal:History of science/Selected anniversaries/September 16
- 1666 - Birth of Antoine Parent, French mathematician (d. 1716)
- 1725 - Birth of Nicolas Desmarest, French geologist (d. 1815)
- 1736 - Death of Gabriel Fahrenheit, German physicist (b. 1686)
- 1925 - Death of Alexander Alexandrovich Friedman, Russian physicist (b. 1888)