Portal:History of science/Selected anniversaries/September 8
- 1588 - Birth of Marin Mersenne, French mathematician (d. 1648)
- 1811 - Death of Peter Simon Pallas, German zoologist (b. 1741)
- 1882 - Death of Joseph Liouville, French mathematician (b. 1809)
- 1918 - Birth of Derek Harold Richard Barton, British chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1998)
- 1965 - Death of Hermann Staudinger, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1881)
- 1980 - Death of Willard Libby, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1908)
- 1981 - Death of Hideki Yukawa, Japanese physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1907)
- 1985 - Death of John Franklin Enders, American scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1887)