Portal:History of science/Selected anniversaries/October 25

October 25:

• 1647 – Death of Evangelista Torricelli, Italian physicist and mathematician (b. 1608)

• 1733 – Death of Giovanni Gerolamo Saccheri, Italian mathematician (b. 1667)

• 1811 – Birth of Évariste Galois, French mathematician (d. 1832)

• 1856 – Birth of Dragutin Gorjanovic-Kramberger, Croatian paleontologist (d. 1936)

• 1910 – Birth of William Higinbotham, American physicist (d. 1994)

• 1915 – Birth of Ivan M. Niven, Canadian mathematician (d. 1999)