Portal:History of science/Selected anniversaries/September 2
- 1764 - Death of Nathaniel Bliss, English Astronomer Royal (b. 1700)
- 1768 - Death of Antoine Deparcieux, French mathematician (b. 1703)
- 1850 - Birth of Woldemar Voigt, German physicist (d. 1919)
- 1853 - Birth of Wilhelm Ostwald, German chemist, Nobel laureate (d. 1932)
- 1859 - A solar super storm affects electrical telegraph service
- 1865 - Death of William Rowan Hamilton, Irish mathematician (b. 1805)
- 1877 - Birth of Frederick Soddy, British chemist, Nobel laureate (d. 1956)