Science history 28 October

 October 28:

• 1703 – Birth of Antoine Deparcieux, French mathematician (d. 1768)

• 1703 – Death of John Wallis, English mathematician (b. 1616)

• 1792 – Death of Paul Möhring, German physician and scientist (b. 1710)

• 1804 – Birth of Pierre François Verhulst, Belgian mathematician (d. 1849)

• 1841 – Death of Johan August Arfwedson, Swedish chemist (b. 1792)

• 1845 – Birth of Zygmunt Florenty Wróblewski, Polish physicist (d. 1888)

• 1877 – Death of Robert Swinhoe, British naturalist (b. 1835)

• 1914 – Birth of Jonas Salk, American biologist and physician (d. 1995)

• 1914 – Birth of Richard Laurence Millington Synge, Nobel laureate (d. 1994)

• 1918 – Death of Ulisse Dini, Italian mathematician (b. 1845)

• 1957 – Death of Ernst Gräfenberg, German physician and scientist (b. 1881)

• 1960 – Birth of Landon Curt Noll, Astronomer, Cryptographer and Mathematician: youngest to hold the world record for the largest known prime 3 times

• 1970 - Gary Gabelich sets a land speed record in a rocket-powered automobile called the Blue Flame, fueled with natural gas

• 2005 – Death of Richard Smalley, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1943)

All details are from Wikipedia