Portal:History of science/Selected anniversaries/October 18

October 18:

• 1547 – Birth of Justus Lipsius, Flemish humanist (d. 1606)

• 1564 – Death of Johannes Acronius Frisius, German physician and mathematician (b. 1520)

• 1871 – Death of Charles Babbage, English mathematician and inventor (b. 1791)

• 1902 – Birth of Pascual Jordan, German physicist (d. 1980)

• 1967 - The Soviet probe Venera 4 reaches Venus and becomes the first spacecraft to measure the atmosphere of another planet