Portal:History of science/Selected anniversaries/April 10
- 1651 - Birth of Ehrenfried Walther von Tschirnhaus, German mathematician (d. 1708)
- 1710 - The first law regulating copyright is issued in Great Britain
- 1762 - Birth of Giovanni Aldini, Italian physicist (d. 1834)
- 1813 - Death of Joseph-Louis Lagrange, Italian-born mathematician (b. 1736)
- 1917 - Birth of Robert Burns Woodward, American chemist, Nobel laureate (d. 1979)
- 1920 - Death of Moritz Cantor, German mathematician (b. 1829)
- 1927 - Birth of Marshall Warren Nirenberg, American scientist, Nobel laureate
- 1955 - Death of Teilhard de Chardin, French paleontologist and theologian (b. 1881)