Portal:History of science/Selected anniversaries/May 4

1566 - Death of Luca Ghini, Italian physician and botanist (b. 1490)
1677 - Death of Isaac Barrow, English mathematician (b. 1630)
1733 - Birth of Jean-Charles de Borda, French mathematician, physicist, political scientist, and sailor (d. 1799)
1808 - The Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences is founded by Louis Bonaparte.
1825 - Birth of Thomas Henry Huxley, English biologist (d. 1895)
1972 - The Don't Make A Wave Committee, a fledgling environmental organization founded in Canada in 1971, officially changed its name to "Greenpeace Foundation."
1972 - Death of Edward Calvin Kendall, American chemist and Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1886)