Portal:History of science/Selected anniversaries/November 19
- 1700 – Birth of Jean-Antoine Nollet, French abbot and physicist (d. 1770)
- 1711 – Birth of Mikhail Lomonosov, Russian writer and polymath (d. 1765)
- 1822 – Death of Johann Georg Tralles, German mathematician and physicist (b. 1763)
- 1834 – Birth of Georg Hermann Quincke, German physicist (d. 1924)
- 1887 – Birth of James B. Sumner, American chemist, Nobel Prize in Chemistry laureate (d. 1955)
- 1900 – Birth of Mikhail Lavrentyev, Russian scientist (d. 1980)
- 1912 – Birth of George Emil Palade, Romanian cell biologist, Nobel laureate (d. 2008)
- 1936 – Birth of Yuan T. Lee, Taiwanese-born chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1984 – The SETI Institute is founded
- 1998 – The first module of the International Space Station, Zarya, is launched