Portal:History of science/Selected anniversaries/November 15

November 15:

• 1630 – Death of Johannes Kepler, German astronomer and mathematician (b. 1571)

• 1688 – Birth of Louis Bertrand Castel, French mathematician (d. 1757)

• 1793 – Birth of Michel Chasles, French mathematician (d. 1880)

• 1819 – Death of Daniel Rutherford, Scottish chemist and physician (b. 1749)

• 1919 – Death of Alfred Werner, German chemist, Nobel laureate (b. 1866)

• 1959 – Death of Charles Thomson Rees Wilson, Scottish physicist, Nobel laureate (b. 1869)

• 1966 – Gemini program: Gemini 12 splashes down safely in the Atlantic Ocean

• 1967 – The only fatality of the X-15 program occurs during the 191st flight when Air Force test pilot Michael J. Adams loses control of his aircraft which is destroyed mid-air over the Mojave Desert